Current Journal Club Selection(s)
Resources
Previous Journal Club Selections
Welcome to the Annals Journal Club
The Annals Journal Club is designed to develop a learning community of those seeking to improve health care and health through enhanced primary care. It is a forum where people who care can meet, share, learn and create change.
Current Selection(s)
May/Jun 2008
How It Works
In each issue of the Annals, the editors select an article or articles and provide discussion questions. We encourage you to take a RADICAL approach to these materials, and to post a summary of your conversation in TRACK, the Annals online discussion. For details, see A, B, and C, below.
A) Discussion Questions
Annals discussion questions can be used to stimulate reflection and conversation. In particular, these questions are designed to help journal club participants, a) identify key points addressed by the article, and put them in context, b) discuss the scientific validity of the findings, and c) consider how the findings apply to practice, policy, education or research. The current selection(s) (above) and previous selections (below) include article citation(s), discussion tips, and discussion questions.
B) A RADICAL Approach
We encourage you to take a RADICAL approach to these articles. RADICAL stands for Read, Ask, Discuss, Inquire, Collaborate, Act and Learn. Journal clubs can get RADICAL by adopting these steps:
Read the article critically.
Ask the key questions for yourself.
Discuss the meaning and shared interpretation.
Inquire into other sources of knowledge and insight.
Collaborate with others who know or care about the issues.
Act by sharing an online (TRACK) comment and working to change practice, policy, training, or research.
Learn from what others share online and from your actions and collaborations and re-start the cycle.
C) Online Discussion (TRACK)
The Annals online discussion forum, called TRACK, is a way for you to share insights and conversation themes with other journal clubs and with readers worldwide. After discussing an Annals article in your journal club, we ask you to consider summarizing your conversation in a TRACK comment. (A sample comment is available at: http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/eletters/3/5/400#3572.) This is a unique opportunity for your journal club to be part of a global learning community.
To submit a comment in the online discussion, open the article online and click the link for "TRACK Comments: Submit a response." You may submit a brief, informal comment or a more structured, prepared commentary. Comments may be as short as one sentence and usually do not exceed 400 words and up to 5 references. Prepared comments would be appropriate to cite in your CV.
We highlight commonalities or uniquely important ideas from the online discussion in a regular editorial feature called On TRACK. Online comments submitted within three weeks after publication of an issue of Annals will have the greatest chance of being referenced in On TRACK.
Resources
Previous Selections
Mar/Apr 2008
Jan/Feb 2008
Nov/Dec 2007
Sep/Oct 2007
Jul/Aug 2007
May/Jun 2007
Mar/Apr 2007
Jan/Feb 2007
Nov/Dec 2006
Sep/Oct 2006
Jul/Aug 2006
May/June 2006
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