Do community medicine residency trainees learn through journal club? An experience from a developing country.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Journal clubs are an internationally recognized teaching tool in many postgraduate medical education fields. In developing countries lack of funds for current print materials may have limited journal club use. But with advancing information technology trainees in developing countries increasingly have more access to high quality journals online. However, we are aware of no studies describing journal club existence and effectiveness in postgraduate medical training in Pakistan. Also we have found no published effectiveness studies of this teaching modality in Community Medicine (Public Health) in any country. This study evaluated the effectiveness of Community Medicine (Public Health) Resident Journal Club (CMR-JC) in Aga Khan University, Pakistan using international crit

SUBMITTER: Akhund S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1564014 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature