News in Medicine - JOURNAL CLUB
Charles University First Faculty of Medicine
HOW TO GET CREDIT : credit for this course will be obtained by September 2021. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis, in order to receive credit for this course, you must be enrolled, and you must participate actively in the online discussions and post your recorded presentation for all students to read and comment and post specific questions. All course meetings are recorded and if you are logged in, and participate, and complete the recorded presentation, you will receive credit.
Goal : Develop skills in critical literature and verbally presenting the findings of our patients and new clinical research.
Objectives :
- Develop oral communication skills by presenting patient reviews and timely articles from the primary literature.
- Prepare and deliver an oral presentation, summarize and critically evaluate a research article.
- Assessment of soundness of research methods and study design.
- Evaluate the presentation and analysis of data.
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of the study.
Format :
1. Prepare 1 to 2-page typewritten outline of your presentation to guide the discussion:
Patient Case Review:
Journal Article Reference
Introduction
- Study objective
- Justification for study
Methods
- Research design
- Inclusion / exclusion criteria
- Treatment protocol
- Statistical tests
Results
- Results of the study - in simple medical terms
- How to treat your patient case review
Discussion (guided by faculty / group discussion)
Guidelines:
- The presentation should be ~ 8-12 minutes with an additional time for posting of questions and comments.
- Be sure the title of the article, authors, journal name, and issue.
- The authors' conclusion and be able to defend or dispute these conclusions. Discuss future implications for clinical practice.
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of the study. Suggest improvements if possible.
- Possibly provide conclusions independent of the authors' conclusions.
*** PLEASE FIND THE LINK FOR THE COURSE HERE: https://el.lf1.cuni.cz/r3z7fel9888
You should be reading this post if you are interested in or registered for the 'News in Medicine - Journal Club' elective course.
First, please be sure to access the Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGPupoTU---zOqbkMA8lvg5o4FMi4GcG?usp=sharing with resources for the course, these online areas will also be where students exchange information about the course, journal articles and individual presentations. Students must read the papers in the journal article review and PRIOR basics of the first learning session.
The links are here:
Google Docs: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGPupoTU---zOqbkMA8lvg5o4FMi4GcG?usp=sharing
The information in both folders should be identical, please report any irregularities or if you can not access them to me (john.quinn@lf1.cuni.cz or +420608246032).
Meetings :
General Session I : October 26th 2020 at 19:00: introduction to course and requirements for obtaining credit. Hit this link to the course: https://el.lf1.cuni.cz/r3z7fel9888 (link not working, must postpone course start)
General Session II : November 2020
General Session III : January 2021
General Session IV : March 2021
General Session V : May 2021
Special Session X: Global Health Forum in Prague: November 2021 (dates TBA)
Credit will be offered.
After making sure you have access to Google Docs, please try Adobe Connect: https://el.lf1.cuni.cz/nim2019_2020/
Course platform these links are where the online meetings will take place.
Please also find updates throughout the year on Facebook, LinkedIn and MedSoc pages (under construction) and on the website link above at the top of this email. Looking forward to meeting you all on the online platform!
Some valuable resources for the course (also see attachments in Google Docs Folder):
http://www.lf1.cuni.cz/vyukovy-portal-mefanet-1lf-uk and http://portal.lf1.cuni.cz/index-en.php
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