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A journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent
articles in scientific literature. It is a part of postgraduate medical education aimed at
improving the skills of critically appraising the journal articles. Critical appraisal is the
process of systematically examining research evidence to assess it’s validity and applicability
for a particular problem or situation by paying more attention to the methods than the
author’s conclusion.
Article Selection
Unless you are given a specific topic or article to appraise, you can follow the general
guidelines outlined below:
1. Choose a recently published article, dealing with the problems commonly
encountered and that you are interested in (you can use google scholar to search articles
and display those published within certain years)
2. Give priority to original articles over systematic review or meta-analysis
3. Try to select article from a journal with a good impact factor or those that belong to
specific medical societies