A Journal Club Guide to GEMLR
GEMLR is an excellent resource for use in journal club. Here is a guide to making the best use of GEMLR in three easy steps
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Choose 1 of the 3 types of articles to review
Emergency Medicine Development, Emergency Care in Resource-Limited Settings, and Disaster and Humanitarian Relief. For the first journal club, we recommend selecting the category that is most applicable to projects with which your fellowship/residency is currently involved. Alternatively, you may select 1 article from each section to provide an overview of the material available.
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For each journal club, select 3 articles to review.
Articles that have been reviewed the past several years are listed here: http://www.gemlr.org/top-articles.html
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For each article, discuss the following
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What are the take-home learning points from the article?
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Were there unforeseen challenges while conducting this research?
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Did the authors experience any ethical dilemmas while conducting the research? Were there ethical issues encountered that were not discussed by the authors?
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Are the findings from this article generalizable? (i.e. can they be applied to other environments)
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What would you change to improve the research/project discussed?
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Is the work discussed in the article similar to work your residency/fellowship is doing? If so, how can you use the lessons learned by the researchers to change your current projects?
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