Stony Brook University Department of Anesthesiology
Journal Club
Stony Brook University Department of AnesthesiologyJournal Club |
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| Journal Club is held
monthly July through May. Meetings are held during dinner in nearby
restaurants in a
relaxed atmosphere. All faculty, residents, CRNAs and medical
students/CRNA students rotating through the department are invited to
attend. Journal club is a didactic tool to teach life-long learning skills. It is a way to stay abreast of literature, to learn about the different types of literature and to learn to read the literature with a critical eye. |
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In 2007, we began a new three
year syllabus. In the
first year, we will explore different types of articles and how to
evaluate them. In the second year we will read some of
Anesthesia's
Golden Oldies for perspective, and finally in the third year, we will
turn to current literature. Throughout the year we learn what is newly useful to practice, differences between case reports, observational studies, and randomized controlled trials. We explore the databases of Medline, Cochrane, and Guidelines.gov. Evidence-based practice is followed and study design is examined. |
| We begin
each
Journal Club with a 30 minute session to discuss 1 or 2 papers related
to a topic. Topics include: Case reports One-sided observation studies Descriptive statistics Statistics of Response: curve fitting, correlation and regression Comparitive statistics Historical control papers Randomized Control Trials Current Randomized Control Trials Meta-Analysis Reviews Guidelines and Consensus Documents. A faculty presenter leads the topical discussion. A junior faculty is assigned as leader of the seminar and a resident is assigned as primary responder in seminar. |
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