Journal Club

Journal Club is held at least quarterly. This is a formal journal club where all anesthesia residents are expected to participate.

Objectives

To become familiar with current scientific literature

To become familiar with components of a good abstract, introduction, methods results and discussion section of presented articles
To learn about the scientific method and its application to solving a variety of current problems in anesthesia
To develop critical thinking

Selecting 3 articles pertinent to the practice of anesthesia for each journal club
Preparing journal club articles as power point presentations as follows:
- Indicate why a particular article was chosen for discussion
- State scientific background, hypothesis and design of research
- Summary of findings
- Critique of good and bad points pertaining to design, findings and relevance
- How is it relevant to the anesthesia department currently
- Open discussion