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Journal Club Presentation- Group Assignment Instructions

As we have a 75 minute class period, each group should plan on spending about 35 minutes presenting your paper and facilitating a class discussion.

 Background Information: What is a Journal Club?

A journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in the academic literature. Journal clubs are usually organized around a defined subject in basic or applied research. Typically, each participant can voice their view relating to several questions such as the appropriateness of the research design, the statistics employed, the appropriateness of the controls that were used, etc. There might be an attempt to synthesize the results of several papers, even if some of these results might first appear to contradict each other. Even if the results of the study are seen as valid, there might be a discussion of how useful the results are and if these results might lead to new research or to new applications. Journal clubs are sometimes used in the education of graduate or professional students. These help make the student(s) become more familiar with the advanced literature in their new field of study. In addition, these journal clubs help improve the students’ skills of understanding and debating current topics of active interest in their field. Research laboratories may also organize journal clubs for all researchers in the lab to help them keep up with the literature produced by others who work in their field. Exerted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_club

Usually, during a journal club, the presenters:

1. Note the significance/relevance of the study and describe/summarize the study.
2. Provide a critique of the methods and the design of the study while displaying and reviewing each figure in the paper.
3. Analyze the data.
4. Offer comments on the results and promote discussion of the validity of the data (e.g., statistically significant?).
5. Discuss the interpretations of the study by the authors (e.g., are the conclusions accurate?)
6. Discuss the implications of the study (e.g., how does this study contribute to the current understanding of a topic?)
7. Discuss what additional questions the study raises and how these questions could be addressed (future directions…)