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2 Weeks
Language
English Slide, Arabic Speaking
Open
2024
Overview
Overview
Journal Club Presentations Course
| What You Will Get Every Week (Lesson Planning) | |||
| Online Lesson | Workshop / Project | Mentor Support | Reviewer |
| (2-3 Hours) per week | (60 Minutes) per week | Every week |
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How to Organize, Lead, and Participate Well
What is a journal club?
- A scientific journal club is a dedicated meeting where researchers gather to discuss publications from peer-reviewed journals.
- These meetings help researchers keep up with current findings, exercise their critical thinking skills, and improve their presentation and debate abilities.
- In a well-run journal club, participants engage in lively discussions, while critically and honestly evaluating a study’s strengths and weaknesses.
- They take away insights on what to do—and what not to do—in their own work. They feel inspired by new findings and walk away with ideas for their own research.
- On the contrary, ineffective journal clubs lack active participation.
- There may be a fear of openly voicing thoughts and opinions, or attendees may just be there for the free refreshments.
- In the end, the attendees take away nothing useful and think it’s a waste of time.
- Whether you’re an organiser or a participant, follow these tips to run and lead a successful journal club, and to create engaging journal club presentations.
Scientific Journal Club Course Chapters
Journal Club Week 1
- Part 1: Journal Review
- Part 2: Journal Club
- Part 3: Cochrane Collaboration
- Part 4: Journal Club Grading
- Part 5: Ten Tips for Scientific Journal Clubs: How to Organize, Lead, and Participate Well
Journal Club Week 2
- Oncology
- Anticoagulant Reversal
- Nephrology
- Nephrology and Dialysis
- Chronic Constipation
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Community Acquired Pneumonia
- Asthma
Journal Club Week 3
- Final Project – Journal Club Grading
Ten Tips for Scientific Journal Clubs:
1. Make It a Routine
- Schedule the journal club at a recurring time and location, so that it becomes a regular part of everyone’s schedule.
- Choose a time that will be the least disruptive to everyone’s experiments. Perhaps host it during lunchtime and invite people to eat while the presenter is speaking.
- Or perhaps host it in late afternoon with coffee and snacks provided.
2. Designate a Leader
- A designated leader(s) who can take ownership of running the journal club will contribute tremendously to its success.
- The responsibilities of a leader may include organising the journal club and facilitating the meeting (e.g., starting and ending meetings on time, making speaker introductions and announcements, and moderating discussions).
- Skilled journal club leaders make it safe for members to openly voice their thoughts and opinions.
- They work to generate excitement and encourage active participation.
- Additionally, they provide opportunities for members to join them in organising and leading the journal club.
- Great leaders inspire personal and professional growth in others within their journal club community.
3. Get Organized
Staying organized is key to running a successful journal club. Here are some ways that can help you organize a journal club:
- Set a consistent format and make sure members are aware of it.
- Create and share schedules so participants know it’s their turn to present, facilitate, pre-read, or provide refreshments.
- Develop a communication rhythm to make sure announcements and reminders are sent out in a timely manner.
- Provide guidelines and/or a template for presenters.
- Bring attendance sheets to track member turnouts. Depending on the institute, keeping track of attendance can help with budget requests and approvals.
- Provide feedback forms to the audience to help identify areas for improvement.
4. Pre-Read Papers
- Pre-reading is a great way to ensure that you have sufficient background information to participate in journal club discussions. In an ideal world, everyone in the journal club will read the paper prior to the meeting.
- But due to the high demands of research, members may not have the time to pre-read before every single meeting.
5. Build a Community
- Journal club organizers and leaders should aim to create a community where the members feel safe enough to share their thoughts and ask questions.
- Fostering community encourages active participation and the exchange of ideas, and can increase participant satisfaction and collaborations.
6. Choose Relevant Papers
- Consider the composition of your journal club community when choosing a paper.
- A journal club may have a broad group of researchers (e.g., a general immunology journal club), or it may only involve one or two labs specifically working on immune tolerance or a particular immune cell type. Papers discussed should be be on topics relevant to the participants’ research areas so that they remain interested.
7. Make Engaging Presentations
- You’ve likely suffered through boring lectures with text-heavy slides, or a monotonous presentation.
- How can this be avoided in your journal club?
8. Keep It Exciting
Break out of the routine once in a while to keep the journal club fresh and exciting. For example, you could invite external speakers to your journal club:
- Invite a visiting scientist to present their work.
- Ask a biotech company to present their technologies.
- Find a speaker who can discuss scientific careers.
- Ask a science communication expert to give tips.
9. Look for Ways to Improve
- You’ve taken the first step towards improving your journal club by reading this article, but improvement is a continual process.
- What does your journal club community think? Perform regular audits of the journal club by asking for feedback every few months. Distribute feedback forms that attendees can fill out at the end of a journal club meeting.
10. Make Time for It
- Understandably, the demands of research can prevent you from making the choice to take on this additional task of leading or participating in a journal club.
- Adopt smart practices so you can use your time more efficiently. Working smart will help free up your time for other beneficial activities, including journal clubs.
- One of the ways to work smarter is to make the switch to more efficient technologies that can help you get your results in less time.
- For example, you can switch to a smarter way to isolate cells.
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Curriculum
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Week 1
- Journal Review
- Journal Club
- Cochrane Collaboration
- Journal Club Grading
- Ten Tips for Scientific Journal Clubs
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Week 2
- Oncology
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Nephrology
- Nephrology and Dialysis
- Chronic Constipation
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Community Acquired Pneumonia
- Asthma
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Week 3
- Final Project
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Your Certificate
- And Finally, Your Certificate…
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