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Activity Number:
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401
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 15, 2002 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences*
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| Abstract - #301674 |
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Title:
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A Family Practice Journal Club That Emphasizes Active Learning in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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Author(s):
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Stephen Looney*+
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Affiliation(s):
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University of Louisville School of Medicine
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Address:
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MedCenter One, Suite 270, 501 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky, 40202, USA
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Keywords:
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Statistical education ; Evidence-based medicine ; Critical appraisal ; Residency education
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Abstract:
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The journal club for Family Practice residents at the University of Louisville School of Medicine is described. This journal club meets nine times each year as one of the core conferences of the three-year residency program. During Journal Club, the residents receive instruction in the basic concepts of biostatistics and epidemiology, with particular emphasis being placed on critical appraisal of the medical literature. Each fifty-minute session consists of a twenty-minute lecture, followed by an exercise in which the residents are divided into teams and asked to examine some aspect of an article from the medical literature that is related to the lecture material. The teams are then called upon to report their findings to the rest of the class during the fifty-minute period. The residents are tested on the material covered in Journal Club as part of the comprehensive examination they take at the end of each year of their residency. Evaluations of Journal Club by the residents have been mostly positive, and clinical faculty report that Family Practice residents appear to have a good working knowledge of the fundamental concepts of biostatistics and epidemiology.
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