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SUMMARY
A journal
club is a scholastic conference in which a group of persons discuss issued
articles, providing an opportunity for a shared effort to keep up with the
current writings. The emphasis of journal clubs has supposedly shifted over the
years. What was once a setting in which the world's recent literature was
analyzed became a setting for talking over clinical issues raised by the
writings and, most recently, a setup for learning critical reading abilities to
physicians or other associated authorities. Nevertheless, so far there is no
generally accepted definition of journal club, even though this academic method
has been around for more than a century and has evolved basically during this
period. In the present paper, conceptual and applied features of journal club,
especially in developing countries, is surveyed, to discuss an apparent
underrating of journal club in some medical departments, which could be due to
misunderstanding of new philosophies, or to talk about the necessity of
modification of an academic misconduct, which could be attributable to didactic
unawareness.
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