The moment I hit send I spot a big pile of stuff about running journal clubs I gathered a while ago some of which is relevant!
A nice leaflet by Uni Hospitals Cov & Warwickshire “In the know: Setting up and running a Journal club” which has a nice one page run through which supports a general intro to Critical Appraisal in this context (I had a quick look and did
not find it on their website anymore). Perhaps they might dig it out and share?
Brighton and Sussex LKS also published a Journal Club tips and Tools with a four step process
Step 1 – Identify the clinical question, topic or general subject area
Step 2 – discuss the research methodology / design
Step 3 – summarise the outcomes / results
Step 4 – draw points from the discussion / conclusions
Again I failed to turn this up.
I have a number of other Journal Club handbooks that I must have culled from the web at some point (One by Sarah Massey & Dr Charlotte Elder) at Sheffield Children’s and also one by Ann Daly & Dr Amer Raza at Birmingham Women’s) – I suspect
there must be others about!
So in essence I clearly started thinking about this a few years ago and there are interesting things to be found for those who search.
Cheers
Alan
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Subject: Re: 15 minute critical appraisal refresher for journal club
Hello all,
Lots of interest in this question!
Idea from Louise Wann
“I haven’t done this myself, but perhaps you could base your fifteen minute refresher around the three R’s of critical appraisal i.e. Rigour, Results and Relevance.
I didn’t’ come up with the three R’s myself, but I do use them to highlight the focus points for critical appraisal. If you do decide to use it by happy coincidence you would have five minutes per R which might work nicely
for timing.”
Tom Edge – NB the first two resources are not freely available I am afraid.
- “Why is CA relevant to them? (5 mins)
- CASP checklists are useful tools for doing CA on different types of research and can easily be accessed from their website (5 mins)
- Signpost to further sources of support (5 mins)
- Critical
Appraisal of Evidence – an introductory online presentation on critical appraisal (staff will be prompted to register with the Learning Hub before they can access this)
- How to Read a
Paper – a video resource introducing a model for a reading a scientific paper and applying this to an example paper (again, requires registration with the Learning Hub)
- Critical
Appraisal Library Guide for NHS staff – a page we’ve put together in Library Services, highlighting some useful resources and services related to critical appraisal
- We also run a series of sign-up sessions for NHS staff at GSTT and KCH, including a session on Introduction to Critical Appraisal of Quantitative Research. You can sign up at
http://libguides.kcl.ac.uk/NHS/training.”
Sam Burgess
“Flipped classroom technique? Get them to do the work before hand – online learning or something?”
(sadly this had already been rejected as a plan!)
Helen Weir shared the attached slide deck for a Gastro Journal Club which gives a quick intro and then uses the CASP checklist. She was going on to actually do the Journal Club which is slightly different
to my situation but really helpful to see the approach!
“Cheery overview of what critical appraisal is, & where my group could find resources to help, before looking at a paper relevant to their subject area.”
I am going to draw on inspiration from Helen to have a little bit on library basics and then I am going to use CASP questions for a quick run through of thins to think about.
Cheers
Alan
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Subject: 15 minute critical appraisal refresher for journal club
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone had a plan for a 15 minute critical appraisal refresh for people restarting a journal club that they would be willing to share?
I was wondering about something structured around a CASP checklist but would be interested in ideas of how people would tackle this?
Not even at my speedy pace could I cover much of the regular session in that time frame!
Thanks
Alan
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