JournalReview.org
Encyclopedia
JournalReview.org is an online interdisciplinary journal club
. It hosts an international community of doctors and exists for the purpose of facilitating critical discussion and post publication peer review of all medical literature indexed by the National Library of Medicine
in PubMed
. It is part of the movement towards open peer review
, telemedicine
, and self-archiving
/open access
-based and consists of commentary and discussion related to published medical literature
.
Members can participate individually, or by creating their own "journal club
s" - collections of members who are actively participating in discussion of mutual interest. Some residency training programs have adopted this resource to meet ACGME requirements. Members have utilized this resource to suggest future research, and to identify bias
or limitations to published work. Educators have utilized this resource to help stimulate and document critical discussion of assigned journal articles. Authors have utilized this resource to answer questions about and provide supplement to their published work. This resource has also been utilized by the public as a vehicle to better understand published trade literature.
Members consists of all the major specialties as well areas of basic science. Approximately 7,000 doctors, health care professionals, researchers, residency training programs, and students from all over the world participate. It is listed as a recommended resources by the New York Public Library
, the Dalhousie University
College of Pharmacy, the State University of New York
Downstate Medical Library, as well as several other related websites.
Journal club
A journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in scientific literature. Journal clubs are usually organized around a defined subject in basic or applied research. For example, the application of evidence-based medicine to some area of medical...
. It hosts an international community of doctors and exists for the purpose of facilitating critical discussion and post publication peer review of all medical literature indexed by the National Library of Medicine
United States National Library of Medicine
The United States National Library of Medicine , operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is a division of the National Institutes of Health...
in PubMed
PubMed
PubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system...
. It is part of the movement towards open peer review
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
, telemedicine
Telemedicine
Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. It helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities...
, and self-archiving
Self-archiving
To self-archive is to deposit a free copy of a digital document on the World Wide Web in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer-reviewed research journal and conference articles as well as theses, deposited in the author's own institutional...
/open access
Contents
It is webWorld Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
-based and consists of commentary and discussion related to published medical literature
Medical literature
Medical literature refers to articles in journals and texts in books devoted to the field of medicine.Contemporary and historic views regarding diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of medical conditions have been documented for thousands of years. The Edwin Smith papyrus is the first known medical...
.
Members can participate individually, or by creating their own "journal club
Journal club
A journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in scientific literature. Journal clubs are usually organized around a defined subject in basic or applied research. For example, the application of evidence-based medicine to some area of medical...
s" - collections of members who are actively participating in discussion of mutual interest. Some residency training programs have adopted this resource to meet ACGME requirements. Members have utilized this resource to suggest future research, and to identify bias
Bias
Bias is an inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of alternatives. Bias can come in many forms.-In judgement and decision making:...
or limitations to published work. Educators have utilized this resource to help stimulate and document critical discussion of assigned journal articles. Authors have utilized this resource to answer questions about and provide supplement to their published work. This resource has also been utilized by the public as a vehicle to better understand published trade literature.
Members consists of all the major specialties as well areas of basic science. Approximately 7,000 doctors, health care professionals, researchers, residency training programs, and students from all over the world participate. It is listed as a recommended resources by the New York Public Library
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...
, the Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University is a public research university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university comprises eleven faculties including Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. It also includes the faculties of architecture, planning and engineering located at...
College of Pharmacy, the State University of New York
State University of New York
The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY , is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States, with a total enrollment of 465,000 students, plus...
Downstate Medical Library, as well as several other related websites.