How It Works
In each issue of the Annals, the editors select an article or articles and provide discussion questions. We encourage you to take a RADICAL approach to these materials, and to post a summary of your conversation in TRACK, the Annals online discussion. For details, see A, B, and C, below.
A) Discussion Questions
Annals Journal Club discussion questions can be used to stimulate reflection and conversation. In particular, these questions are designed to help journal club participants, a) identify key points addressed by the article, and put them in context, b) discuss the scientific validity of the findings, and c) consider how the findings apply to practice, policy, education or research. The current selection(s) (above) and previous selections (below) include article citation(s), discussion tips, and discussion questions.
B) A RADICAL Approach
We encourage you to take a RADICAL approach to these articles. RADICAL stands for Read, Ask, Discuss, Inquire, Collaborate, Act and Learn. Journal clubs can get RADICAL by adopting these steps:
Read the article critically.
Ask the key questions for yourself.
Discuss the meaning and shared interpretation.
Inquire into other sources of knowledge and insight.
Collaborate with others who know or care about the issues.
Act by sharing an online (TRACK) comment and working to change practice, policy, training, or research.
Learn from what others share online and from your actions and collaborations and re-start the cycle.
C) Online Discussion (TRACK)
The Annals online discussion forum, called TRACK, is a way for you to share insights and conversation themes with other journal clubs and with readers worldwide. After discussing an Annals article in your journal club, we ask you to consider summarizing your conversation in a TRACK comment. (A sample comment is available at: http://www.annfammed.org/content/3/5/400/reply.) This is a unique opportunity for your journal club to be part of a global learning community.
To submit a comment in the online discussion, open the article online and click the link for "TRACK Comments: Submit a response." You may submit a brief, informal comment or a more structured, prepared commentary. Comments may be as short as one sentence and usually do not exceed 400 words and up to 5 references. Prepared comments would be appropriate to cite in your CV.
We highlight commonalities or uniquely important ideas from the online discussion in a regular editorial feature called On TRACK. Online comments submitted within two weeks after publication of an issue of Annals of Family Medicine will have the greatest chance of being referenced in On TRACK.
Resources
- About the Annals Journal Club
- Bibliography (Extensive references about journal clubs and how to read and evaluate medical literature)
Previous Selections
- Nov/Dec 2011: Saying Good-bye to Practice and Patients
- Sep/Oct 2011: Patients' Reasons for Not Disclosing Depression
- Jul/Aug 2011: Nonspecific Abdominal Pain in Children
- May/Jun 2011: A Patient-Physician Journey
- Mar/Apr 2011: Guided Care
- Jan/Feb 2011: Symbiosis Instead of Competing Demands: A Tale of 2 Preventive Services
- Nov/Dec 2010: Mitigating the Effects of Discontinuity
- Sep/Oct 2010: The Capability Framework
- Jul/Aug 2010: Guided Care
- May/Jun 2010: Causes of Dizziness in the Elderly
- Mar/Apr 2010: Point-of-Care C-Reactive Protein to Assist Antibiotic Prescribing for Respiratory Tract Infections
- Jan/Feb 2010: Steroids to Reduce Pain in Acute Pharyngitis
- Nov/Dec 2009: Medical Assistants' Role in Improving Preventive and Chronic Illness Care
- Sep/Oct 2009: The 'Yield' of Targeted Screening for Type 2 Diabetes
- Jul/Aug 2009: Symbiosis Instead of Competing Demands: A Tale of 2 Preventive Services
- May/Jun 2009: A Dirty Little Secret Revealed: The Downside of Screening Tests
- Mar/Apr 2009: The Decline of Maternity Care in Family Medicine
- Jan/Feb 2009: Symbiosis Instead of Competing Demands: A Tale of Two Preventive Services
- Nov/Dec 2008: The Course of Fatigue
- Sep/Oct 2008: Mortality from White Coat vs Sustained Hypertension
- Jul/Aug 2008: Hospital Care
- May/Jun 2008: Identity, Beliefs, and the Patient-Physician Relationship
- Mar/Apr 2008: Balint Groups and 'The Joy of Being a Doctor'
- Jan/Feb 2008: Pedometers for Promoting Walking and Weight Loss
- Nov/Dec 2007: Exemplars in Reducing No-Shows and Maximizing Volume
- Sep/Oct 2007: Novel Staffing for Improved Patient Disease Management
- Jul/Aug 2007: Challenges in Counseling Adolescents about HPV Vaccine
- May/Jun 2007: Acanthosis Nigricans and Diabetes Risk Factors
- Mar/Apr 2007: The Art of Family Medicine
- Jan/Feb 2007: Diagnosis of Deep Venous Thrombosis
- Nov/Dec 2006: Antibiotics for Common Respiratory Infections
- Sep/Oct 2006: Hot Flashes & Other Sleep Disorders
- Jul/Aug 2006: Implementing the Chronic Care Model
- May/June 2006: Annals Journal Club: A RADICAL Approach
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