TY - JOUR T1 - Use of family practice journals in Journal Clubs: a study from the Middle East JF - BJGP Open JO - Br J Gen Pract Open DO - 10.3399/bjgpopen17X100953 SP - BJGP-2017-0953 AU - Basem Saab AU - Rim Taleb AU - Adel Al Bari AU - Hashim Al-Sayed AU - Issam Shaarani Y1 - 2017/05/16 UR - http://bjgpopen.org/content/early/2017/05/12/bjgpopen17X100953.abstract N2 - A journal club is a common educational activity that is used to teach residents skills in practicing evidence-based medicine.1 It is said that Sir William Osler introduced a journal club in 1875 to McGill University,2,3 but others think it was started earlier in England and Germany.4 Several bodies highlight the importance of appraising research critically for medical training.2,4We have noticed that most of the time family medicine residents in our programmes use journals from other specialties in our journal club and, to the best of our knowledge, there is no information available on the journals that they generally use for this activity. We conducted a survey to explore whether residents in four programmes in the Middle East (Bahrain, Lebanon, Oman, and Qatar) are aware of and consider major family practice journals while preparing for their journal club presentations.All family medicine residents who present in the journal … ER -