The overall goal of this curriculum is to teach residents to develop the necessary skills to critically assess medical journal articles as they relate to the practice of internal medicine. Discussions and presentations related to critical assessment of the medical literature are presented in informal discussions during Journal Club activities, and more formally presented in lecture format through the Epidemiology and Research Curricula of the noon core conferences.
Attendance is required at core conferences dealing with epidemiology topics.
Periodically the curriculum is evaluated from feedback of trainees informally and formally. Periodic review of curriculum is done by faculty incorporating residents' evaluations. Users' guides to the medical literature. Users' guides to the medical literature. I. How to get started.