New Forum - Journal Club

[dogs4life]

We will be starting a Canine Journal Club sub-forum in the future, where we review peer-reviewed journal articles from the science, psychology, biotech and veterinary fields. I was wondering how many people would like to participate and what type of structure you'd prefer.

We can set this up a number of ways...I'm personally used to the traditional journal club in acedemic settings where someone picks 1 recent article of interest and presents it to the group. Then the group discusses the article in length.

We can also go more like a Case Review type of discussion, where we pick an issue or disease and collect recent peer-reviewed articles to discuss on that topic.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,

Kendra

[dogs4life]

Here's some info to break the ice.....

I use these 2 tools for searching on a regular basis

1. PubMed Home
Instructions for Searching Searching PubMed

2. Google Advanced Scholar Search
Searching Tips Google Scholar


Here's a sample of peer-reviewed journals I like to cruise:

Science/AAAS | Scientific research, news and career information

Nature Publishing Group : science journals, jobs, and information

JVDI -- Table of Contents (November 1 2007, 19 [6])

JWD -- Table of Contents (October 2007, 43 [4])

ScienceDirect - Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Volume 82, Issues 3-4, Pages 167-328 (14 December 2007)

Here are a couple articles on Hemangiopericytoma in Canines to illustrate what types of articles I would pick to review.

1. Treatment of hemangiopericytoma in a dog, using surgical excision, radiation, and a thoracic pedicle skin graft. by Fossum TW, Couto CG, DeHoff WD, Smeak DD. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 1988 Dec 1;193(11):1440-2.

2. Canine hemangiopericytoma: 23 cases (1967-1984). by Graves GM, Bjorling DE, Mahaffey E. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 1988 Jan 1;192(1):99-102.