Journal & group assignments, March-May review cycle

[Michael Dean Brunelle]

In the past week, all students interested in participating in the March-May review cycle should have received individual notifications of their primary journal assignments based on self-declared preferences.  The purpose of this message is to provide more complete contact information and suggestions for how to proceed with making contact with other students and faculty mentors in the Primary Care Journal Club. 

During the December-February review cycle, several journals were split between multiple small groups and physician mentors.  For the March-May review cycle, a single student is designated as the primary reviewer for each journal.  It is the primary student reviewer's responsibility to ensure that POEMs from their designated journal(s) are somehow brought to the attention of the larger group (e.g. through this e-mail list, the journal's page on the Google Groups website, etc).  

Later in this message, you will see names and e-mail addresses of physician mentors listed above groups of journal titles & associated student reviewers.  The physician mentors have generously volunteered to help students through the process of reviewing scholarly publications with an eye toward relevance to primary care practice; they are not responsible for coordinating small group meetings or sharing POEMs - these are student responsibilities.  Students, please e-mail your physician mentors and small group members ASAP to introduce yourselves and determine workable meeting times/places (I'd also like to throw in a quick plug for timebridge.com as a great group scheduling tool, esp for those who keep track of free/busy time in Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar, etc).

The students listed below a particular physician's name should consider themselves to be part of the same small group, but small group meetings do not necessarily need to be limited to the 3 or 4 students in the same group.  Unless your group explicitly decides otherwise, only primary reviewers will be expected to have read over current issues of a particular journal before small group meetings.  Therefore, an individual student can hypothetically attend any small group meeting, report on their findings, and get similar support and feedback from other students and faculty members (or even sit in on other meetings for which they have no primary responsibility for journal tracking).  

While we do recommend meeting regularly with the same small groups throughout a review cycle, we don't want to introduce limitations that might prevent better group structures from emerging.  For example, Dr. Patrick has suggested that a group of 6-10 students might provide a more lively dynamic than a smaller group of students, and that she would be open to combining meetings with another faculty mentor (esp. between 3-5pm on Thursdays). 

Please feel free to use this e-mail list and/or the editable pages on the Google Groups site (http://groups.google.com/group/primary-care-lit/web) to coordinate and announce small group meetings.   We'll plan to meet again as a large group sometime shortly after the M1 & M2 spring breaks, so please plan to be up to date with reviews of articles published in March by the second week of April.    I'll check in with each small group in a few weeks to see how things are going, but please feel free to e-mail me (brun...@md.northwestern.edu), Dr. Loafman (m-lo...@northwestern.edu), and/or this e-mail list (primary-...@googlegroups.com) at any time with questions, concerns, or suggestions. 

Finally, anyone interested in pursuing a review assignment not explicitly listed below (e.g. anyone who wanted to review two journals but received only a single assignment) should contact the primary student reviewer of any journal of interest to coordinate readings, meetings, etc. 

Thank you all for your continued interest and support,
MDB


PRIMARY REVIEWERS & MENTOR/GROUP ASSIGNMENTS, MARCH-MAY 2010:

Mentor: Deborah Edberg, MD  (ded...@eriefamilyhealth.org)
Journal of the American Board of Family Practice - Michael Brunelle (brun...@md.northwestern.edu)
Obstetrics &  Gynecology - [no primary reviewer; contact brun...@md.northwestern.edu to volunteer]
Preventative Medicine - Ran Li (ran...@northwestern.edu)

Mentor: Thomas S. Halligan, MD, MPH  (thal...@eriefamilyhealth.org)
Gastroenterology - [no primary reviewer; contact brun...@md.northwestern.edu to volunteer]
Journal of General Internal Medicine - Andrew Su (a-...@northwestern.edu)
NEJM - Clark Van Den Berghe (c-be...@northwestern.edu)

Mentor: Mark Loafman, MD, MPH (mloa...@nahospital.org)
Archives of Internal Medicine - Laura Phillips (lauraann...@gmail.com)
JAMA - Tony Ljuldjuraj (t-ljul...@northwestern.edu)
Journal of the American College of Cardiology - David Pavkovich (dspav...@gmail.com)

Mentor: Gail Patrick, MD, MPP  (gpat...@eriefamilyhealth.org)
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Julian Klosowiak (j-klo...@md.northwestern.edu)
Lancet - Anaar Siletz (anaar...@gmail.com)
Pediatrics - Ken Stern (k-s...@md.northwestern.edu)

Mentor: Amy L. Schroeder, MD  (aschr...@eriefamilyhealth.org)
Annals of Internal Medicine - Candace Gragnani (cgra...@gmail.com)
BMJ - Ryan Kozlowski (r-koz...@northwestern.edu) / Marc Lim (marcl...@u.northwestern.edu)
Journal of Pediatrics - Candace Gragnani (cgra...@gmail.com)

Mentor: T.J. Staff, MD, MPH  (tst...@pccwellness.org)
Journal of Family Practice - Michael Brunelle (brun...@md.northwestern.edu)
American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Danielle Thomas (daniellem...@gmail.com)
Annals of Emergency Medicine - Thea Sakata (t-sa...@md.northwestern.edu)


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Michael Dean Brunelle, MSLIS
M.D. candidate, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
brun...@md.northwestern.edu                     phone: 773-733-0713

"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time.  
But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine,
then let us work together." --Lilla Watson
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