OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSIT Y
CFR/OSU Pediatrics JOURNAL CLUB
Guidelines for Facilitating and/or Presenting at the CFR/CHS Journal Club
What is the CFR-OSU PEDS Journal Club?
Meetings where members from the Center for Family Resilience and the OSU Department of
Pediatrics come together to critically review an article from the human science scientific literature
for both scientific merit and clinical applicability.
What are the goals of the CFR-OSU PEDS Journal Club?
 To increase participant knowledge regarding topics common to the human and health sciences
 To increase awareness regarding the role of human science within healthcare and the broader
community
 To increase communication across disciplines
 To encourage collaboration
 To generate ideas for interdisciplinary programs and research
Who is the audience for our Journal Club?
 Center for Health Sciences: Medical students, interns, and residents in pediatrics. Faculty
facilitators: Colony Fugate, D.O., Jeremy Jones, D.O.
 College of Human Sciences: Students and faculty from the College of Human Sciences
Faculty facilitators: Dr. Joe Grzywacz, Dr. Amanda Harrist
What types of articles are selected for Journal Club?
 Scholarly articles from the human science literature which address areas of importance to
health science. Articles should have a clinically applicable focus rather than be purely
theoretical.
 Please forward your selected article to Drs. Fugate and Harrist 2 weeks before the meeting.
Journal Club Format:
 When: Journal club meets the forth Wednesday in August, October, January, March and May
from 3:30-5:00
 Where: Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, 1111 West 17th Street, Tulsa,
OK room D107; a GoToMeeting.com link will be provided to OSU faculty and graduate
students in the College of Human Sciences.
 Structure:
Introduction (40 min)
A faculty member from the College of Human Sciences will give a 40 minute lecture or case
based presentation reviewing current knowledge and theories in human science related to the
topic at hand. The objective of this academic exercise is to build a foundation for discussion
and critical review of the scholarly article.
Article Critiques (40 mins)
Discussion and critical review of the scholarly article facilitated by an attending physician and
assigned human science faculty member. Critical review will use the Critical Appraisal Skills
Program Format. http://www.casp-uk.net/#!casp-tools-checklists/c18f8
Clinical Application and Review (5 mins)
A Human Sciences faculty member will provide a formal “wrap-up” session to review the take
home points from the lecture and article review in an effort to emphasize clinical relevance
and promote on-going collaboration.
Prepared by Dr. Colony Fugate and Dr. Amanda Harrist, March 2015