The Quality of Journal Club Implementation from Perspective of Attending, Resident and Intern Pediatric Students at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in 2015

This study aimed at investigating the quality of implementing journal clubs, one of the classical methods of training, from the viewpoints of faculty members, residents and interns that were selected on different degrees of the department of pediatrics, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences where journal clubs were implemented. The population sample was 60 peoples selected through the census method. Data collection tool was a research-made questionnaire whose reliability (0.85) was verified. Then, data were analyzed by conducting descriptive statistics & ANOVA.  The results showed that the mean of the whole quality of journal clubs implementation was 2.26±0.64 that was “desirable”. Moreover, the highest quality was regarded in the organizing and planning domain (prior to implementation) 2.39±0.68, implementation domain (during implementation) 2.24±0.67 and implementation domain (post implementation) 2.12±0.76 respectively. Although, the differences between one of the groups was less than the other two groups, the difference was not significant statistically (sig=0.055). According to the desired level of quality of journal club at the department of pediatrics, more researches in various medical groups will be highly recommended in order to examine and improve the quality of journal clubs.