Journal Club

During this series, you’ll travel to Buffalo once a month to participate in case-based presentations led by residents and related discussions led by our clinical and research faculty.

Though Journal Club favors a lecture style, presenters encourage participation from junior residents by using break-out sessions and providing worksheets to help participants analyze the article.

In addition to monthly Journal Club in Buffalo, you’ll attend Journal Club quarterly in Olean. At least once a year, we expect each second- and third-year resident in our program to lead these sessions by formulating a case-based clinical question, presenting an article that answers it and appraising the article.

Past Journal Club discussions have covered such topics as:

• statin use and risk of diabetes in postmenopausal women
• a “wait-and-see” prescription for the treatment of acute otitis media
• walking as an intervention for low back pain
• azithromycin for prevention of COPD exacerbations
• laparoscopic gastric banding to prevent Type 2 diabetes
• antenatal thyroid screening and childhood cognitive function

Monthly in Buffalo; quarterly in Olean