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And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 122. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane.

And I'm Dr. Patel. And the title of today's episode is,

the first rule of journal club is that we don't talk about journal club. Today we're talking about

basically from a student perspective, how to excel in your next journal club presentation or

discussion, all while avoiding some of those all too common pitfalls that Dr. Patel and I commonly see in students when they do present on their P4 appy rotations.

So as you said, Dr. Kane, you know, as api preceptors, we have these students with us, you know, who do journal clubs.

And really, you know, these general clubs are something that we learn off of two.

So we want A, to make this a very good learning experience for everyone, but make students

successful as well.

So in this episode today, we're hoping to kind of focus on, you know, what makes you

looks like a superstar when you're presenting your journal club and kind of some of the

common pitfalls to avoid

that every preceptor or even the audience member who attend would want you to avoid.

And Dr. Patel, I'll be honest with you, you know, the word journal club, depending on what

hospital system you're in, sometimes is almost a dirty word because it's synonymous with

a student generating a four-page word document and reading

every word off of it that summarizes another article. You know, historically, I used to bring coffee

to these journal clubs that I'd attend because they would get so boring because the student would

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