“Rethinking Medical Journal Club”

One of the earliest medical journal club references is credited to Cushing’s description of Osler’s first formal journal club held in 1875 while at McGill: “for the purchase and distribution of periodicals to which he could ill afford to subscribe as an individual.”1 Over the ensuing decades, the goals and nature of these collegial meetings have evolved and went on to gain wide professional acceptance, especially within teaching programs, serving as venues of knowledge discovery and its dissemination.