DIG Journal Club
Now offered as OE-9005 'Principles of Peer Reviewed Literature'
This Optional Enrichment Elective is an interdisciplinary academic student journal club. Medical students will meet one to two times per month to discuss published academic literature. During each meeting, a guest speaker will present on key topics to teach medical students the intricate process of study design, execution, manuscript preparation, peer-review, publication, and article interpretation.
Students will participate in interactive activities to practice scoring and submitting articles. At the end of each session, 2-3 students will each present a published journal article of their choosing to peers and moderate a brief constructive discussion. Through these sessions, students will gain skills to prepare for collaborative involvement in future academic research, presentation, and peer-review contributions.
We hope that this will be an informative and interactive way to learn more about research being done on both a national and institutional level. The journal club is open to any UMass Chan students or students from our sister DIG program at Morehouse School of Medicine. There will be opportunities to share your own research, or to review and present recently published articles for discussion.
Faculty Advisor: Jillian Richmond, PhD
Student leaders 2023-2024: Robert Li, Carolyn Foley, & Grace Hanrahan
Student leaders 2024-2025: Gary Chi & Hanna Choi
To register for the Optional Enrichment Elective, please click the link below