Education Services

Journal Club

The Journal Club of the Institute for Education and Leadership provides an important educational forum for physicians, fellows and other healthcare providers interested in advances in palliative and hospice care. The goal of the Journal Club is continued learning, sharing of ideas about caregiving, and the evaluation of practices that lead to making better decisions for patient care.

Each month, the Journal Club selects, reviews, presents and comments on original research and review articles from current biomedical literature that discuss the cause, course, diagnosis, clinical prediction, prevention, treatment or economics of medical disorders managed by palliative and hospice physicians and related sub-specialists.

Next Journal Club Meeting:

4:30 - 5:30 pm, November 14, 2007

Location: Halquist Memorial Inpatient Center, 4715 N. 15th Street, Arlington, VA 22205

The topic is: Should we be screening for PTSD in our hospice and palliative care patients? The following articles will be discussed:

PTSD in Urban Primary Care: High Prevalence and Low Physician Recognition

Frequency of Mastalgia Among Women Veterans

Articles discussed at previous Journal Club Meetings

The Club meets on the third Wednesday of each month, at which time a Capital Hospice Fellow provides a structured presentation of the selected literature, which is then commented on by clinicians with a high degree of expertise in the topic of the article and who have declared no conflict of interest.

Membership and participation in the Journal Club is open to healthcare providers, academicians and other interested professionals in the Washington DC Metro area.