Journal club: A tool to update skills

The way of learning and upgrading knowledge, skills has been changed. Nowadays, efforts have been shifted from single handed learning process to group learning process with an advantage that one can critically analyze, discuss, and upgrade with the knowledge and advancements in their fields. “Journal Club” word itself explains that a group of people gather regularly to discuss, and critically evaluate the recent advancements and researches in medical and dental education. Periodic evaluation of the conference and the institution of appropriate changes ensure that the journal club remains a valuable and successful part of the training program. Goal of almost all journal clubs in training programs is to keep residents up to date on the literature; the importance of this goal varies between programs. A clinician describes a clinical problem at the end of one journal club meeting. At the next journal club, some systematic reviews are presented on that subject and the evidence is evaluated.