Greetings all,

We are kicking off our new Journal Club, as a part of the Elizabeth Kenny McCann (EKM) Educational Scholarship activities this year. All faculty and students are welcome. The first one will be on March the 19th between 12:00 and 12:50 in room T206 at the School of Nursing. Everyone is welcome and there will be refreshments, but bring your own lunch. If you haven’t experienced a journal club before the format is pretty straightforward. Each month we will select a paper for discussion that will be forwarded to all two weeks before the meeting. At the meeting we will discuss the merits (or otherwise) of the ideas expressed in the paper, and their implications for our educational practice.

At the first meeting we will discuss the thorny issue of the use of Wikipedia as a source in academic writing. The paper I have selected is the following and is available full-text from the UBC library:

Haigh C.A. (2011) Wikipedia as an evidence source for nursing and healthcare students. Nurse Education Today, 31 (2) 135–13

The following links should also access the paper when on-site or remotely using the library EZProxy.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260691710000924
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=3c05a4d4-02fb-4376-ac22-df87b9c87ac1%40sessionmgr115&vid=4&hid=126

If you are coming to the journal club (or can’t make it, but wish to join the club) please e-mail our Journal Club Coordinator, Allana Hearn (allana.hearn@alumni.ubc.ca) so we have a sense of numbers and can order appropriate coffee and cookies! We will be following up the discussion on our new blog (see below), so, even if you can’t attend, but have something you would like to add to the discussion, you can.

We also have an EKM Twitter Feed at: @TeachingNursing

Just click on the logo on the right access this to follow us. We look forward to seeing you at the club or online!

Thanks and regards
Bernie Garrett