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Journal club has been a great tool in facilitating evidence-based practice. The health professions education -journal clubs serve its importance to health professional educators to better inform educational practice. The journal club organized by the International Medical University (IMU) is aimed to promote interprofessional learning and build its community of practice across the faculty. A survey questionnaire was administered to evaluate the content, delivery, organization, and usefulness with a 5-point Likert scale with open-ended free responses to gather feedback on its effectiveness. The descriptive statistical analysis reported a mean score of more than 4 for all four items in the questionnaire. The thematic analysis from the open-ended responses revealed four themes namely, insight and understanding, awareness of the importance and impact of a topic, putting into practice, and sharing of ideas and experiences. The mileage gained from health professions education journal club sessions is valuable to the faculty in supporting their roles and responsibility as health professional educators and in building the desired community of practice.
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Ethics Approval and Consent to Participate
The evaluation form was distributed post-journal club session as part of quality assurance activities for faculty development activities. The evaluation was anonymous and did not interfere with participation in HPE-JC. Permission was sought and received from ICE Director to publish the findings of the evaluation as part of the HPE scholarship of dissemination of knowledge.
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The authors declare that there are no competing interests related to the study.
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We thank IMU HPE-JC facilitators and participants for sharing their experiences during the IMU HPE-JC sessions. We would like to thank the ICE Faculty Development team for organizing the IMU HPE-JC and collecting the evaluation data.
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The authors confirm their contribution to the paper as follows: study conception and design by all authors, Siti Suriani Abd Razak (SSAR), Vishna Devi Nadarajah (VDN), and Bhavani Veasuvalingam(BV).; Quantitative data analysis and interpretation of results by SSAR; Qualitative data analysis and interpretation of results by BV and VDN, draft manuscript preparation by SSAR, BV and VDN. All authors reviewed the final results and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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Abd Razak, S.S., Nadarajah, V.D., Veasuvalingam, B. (2023). Health Professions Education Journal Club: Faculty-Led Initiative in Promoting Community of Practice. In: Claramita, M., Soemantri, D., Hidayah, R.N., Findyartini, A., Samarasekera, D.D. (eds) Character Building and Competence Development in Medical and Health Professions Education. INA-MHPEC 2022. Springer Proceedings in Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4573-3_14
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