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Welcome to the Virtual Journal Club.
If you would like to continue to receive this information on a
monthly basis and are not a member of the SMGO, MGCS, a gyn oncology
fellow or on staff at MSKCC please email: VJC@smgo.org
with "subscribe" in the subject line type or
click here.
You will then continue to receive one issue every month.
If you would
like to unsubscribe and not receive any further issues please send E-mail to the same address
with “unsubscribe” in the subject line or
click here.
This service is being provided free of charge. Please
forward this to anyone who may be interested, as we don’t have
everyone's E-mail address on file. This issue and future issues will be posted on our website at: www.smgo.org/VJC.htm. Each month you will receive an E-mail informing you when the
next issue of the Virtual Journal Club is available. We expect to post the previous month's
articles by the 15th of each month. So what is the Virtual Journal Club (VJC)?
While many practitioners are capable of reading/reviewing a few
journals on a regular basis, it is difficult to review a large number of
journals every month. We
have chosen the ten journals that we feel have the most relevant
information for the practicing gynecologic oncologist.
All issues of these journals are reviewed each month by one of the
clinical fellows at Memorial Hospital.
The articles that appear to be most relevant for the practicing
gynecologic oncologist are selected for inclusion in the monthly issue of
the VJC. Each fellow composes
a two to three sentence summary of the most salient points of the article.
We limit the maximum number of articles to three per journal per
month. Each issue of the VJC
includes the full citation of the article (title, author, source), the two
to three sentence summaries and a link to the abstract on the journal's
home page. If an article
interests you based on the title or summary, simply click on the abstract
link and you will be taken directly to the abstract on the journal's home
page. If you or your
institution has a subscription to that journal, you will then be able to
click on the PDF version of the article and read or print the full
article. While we have chosen
articles we think will be of interest, you decide which
abstracts and/or articles you want to read based upon your own interest. The journals that are surveyed are New England
Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Gynecologic Oncology,
Cancer, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lancet, Cancer
Research, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Journal of the National Cancer
Institute, Journal of the American Medical Association and American
Journal of Surgical Pathology.
Since journals are reviewed each month, the current issue of the
Virtual Journal Club includes relevant articles from the preceding month.
The participants in this program are the active clinical fellows at
Memorial Hospital: Christopher Awtrey, Sarah
Ferguson, Alan Schlaerth, Destin Black, Margrit Juretzka and Eric
Eisenhauer.
While this is intended to cover all articles that may be of
interest, we cannot guarantee that certain articles will be overlooked as
we only survey these ten journals and we limit the distribution to three
articles per journal per month maximum. I
hope you find that this service helps to keep you up to date with the most
current literature of relevance to the practicing gynecologic oncologist. If you have any suggestions, would like to see additional
journals included, have comments, questions or complaints please E-mail us
at: VJC@smgo.org
or click here. Sincerely, Managing Editor October 22, 2002 |