The meeting of the scientific club "Journal Club"

On March 30, 2019 (Saturday), the ninth meeting of the scientific club “Journal Club” took place at the Faculty of Medicine and Health of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, where participants conducted a critical analysis of the scientific publication about the effect of nasogastric probe on swallowing in stroke patients. Acute cerebrovascular accident (stroke) is the most severe vascular disease, after which swallowing disorders (dysphagia) occur in 25 to 32% of cases. Thus, dysphagia is one of the frequent post-stroke disorders. The Journal Club touched upon not only the results of the study presented in the article, but also questions about the analysis of a scientific publication based on identifying the authors' position and the rationale of its facts. Young scientists, reading an article from a peer-reviewed scientific journal, experience difficulties and end up with a desperate desire to change their field of activity to one where there are no scientific articles at all, or they are written differently. In fact, the problem is not in the publications themselves, but in the way we choose and understand them. That is why we need the meetings of the Journal Club, where we acquire the skill of reading scientific publications!

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