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Your brain on ChatGPT – one for the journal club!

The researchers coined the term "cognitive debt" to describe how LLMs spare the user mental effort in the short term but generate long-term costs including diminished critical thinking, reduced creativity and independent thought, increased vulnerability to bias and manipulation, and shallow information
23 July 2025
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The Twitter GP Journal Club relaunch #gpjc

In 2011, a Cambridge medical student and a foundation programme doctor working in the West Midlands founded the first ever Twitter journal club (@twitjournalclub/#twitjc). Within weeks they had close to a thousand followers. There are now 59 journal club Twitter hashtags, although
1 August 2018
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GP Journal Club – April 2016

The April GP Journal Club is now on Storify. The paper discussed was: Lorgeril M, Rabaeus M. Beyond confusion and controversy, can we evaluate the real efficacy and safety of cholesterol-lowering with statins? JCBMR 2016;1(1):67 The next GP Journal Club will be
12 April 2016
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GP Journal Club – Sunday 10th April at 8pm

The next GP Journal Club will be discussing the paper: Lorgeril M, Rabaeus M. Beyond confusion and controversy, can we evaluate the real efficacy and safety of cholesterol-lowering with statins? JCBMR 2016;1(1):67 You can download it here. Angharad Powell is a Portfolio
9 April 2016
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GP Journal Club – March 2016

The March GP Journal Club is now on Storify. The paper discussed was: Holt TA, Fletcher E, Warren F, et al. Telephone triage systems in UK general practice: analysis of consultation duration during the index day in a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
21 March 2016
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GP Journal Club – February 2016

The February GP Journal Club is now on Storify. The paper discussed was: Douglas IJ, Bhaskaran K, Batterham RL, Smeeth L. Bariatric Surgery in the United Kingdom: A Cohort Study of Weight Loss and Clinical Outcomes in Routine Clinical Care. PLoS Med.
29 February 2016
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GP Journal Club 28th February 2016 – Bariatric surgery in the NHS

Paper: Douglas IJ, Bhaskaran K, Batterham RL, Smeeth L. Bariatric Surgery in the United Kingdom: A Cohort Study of Weight Loss and Clinical Outcomes in Routine Clinical Care. PLoS Med. 2015 Dec 22;12(12):e1001925. Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001925 Ahmed Rashid is an academic clinical fellow
23 February 2016
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GP Journal Club – January 2016

The first GP Journal Club is now on Storify. The paper discussed was Promoting physical activity in older people in general practice: ProAct65+ cluster randomised controlled trial by Illiffe et al and it can be downloaded here at bjgp.org. The next GP Journal Club
13 January 2016
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New on Twitter: the GP Journal Club

First #gpjc tweet chat will be 8pm UK time on Sunday 10th January. Please read the article and get involved. https://t.co/lVgWEBbC6I — GPjournalclub (@GPjournalclub) December 10, 2015 Lucy Pocock is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Primary Care and is on Twitter @drpoco
7 January 2016
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