Monthly Health Policy Journal Club will discuss detailed health policy topics each month. Each topic will include discussion of 3-4 journal club articles with a deep dive evaluating a health policy topic in detail. This will be a web-based live linkage with GW faculty in monthly 90 minute learning sessions for deep dive explorations of health policy topics and discussion of related policy articles. Initial sessions of our virtual health policy fellowship will train participants how to evaluate and translate policy manuscripts to colleagues and lay audiences. As part of this training, we will conduct a workshop that focuses on policy writing for academic and mainstream media. Subsequent sessions will be in a journal club format that will offer individuals an opportunity to generate ideas for joint collaboration. At the end of each session, we will brainstorm action items, including potential educational output such as grand rounds at home institutions, manuscripts, and opinion editorial pieces. Participants will be able to earn CME credits for participation in the Virtual Health Policy sessions (1 CME credit/session) using an EthosCE text code generated by the SMHS Office of Continuing Education for the Health Professions (CEHP) for regularly scheduled series (RSS). There have been successful models of this approach for other topics at different institutions, such as Stanford’s Physician Leadership Virtual Journal Club.9 A descriptive survey will be administered at 6 months about knowledge acquired and educational output.

The objective of the online health policy journal club is to increase providers' knowledge of pertinent health policy topics in the context of up to date current policy issues using journals and interactive discussions with peers.