Abstract: Objective To investigate the effectiveness of Journal club in young neurosurgeon education. Methods 36 young neurosurgeon with working experience less than five years were chosen as subjects who received training of book report from Jan 2016 to Dec 2016 and received training of Journal club from Jan 2017 to Dec 2017. Questionnaires were used at the end of training to evaluate young neurosurgeon’s language expression ability, literature inductive ability, literature reading quantity, English reading ability, satisfaction degree. Results Young neurosurgeon’s language expression ability,literature inductive ability, literature reading quantity, English reading ability, satisfaction degree were better by Journal club method than by book report method. There was significant difference between two groups (P<0.05). Conclusion Journal clubs training was practicable and effective to cultivate the young neurosurgeon’s scientific research qualities and abilities.