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Lecture: LTMMC (Sion Hospital). Event – DNB Research Methodology Workshop. Aug 13, 2013

Lecture: LTMMC (Sion Hospital). Event – DNB Research Methodology Workshop. Aug 13, 2013

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It actually happened again!  I got invited to do a second lecture at the LTMMC. (And a third that is scheduled for the 28th of August). The 2nd lecture was on the 13th of August at a 2-day session on Research Methodology for DNB Students from Maharashtra. There were around 35 students. After a bit of tweaking of schedules, my lecture was from 12.00 noon till 1.30 PM. The students had already had two lectures by two great speakers - Dr Avinash Supe, who also is the Dean of LTMMC and Dr Mamta Manglani. Both being experienced speakers on the…
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Medical Library Services in India: Are We Not Asking Right?

Medical Library Services in India: Are We Not Asking Right?

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The National Medical Library in New Delhi has its website at www.nml.nic.in. On its home page it mentions: Our Philosophy : Excellence. At NML, we are driven by a singular focus on medicine. And our dedication to the medical community follows suit. Which is why we have earned the distinction of being one of the leading resource of medical information in Asia. In the about us page it mentions:  The National Medical Library aims to provide wide and efficient library and information services to the health science (HS) professionals in India. It functions under the administrative control of the Directorate General…
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Cases Database – a Database of Case Reports

Cases Database – a Database of Case Reports

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Cases Database Available at www.casedatabase.com, Cases Database, is database of thousands of medical case reports from multiple publishers, including Springer, BMJ and PubMed Central. Freely accessible and  continuously-updated, this is an initiative of  the Open Access Publisher - Biomed Central.  (As of 6 Aug 2013 - 27784 peer-reviewed medical case reports from 250 journals) The About US section of the Cases Database mentions "Documenting a patient's case history to inform physicians how the patient has been evaluated and the subsequent progression of his or her disease is arguably the oldest method of communicating medical evidence. And in the 21st century case reports play an equally important…
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