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Workshop: PubMed Interactive – Sep 21, 2013 Event Report

Workshop: PubMed Interactive – Sep 21, 2013 Event Report

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“I had attended your Lecture and I wanted to attend your workshop”. “I missed your lecture at TMC & my friends told me that I must attend the workshop”. “I am a research student & I find it difficult to search with the time constraints involved”. “I am a practicing consultant and I see so many new types of cases in the OPD; I know I need to stay updated”. “We doctors have such mad schedules & I really don’t want irrelevant results when I search. So I am here”. These are some of the reasons that 12 participants -…
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Lecture: LTMMC (Sion Hospital). Event – DNB Research Methodology Workshop. Aug 28, 2013

Lecture: LTMMC (Sion Hospital). Event – DNB Research Methodology Workshop. Aug 28, 2013

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And the 3rd lecture at the LTMMC happened on Aug 28. This time again there were about 35 DNB students from different parts of Maharashtra. As usual I arrived at the venue about an hour early. (Some childhood habits die hard - my father who was a Prof in IIT Bombay and had also lived in the UK always insisted that we arrive early at any place, irrespective of the normal Indian punctuality issues!).  Having reached early, I got to listen to Dr Mamta Manglani (Head of the Dept of Pediatrics) once more. Dr Manglani seemed sorry for me, but…
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Workshop: Literature Searching (for employees of a Pharma Company) – Aug 26, 2013 – Event Report

Workshop: Literature Searching (for employees of a Pharma Company) – Aug 26, 2013 – Event Report

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Event: Full day Literature Searching Workshop It has been a while since we did any workshop for the Industry. We have never promoted or targeted the industry for our workshops, but they were always welcome if they contacted us. So it was a pleasant surprise when a Manager of the Medical Information Dept of Wockhardt sent us an email  in the end of July asking us for a workshop for their employees. Their initial coverage requirements prompted one of my colleagues to comment "They seem to be asking for a Diploma course in a day"! Nevertheless it was great knowing…
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