In the last couple of years there is a spurt in the number of students and faculty wanting to do systematic reviews. We do notice that many initially think this would be easy as this is secondary research about papers, and not primary research done on patients. But one area…

In the last week of November we got an email from AIIMS Guwahati – one of our registered institutions. In the email they indicated that they wanted to provide access to our courses to their MBBS students. We were delighted. Just as we were getting over the euphoria, on the…

In May 2021 a young doctor - Vinayak Mishra - approached QMed. He had completed his medical degree and experienced that it was difficult to get mentors if he wanted to author a systematic review. He asked us if he could work on a collaborative project with us where QMed…

For quite long I had assumed that since PubMed Central (PMC for short) was included in PubMed, one did not have to search the PMC database - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ - separately. PMC is an "archive" of free biomedical and life sciences journal articles. Journal articles are added and archived in PMC…

In my last post I had mentioned that when we worked with researchers engaged with research projects for the Lancet Citizens' Commission, we observed that if they had approached us earlier we may have saved them lots more time. After my last post, one of them mentioned - "If we…