February 2021 - QMed Knowledge Foundation

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Evidence Aid’s COVID-19 project:

The project is almost one year old and the team at EVIDENCE AID has prepared nearly 500 short, plain language summaries covering more than 750 systematic reviews relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact. The summaries are available in English, with translations into several other languages including Arabic, Chinese,…

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Oral Pathologist Day

7 - International Days

25th February-We learnt only yesterday about this observance from a post by Dr Akshay Dhobley - an Oral Pathologist in Nagpur. Here is something for Oral Pathologists - a link to free articles in PubMed about Oral Pathology from India. Do share them with all Oral Pathologists! https://www.tinyurl.com/qmedsm210226

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Health science libraries and librarians – rewrite the expectations!

1 - VS Shares

Should the library be closed? This was a question I found in the main library file, when I joined the Hinduja Hospital as Librarian in March 1992. That was nearly three decades ago. The reason stated was - the library was not being utilized enough. Having just joined, the question…

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Infodemic – the avalanche! Who can help?

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The library's role in countering infodemics Walker P. J Med Libr Assoc. 2021 Jan 1;109(1):133-136 The World Health Organization recently labeled the COVID-19 pandemic as an 'Infodemic'. As the term suggests, an infodemic translates to an aggressive growth in the amount of information available regarding a topic of interest, so…

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International Childhood Cancer Day

7 - International Days

15th February-This is a day to raise awareness about childhood cancer, and to support the management of this condition. Here is a link to reviews on different childhood cancers in the last one year: https://tinyurl.com/qmedsm210215

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Evidence Aid’s COVID-19 project:

Oral Pathologist Day

Health science libraries and librarians – rewrite the expectations!

Infodemic – the avalanche! Who can help?

International Childhood Cancer Day

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