QMed turns fifteen!

QMed turns fifteen!

A family celebrates the birth of a child and it often appears that in no time the child grows up. That is the feeling we got this month when we completed 15 years of our registration! What have we achieved in the last 15 years? Delivered around 520 lectures, conducted 245 workshops, launched our ELearning platform – and registered more than 5000 participants and overall reached out to more than 35000 health sciences students & professionals The QMed Team - celebrating 15 years! We have had excellent feedback from majority who completed our courses – stressing that these courses must…
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Do libraries matter anymore?

Do libraries matter anymore?

I came across an interesting post by “Everylibrary” an organization in the USA, dedicated to building voter support for libraries. Everylibrary is a gold-rated non-profit organization; they help public, school, and college libraries secure new funding. The post – “How to Respond to People Who Don’t Get Libraries” talks about how many people do not understand libraries. People often ask rather unusual questions about libraries and this post describes some answers they need. Questions like - “Do people even go to libraries anymore?” and “Why do you need a master’s degree to be a librarian anyway?” Some of the questions…
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The Medical Curriculum and AI – interesting article

The Medical Curriculum and AI – interesting article

I recently came across this interesting article: Artificial intelligence in healthcare: Should it be included in the medical curriculum? A students’ perspective The authors discuss how the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly growing in medicine, as in all fields. While AI is around 65 years old now, it is paradoxically still in its infancy in academics, and if anything, still more in medicine. They have discussed the need to introduce the knowledge of AI in the medical curriculum right from the Undergraduate days. They explain it with an incident of how one of the authors - a UG…
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