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Meeting Dr Eugene Garfield

Meeting Dr Eugene Garfield

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It is natural for a student to dream of meeting his/her hero. In fact it is natural for this feeling to last much longer. It is a part of us that we don’t grow out of. So when I had the opportunity to meet Dr Eugene Garfield in person in the year 2013, on a day when I won an International Award and the day happened to be my birthday, it was like a triple bonus! How can one forget such days?? Dr Eugene Garfield (1925 – 2017), was an Information Scientist of worldwide fame. He had worked as a…
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The Medical Curriculum and AI – interesting article

The Medical Curriculum and AI – interesting article

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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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AIIMS Kalyani introduces our talk on Literature Searching in its Foundation Course for I MBBS

AIIMS Kalyani introduces our talk on Literature Searching in its Foundation Course for I MBBS

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The Foundation Course for I MBBS students – conducted by every medical college since the year 2019 – has an objective of sensitizing fresh medical students with the required knowledge and skills for their professional environment. It stresses on the medical graduate preparing to be a lifelong learner and developing strong leadership and communication skills.   In November, we received a call from AIIMS Kalyani – a medical college in the Eastern part of India, asking if we could deliver a lecture for their newly admitted I MBBS Students. We were delighted to take up this and I gave a…
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