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Miles to go! Deep Diving! Spreading our wings! All for India’s research outputs

Miles to go! Deep Diving! Spreading our wings! All for India’s research outputs

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Systematic Reviews are publications arising from “Secondary Research”. Which means a team of authors identifies all research papers on a topic and then together analyze and synthesize the findings in each, in order to generate evidence of what is useful. In India, recently there has been an upward movement in this area. Healthcare faculty are encouraged to author systematic reviews. And recently the ICMR is not only funding such secondary studies, but is also calling out to medical colleges to offer training in this area. Just like the foundation of a building needs to be very strong, for the building…
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A student from Bangladesh proves his worth

A student from Bangladesh proves his worth

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On the 2nd of May we had Sayeed – an MBBS student from Dhaka, registered on www.qmedcourses.in That is not unusual as we have had international students join off and on. Within a week he completed the first two courses and scored an 80% and a 100% respectively. While we applauded him for his scores, we were more impressed about two things: 1. That he finished the two courses very quickly (unlike a majority of participants)2. He gave constructive feedback!!  Apart from being specific in his feedback, he pointed out an error, in one of our assessment questions. When we checked it…
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THIRST for AIIMS – 10 Institutions completed

THIRST for AIIMS – 10 Institutions completed

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In April 2023, we received an Educational Grant from Pfizer to do our workshops and offer our ELearning courses in 10 AIIMS. We did six between July and August. We finished the last four later – Nov 7 in AIIMS Bathinda, Jan 29 in Bibinagar, Feb 24 in Bhubaneswar and April 11 in Mangalagiri. It was a lovely experience running the program in ten AIIMS in the country.  Apart from the fact that we had great feedback (you could see short video clips here), we ourselves learnt a lot – we got better and better at planning and executing every event. But the biggest learning for us is – how…
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