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April 2024
What do we have for you this month?
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- Useful article
- Our Workshops
- QMedCourses News & Testimonials
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From our CEO
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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.
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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.
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But the biggest learning for us is – how difficult it could be to get an institution to say yes to take up our offer … to help them save time, and to lay a strong foundation for their research activities.
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Even when we offered it for free, through this grant.
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As we deliberated and applied thoughts, it boils down to what we call the “They don’t know what they don’t know syndrome” We actually wrote a blog post about this earlier.
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Institutions seem to delay or say no to our programs (even if free) – because they have not yet found it important to prioritize the learning of correct literature searching skills.
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We deliberated further. Why do brilliant people not understand this importance?
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Is it because they have never been trained on how to use libraries right from school days? And also to give credits to the best resources when they write?
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We are not sure, but believe that this may be the reason!
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Practically every feedback video reveals that the person was never taught the basics of structured searching – starting from “understand the coverage of a resource”.
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And so – our quest continues.
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We just launched our latest ELearning course – “Reference Management with Zotero”
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We are looking for more grants to cover more institutions.
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But what we need even more is that institutions understand this need and subscribe to our courses – year after year – so that every student and professional gets a great learning experience.
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We want all of them to save time, get a strong foundation in research skills, and produce good research, publications and the best evidence!
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From our Social Media Posts - "Useful Article"
- Gandhi M, Gandhi M. Does AI's touch diminish the artistry of scientific writing or elevate it? Crit Care. 2023 Sep 11;27(1):350. doi: 10.1186/s13054-023-04634-z. PMID: 37697405
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Lectures, Webinars & Workshops
- 11th April – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at AIIMS Mangalagiri (under the THIRST for AIIMS project supported by an Educational Grant from Pfizer)
- 25th April – Literature Searching & Referencing – Lecture at Mittal Ayurveda
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Don't miss our Social Media posts on all these workshops!
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QMedCourses News
This month we added a new course "Reference Management with Zotero" and also added the Final Assessment questions and Certificates for "Advanced PubMed Searching for Authoring Systematic Reviews" course.
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Individuals Joined - Around 25
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Currently we have 8850 participants including 18 institutions and 1747 individuals registered for the courses
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Testimonials for QMedCourses
Course: Information Resources & Literature Searching
With the help of this course I did my literature search for my proposal. The help provided by the team when I faced logging in issues was timely and helpful. The course is very comprehensive. Sonali, PhD student, AIIMS Bhopal
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Course: Introduction to Referencing
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This course is very useful for beginners. I liked that it was short but was informative. Debabrata Tripathy, Dep of Community Medicine & Family Medicine, AIIMS Bhubaneswar
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How you can engage with us
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