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QMedCONNECT: Highlights

May 2025

Greetings from QMed!.

You could book mark the page - www.qmed.ngo/newsletter on our website and check it out when you wish to.
What do we have for you this month?
  • CEO Speaks
  • From our Blog
  • Useful articles
  • Our Lectures / Workshops
  • QMedCourses News & Testimonials
The QMed Team

From our CEO

I recently came across a great post on LinkedIn by Ajit Sivaram - co-founder of U&I Trust. In this post he described what it is like to be a Founder of a not for profit organization in India. In approximately a dozen paras that he wrote, every line resonated with what I feel today.

People ask me why QMed is a not for profit. Next time I am asked this question, I am going to use Ajit's answer:

"My work isn't just charity. It's necessary. It's professional. It's the hard, unglamorous labor of building the India we keep saying we want." Something that no one else works on. But my terrific team and I do (for QMed's mission).

Correct Literature searching and correct referencing, using a reference manager are two skills that every health professional MUST learn. Whether they do research or not. BUT, somehow this has not sunk in. Neither the National Medical Commission nor the Directors, Deans, Principals or any Heads have yet felt this is a MUST. Many have felt it is something "nice to know" or "useful". But not yet critical and compulsory.

And that is what we are trying to change.

People also ask me - "Why can't your target audience pay?"

My answer - "Till they understand the importance, or till it is made mandatory, they choose not to

We are offering to make this change with an affordable solution - a platform www.qmedcourses.in - where people can learn at their own pace and also interact with us. Or even invite us to their institution to conduct workshops.

The day when the NMC and related boards take this seriously enough - good things will happen:
  • Students will see additional reading and research in a new light
  • Research standards will improve
  • Medical writing standards will improve
  • We will generate good quality publications and not the large quantity that is happening today - where quality is not certain
  • We will generate Indian evidence
  • And QMed can prove that low cost solutions CAN make a big difference!
Here is a link to Ajit Sivaram's excellent post. Highly recommended reading!

From our Blog

Our blog post in May talks about how every stakeholder must ensure that the ONOS - (One Nation One Subscription) should be available permanently.

The ONOS – https://www.onos.gov.in/ is an initiative launched in January this year with support from the Govt of India. It makes available articles from a large number of journals (more than 13000). This from more than 27 subject categories.

The permanent availablity will happen only if all beneficiaries use it heavily, use it well, use it for lots of reading, research and acacemics. Our Founder has given some inputs on all of these.

Read the blog post here

Useful Articles

  1. Kingpriest PT, et al. A national cross-sectional study on research opportunities and barriers among medical students in Nigeria, with recommendations. BMC Med Educ. 2025;25:713. PMID: 40380171; PMCID: PMC12085030.
  2. Mizna S, et al. An analytic research and review of the literature on practice of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Eur J Med Res. 2025;30:382. PMID: 40369671; PMCID: PMC12076917.
  3. Mahajan R. Confusion Surrounding the Mandatory Requirement of Thesis Submission: Review of the Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations of the National Medical Commission. Int J Appl Basic Med Res. 2025;15:1-3. PMID: 40336769; PMCID: PMC12054657.

Lectures, Webinars & Workshops

Lectures/Webinars:
  • 15th May- Talk in an Interactive Session for Pune University on the topic “Career in Library and Information Science”

QMedCourses News

Courses Statistics:
Individuals Joined - 27

Currently we have 9800 participants including 18 institutions and 1880 individuals registered for the courses

Testimonials for QMedCourses

Course: Mastering PubMed

This course was very informative and well structured. It helped me understand how effectively one can search and utilize PubMed for research purpose. I Liked the clarity with which the topics were explained and the step-by-step guidance on using the database. This course will help me in my growth. Safna P S, B. Pharm student

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