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June 2025
What do we have for you this month?
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- CEO Speaks
- From our Blog
- Useful articles
- Our Lectures / Workshops
- QMedCourses News & Testimonials
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From our CEO
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Hello again - with our June newsletter!
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This month for a change, I was invited to deliver a lecture on "Selection of studies" for doing a systematic review. This was at a three day workshop on systematic reviews at ACTREC - which is a centre of the well known Tata Memorial Hospital in my city. A friend of mine - Satish is the librarian there and he was delivering the lecture on the topic I normally take - which is - Literature searching. I enjoyed this change. More so because about ten years ago I had actually done the screening of studies for a major review.
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At that time I was coached by another expert and remembered many steps. I planned my talk. Oh yes - this time I took the help of AI, and it made my job faster. But - I did tweak it a lot and proudly claim it IS "My talk". I believe in doing it by myself, with help from AI.
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After my talk there was a practical session where Satish, another librarian friend Medha, my colleague Dipti and I - all helped coordinate a literature searching demo cum practical.
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The fun part of the day, was a fond memory - Medha, Satish and I had all started our careers in librarianship - not in a medical library, but in the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism. We recalled our respective days out there fondly, and sent a picture of the three of us, to another long time (now retired) librarian of the IIG - telling her - "We wish you were with us now for this picture!"
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Some events are livened up thus!
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From our Blog
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How to Peer Review Search Strategies
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I recently did a short course on "How to Peer Review Search Strategies". This was offered by INSTATS - an organization that offers several excellent research related courses. What is Peer reviewing of search strategies? In India, we have a lacuna of knowledge about search strategies and the need for them to be structured. Most often very little thought is is given to the strategy and it is done in an ad-hoc manner. Peer reviewing is something no one even thinks about
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Useful Articles
- Batmanabane G, et al. Research Methodology and Biostatistics in the Postgraduate Curriculum: The AIIMS-Bhubaneswar Experience. J Assoc Physicians India. 2024;72:98-100. doi: 10.59556/japi.72.0714. PMID: 39563131
- Morin RA, LaVertu AE. Bibliotherapy for stress management: a wellness intervention for first-year medical students. J Med Libr Assoc. 2025;113:158-167. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2025.1830. PMID: 40342309
- Yip R, Sun YJ, Bassuk AG, Mahajan VB. Artificial intelligence's contribution to biomedical literature search: revolutionizing or complicating? PLOS Digit Health. 2025 May 12;4(5):e0000849. doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000849. PMID: 40354425; PMCID: PMC12068611. PMID: 40354425
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Lectures, Webinars & Workshops
- 26th Jun- Lecture on Screening of Studies for Systematic Review at a workshop on Systematic review and meta-analysis held at ACTREC
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QMedCourses News
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Currently we have 7000 participants including 18 institutions and 1900 individuals registered for the courses
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Testimonials for QMedCourses
Course: Information Resources & Literature Searching
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I have practiced what was taught in the live workshop and watched the online videos. This has made my literature searching quick and hassle free since then. I liked the usefulness of the topic, the easy to understand explanation and the ease of application. Priyanka Uday Honavar, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital
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