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July 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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July has been a busy month. We participated in an International fundraising campaign and raised around $3000. That sounds good. But we put in much efforts, we were pretty organized in planning emails and reminders and were full of expectations of raising more than $5000. Secretly we were hoping to even touch $10,000 ! That did not happen. Post the campaign, we have done a "post mortem" and noted what all we may need to improve upon in the future. Do read more about this interesting experience in our blog post.
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I also delivered two lectures this month. From one of them, I would like to share some interesting analysis of the quiz we imparted. One of the questions was about their knowledge about "MeSH Terms" in searching. The use of MeSH is really vital especially if one wants to find the most relevant results
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Out of 23 who filled in the form:
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- 16 mentioned that they learnt it during the lecture
- 4 mentioned that they had learnt it from me earlier
- 3 mentioned that they had learnt it from other sources
Sixteen individuals having learnt about MeSH only after completing medical degrees is not a great sign. (In fact the other seven may also have learnt it later - I am not sure about that)
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It was similar for knowledge about Boolean operators. Applying these incorrectly, can play havoc with results. And we still often observe that people make mistakes with these.
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- 16/23 said that 80% or more of what they learnt was new for them.
- 21/23 wished they had learnt these skills in their UG days.
- 13/23 felt it should be introduced in the UG curriculum and 10/23 felt that it should be in the PG curriculum
I still wonder - when we prove this in almost every lecture and workshop, why the National Medical Commission, the Dental Council of India and other related bodies do not take this seriously. Why do the same participants not work together and make an appeal. Why do institutions not ensure that everyone learns from QMed's most convenient ELearning plaform?
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"Who will bell the cat?" - is the question that seems to be coming up!
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From our Blog
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The challenges of fundraising
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Raising funds to run a not for profit organization is a challenge. Sounds pretty obvious? Okay - maybe if you are an expert fundraiser you may disagree, but that applies to experts. Who may have fundraising abilities in their blood , or developed them over years. Over the years, my colleague and I have learnt several things about how to …
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Useful Articles
- Wathiq Al Hajaj S, Nair VV, Bharadwaj S, R P, Shoukry H, Srinivasan SH. From residency to research excellence, mapping orthopaedic publication trends: A scoping review. J Clin Orthop Trauma. 2025 Jul 5;69:103121. doi:10.1016/j.jcot.2025.103121. PMID: 40688412; PMCID: PMC12275685.
- Drmota J, Ng Z, Fernandes R, Shrestha AK, Pangeni A. Small-Scale Interventions Improving Literature Search Skills Among Resident Doctors: An Observational Study. Cureus. 2025 Jun 9;17(6):e85612. doi: 10.7759/cureus.85612. PMID: 40636592; PMCID: PMC12239851.
- Durrani N, Imran M, Saeed R. Evolution of artificial intelligence writing tools in domain of scientific writing: A threat to human writing and its ethical considerations. J Family Med Prim Care. 2025 May;14(5):1580-1583. doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1615_24. Epub 2025 May 31. PMID: 40547724; PMCID:PMC12178490.
- Buvariya S, Prasant MC, Krishna AG, Mavani AK, Vilasgiri GM, Thakur GS, Tiwari R. The Art of Quality Health Science Article Writing for Peer-Reviewed Professional Journals: A Review Article. J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2025 May;17(Suppl 1):S66-S69. doi: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_651_24. Epub 2025 Feb 28. PMID:40511185; PMCID: PMC12156575.
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Lectures, Webinars & Workshops
- 15th July - Literature Searching lecture at SNDT, Juhu, Mumbai
- 28th July - Literature Searching and Reference Management lectures at RA Podar Ayurveda College
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QMedCourses News
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Currently we have 7006 participants including 18 institutions and 1940 individuals registered for the courses
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Testimonials for QMedCourses
Course: Information Resources & Literature Searching
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The course is informative for the PG students and have reduced the searching time and made it précised search for research articles. The course is interesting ,informative, simplified the concept for searching the articles and told about databases I have never came across. Great course for PG students to learn how to do literature search. Rutuja Deshmukh, PG Student, MITWPU Kothrud ,Pune.
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