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February 2025
What do we have for you this month?
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- CEO Speaks
- Useful articles
- Our Lectures and Workshops
- QMedCourses News & Testimonials
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From our CEO
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After 12 long years, I visited SEARCH, Gadchiroli - this time to conduct a one day workshop on PubMed & Zotero. My earlier visit in 2012, was to explore SEARCH, spend time there, and understand if QMed could help them in any way. I spent a full week and had written some blog posts on my personal blog (which I am afraid I have not kept updated later). But the posts I wrote then are descriptive and interesting :)
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This time my workshop was on the 27th of February. I reached there on the 26th and left on the 28th morning. On the 27th, we had around 15 people attend the workshop. The audience had a mix of young doctors, public health researchers and a Statistician, Mr Mahesh who has been with SEARCH for years. I met him last time too and was impressed with all his committed work!
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To my delight Dr Abhay Bang himself was present to inaugurate the event. He exchanged a few words with me and introduced me to the audience, after we did a brief lamp lighting ceremony. He then requested all participants to make the best use of the workshop.
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The group was extremely committed. They seemed to be on the edge of their chairs all the time - waiting to absorb every input. They participated a 100% - answering questions, solving problems that I set, and more
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Ms Roshni Babu was the coordinator for this workshop and did all that she could to make my trip comfortable and memorable. At the end of the workshop - she told the others the most important thing. She said "we are aiming to increase our publications - so that we share our research findings across"! And I thought - if this was an organization that had brought down infant mortality by a whopping 72% - after their founders moved in there, they definitely did need to share how they worked, how they carried out public health research, and more!
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At the end of the day, I got to meet Drs Abhay and Rani Bang once again, after the daily prayer meeting. Dr Rani told me that she remembered my last visit very well. I was very happy to hear that - considering that they have varied visitors on a pretty regular basis. We had a brief chat and they told me that I was welcome to visit more often.
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SEARCH is really a place for a quiet "getaway" from cities and stresses. You only hear birds out there! For me it was the perfect combination of a lovely break plus doing what I love doing!
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With the legendary Dr Abhay Bang
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With Roshni Babu - Program Coordinator & Research Associate
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Participants - solving exercises
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Participants - solving exercises
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The silent and invigorating campus
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Useful Articles
- Magro J, et al. From Questions to Answers: Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine Question Formulation and Literature Searching Skills to First-Year Medical Students. MedEdPORTAL. 2025;21:11496. doi: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11496. PMID: 39968292
- Apoorv TS. Writing for Clarity: A Concise Guide for Scientific Writing and Tips for Selecting a Journal. Indian J Radiol Imaging. 2025;35(Suppl 1):S49-S52. doi: 10.1055/s-0044-1800802. PMID: 39802720
- Matsubara S. Artificial Intelligence in Medical Writing: Addressing Untouched Threats. JMA J. 2025;8:273-275. PMID: 39926103
- Kabir A, Shah S, Haddad A, Raper DMS. Introducing Our Custom GPT: An Example of the Potential Impact of Personalized GPT Builders on Scientific Writing. World Neurosurg. 2025;193:461-468 PMID: 39442688
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Lectures, Webinars & Workshops
- 7th Feb- Vasumathi Sriganesh was invited as a panelist in DY Patil Medical College in a Panel Discussion on One Nation One Subscription
- 12th Feb- Webinar on Literature Searching for K.B. Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Gandhinagar
- 20th Feb - Lecture on Literature Searching at Y.M.T. Homoeopathic Medical College – Hospital
- 25th Feb - Lecture Literature Searching and Referencing at KG Mittal Ayurvedic College
- 27th Feb- Workshop on Lecture on Literature Searching & Referencing at SEARCH, Gadchiroli
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QMedCourses News
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Currently we have 9750 participants including 18 institutions and 1875 individuals registered for the courses
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Testimonials for QMedCourses
Course: Information Resources and Literature Searching
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This course is useful because the content is well structured and emphasis is given on every topic that is relevant for literature searching. I found it helpful and will refer it to my peers as well. Every topic was covered well. Nothing was left incomplete, finding such organized courses Online is very rare. Shashank Shekhar, Dept Clinical Pharmacy, Bharati Vidyapeeth
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