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January 2026
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From our CEO
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It always amazes me when we are at the end of the first month of the New Year. It seems like just a few days since we have been wishing everyone for the year, and before we know it - a whole month has passed by!
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We have had a lovely start to 2026. The Maharashtra Medical Council has given us Accreditation for Webinars on a case to case basis. Which means, we need to plan special webinars based on their norms, apply to them every time and then conduct the webinars. Each one will fetch credit points for those who attend.
Even before this happened, we decided to re-start our bi-monthly webinars. We had tried these earlier but did not continue them for a bunch of reasons. This month we did two of them and are happy that we restarted. Going ahead - we need to figure out if we will do both regular and MMC accredited events or only the latter
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This month we are delighted to welcome Ms Mahek Panchal who will be with us for three weeks as an Intern. She is pursuing her Masters Degree in Library and Information Sciences from the SNDT Women's University and this is part of her course requirement.
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From our Blog
ELearning Assessments Made Powerful
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Assessments shouldn’t just test learning — they should strengthen it.
See how we reimagined final exams to guide learners back to the right concepts and videos, making learning truly stick.
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QMed Webinars: Building Better Literature Searching Skills Through Live Learning
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Learning literature searching and reference management works best when it is interactive and immediate. As QMed prepares to host two literature searching webinars (and reference management too!) - every month, recent live sessions have shown us how strongly learners respond to active elements such as real-time searches and immediate quizzes. These insights are shaping how we design QMed’s webinars going …
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Immediate Quizzes in Action: Lessons from Four Recent Lectures
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January 2026—after a brief gap—has been full of lecture and webinar invitations, and it has been immensely energising. Across these sessions, we continued to experiment with immediate quizzes in teaching, an approach we first reflected on in an earlier blog post after a couple of lectures in December 2025. These recent talks gave us an opportunity to apply the idea …
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The Knowledge I Carry Today Must Not End With Me
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A conversation that stayed with me The world's largest storehouse of knowledge is in the graveyard, said a Professor friend. And that made me feel "The knowledge I carry today must not end with me.". I must share it In QMed’s August 2025 newsletter, I had mentioned that I had been interviewed for a podcast as part of my school’s …
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"Immediate quizzes" reveal a hard truth about literature searching skills
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Here is a story about how in recent lectures which were part of workshops, we used "Immediate quizzes" to reveal gaps in literature searching skills. And further stressed what we have known for years - that these skills need to be taught in the curriculum In December, our Founder delivered two lectures as part of two workshops at a Dental …
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Maharashtra Medical Council Accredits QMed for CPD Webinars: A Recognition of Information Skills in Medical Practice
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Accreditation by the Maharashtra Medical Council We are pleased to share that the Maharashtra Medical Council - MMC Accredits QMed Webinars. for CPD - (Continuous Professional Development) programs! Medical professionals participating in these webinars will be eligible to receive CPD credit hours as recognized by the Council. Focused Education in Core Information Skills What makes this accreditation particularly significant is …
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Do You Know
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Digital Collections of the National Library of Medicine: A Treasure Trove for Health History
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We often think of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as a place for current biomedical literature—PubMed searches, MeSH terms, and systematic reviews.But quietly, and generously, NLM also opens a window into the past through its Digital Collections. The Digital Collections of the NLM bring together digitised books, manuscripts, reports, images, films, and historical documents related to medicine, public health, …
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Useful Articles
- Meliante LA, Coco G, Rabiolo A, De Cillà S, Manni G. Evaluation of AI Tools Versus the PRISMA Method for Literature Search, Data Extraction, and Study
Composition in Glaucoma Systematic Reviews: Content Analysis. JMIR AI. 2025;4:e68592. doi: 10.2196/68592. PMID: 40911843
Read the article - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12413140/
- Menon RG. Artificial Intelligence Tools in Medical Writing - Boon or Bane? Neurol India. 2025;73:953-954. doi: 10.4103/neurol-india.Neurol-India-D-25-00617.PMID: 40946273
- Quaia E. Self-Plagiarism and Redundant Publications: A True Scientific Misconduct. Tomography. 2025;11:102. doi: 10.3390/tomography11090102. PMID: 41003485
Full article - https://www.mdpi.com/2379-139X/11/9/102
- Esra Dogru-Huzmeli. Evaluating ChatGPT's ability to simplify scientific abstracts for clinicians and the public. Sci Rep. 2025;15:33466. PMID: 41022954
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Lectures, Webinars & Workshops
4th Jan – Webinar for Institute of Nutrition and Fitness Sciences on Literature Searching and Referencing
6th Jan – Lecture at APM’s Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Sion on Literature Searching
7th Jan – Lecture at R. A. Podar Ayurved Medical College on Literature Searching
10th Jan – Webinar on Literature Searching for the UG scholars of Foundation for Excellence
14th Jan – Webinar on Mastering PubMed
15th Jan – Lecture at MUHS Advanced RMWS on Literature Searching & Referencing
28th Jan – Webinar on Reference Management with Zotero
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QMedCourses News
Currently we have 7195 participants including 7 institutions and 2007 individuals registered for the courses
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Foundation for Excellence joins us for Institutional Access to our courses
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Testimonials for QMedCourses
Course: Information Resources & Literature Searching
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Using PubMed was always mystery to me, and this program helped me understand it. I loved the way you taught, from basic level you explained the importance, the usefulness of these exercises and also helped us to learn how to do them ourselves. I just hope I should have been taught this earlier like in first year or at least I should have known about it.
Samrat Nanasaheb Gadhave, UG student, LTMMC&GH (Supported by Foundation for Excellence)
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