QMedCONNECT: Highlights of May 2019

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From our Founder's Desk

 

Welcoming new Trustees!

Welcoming new Trustees!

After a heavy month of lectures and workshops in April, the month of May was spent on internal focus. We are very happy to welcome three new Trustees to QMed: - 

1. Ms Anujaa Navaratnaa - a Librarian, who has worked in the LTMMC & Sion Hospital and later at CRISIL. She also has an MBA in Human Resources and has worked in that domain as well. Currently she is a freelance counselor and therapist, having acquired training in this area. She has varied strengths and we hope to harness a lot of them

 2. Ms Usha Sunil – a Librarian who has worked with the University of Mumbai, the Foundation for Research in Community Health, ColourChem and the American Library. She later worked as Economic Specialist - Energy at the US Embassy 

3. Dr Sandeep Bavdekar - a Pediatrician, who retired from TNMC & Nair Hospital as Prof and HoD,  He has worked over 30 years as a clinician and medical teacher.  He has served as the Editor of the Journal of Post-graduate Medicine and of Pediatric Clinics of India.  

We look forward to strengthening QMed with the additional strength of these Trustees. 

We conducted one workshop in May - in the Breach Candy Hospital. This workshop happened with the enthusiastic planning by the Department of Pathology and Microbiology. One of the doctors had done our workshop in 2014, and she got the support of the Head of the Department and the whole Research team, for organizing this one! 

 In May, we were awarded one new Badge for our Globalgiving Fundraising page - this was for being an "Effective Organization". This is in addition to three badges that we earned earlier

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Vasumathi Sriganesh

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From our Blog

Do medical students (undergraduates) need to learn research?

Do medical students (undergraduates) need to learn research?

Knowledge, attitude, practice, and barriers toward research among medical students: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey. Pallamparthy S, Basavareddy A. Perspect Clin Res. 2019 Apr-Jun;10(2):73-78. doi: 10.4103/picr.PICR_1_18. ; PMID: 31008073; PMCID: PMC6463502. This is an article after my heart! The authors voice our sentiments, when they say that medical students should be trained in the methods of carrying out research as they …

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Workshops

Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai

Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai

Date: 19-May-2019
Topic: PubMed Basics and Reference Management

Total participants: 26
New to Mesh, Fields and Boolean operators: 22
Could use a Reference Manager before this workshop: 5
Felt that PubMed should be included in the UG curriculum: 23
Felt that Mendeley  should be included in the UG curriculum: 19

Quite a few felt that they would have preferred to have more hands on exercises, especially for Mendeley.

The participants of the Breach Candy workshop.

With the organizing team! 

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Testimonials

Dr KJ Dastoor

Dr KJ Dastoor

Testimonial given at a workshop conducted in Breach Candy Hospital

This course was an eye opener. It is a must for undergrads. Have just learnt how to save hours and hours of time by attending this course. A big thank you to madam

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Accolades from GlobalGiving!

In 2017, QMed was awarded three badges from GlobalGiving. This year - we got a fourth badge - for Effectiveness.

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