QMedCONNECT : January 2019

QMedCONNECT: Highlights of January 2019

From our Founder's Desk

The year started on a sombre note for QMed, with the untimely loss of our Trustee Dr Anand Shandilya. In this month, we resolved that as we had to work to get another Trustee, we would do lots more to plan long term. Apart from our lectures, workshops and working on our ELearning courses, we did a fair amount of planning for strengthening our board and more.

From our Blog

Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Principles of Epidemiology & SPSS -- February 11 – 14, 2019

This is an introductory course on principles of Biostatistics offered by the Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore. The course covers various aspects of Biostatistics, Basic Epidemiology and the Statistical Software SPSS.

The course will benefit researchers from medical and allied health sciences field.

Further details and Application form can be downloaded from this link - https://www.cmc-biostatistics.ac.in/spss_jan2019.pdf

Workshops

Rotaract Club of the Caduceus, Mumbai

Date: 25-January-2019
Topic: PubMed Basics
Participants: 6

Lectures

Government Dental College and Hospital, Mumbai

Date: 31-January-2019
Topic: Literature Search
Participants: 38

Grant Medical College & Sir JJ Groups of Hospitals

Date: 29-January-2019
Topic: Literature Search
Participants: 50

APM’s Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Sion

Date: 19-January-2019
Topic: Literature Search

Read more.

Achievements

Vasumathi Sriganesh mentors around 25 participants of MECOR January 2019.

MECOR is an annual event conducted by a section of the American Thoracic Society, to strengthen research skills in India. Vasumathi Sriganesh has participated in this for years. This year, participants were made to view her recorded lectures before the event, and then work on search strategies for their topics and get mentored to improve them. The experiment was pretty successful!

Milestones

Vasumathi participated as faculty for the MECOR India program for the seventh time. Her contributions to this program are well appreciated by the faculty from the American Thoracic Society

Updates

January 2019

With deep regret, we share that we lost our Trustee – Dr Anand Shandilya. He succumbed to a heart attack on the 1st of January 2019, leaving a void at QMed.
Vasumathi Sriganesh mentored participants of MECOR India (2019) for their literature searches for their projects