QMedCONNECT: Highlights of February 2020

From our Founder's Desk

Dear Readers

This month had me delivering four lectures. The first was at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital in Pune, at an event for consultants and a handful of residents. It was a half day event on Research Methods, with only three speakers; so I was honoured that literature searching was one of the topics! I am happy to note that the importance is slowing and steadily getting its recognition. The second was at the Vivekanand Education Society's College of Pharmacy. I was given a two hour slot and the audience were UG students of Pharmacy. This was the first time I addressed this group and I have to say that as always, I enjoy having UG students because they listen with full attention, being in the learning mode. It was interesting that the institution had planned a week long program for the students and made registration optional, but 65 students had chosen to enrol

What was deeply heartening for me was that soon after I started, a couple of students called four of their classmates and ensured that they registered for the course. They told them they were missing something crucial!

I was told about this, after I finished my lecture and a faculty member was expressing her thanks. I was hugely touched. 

The 3rd and 4th lectures were part of a workshop organized by the Nutrition Society of India's Mumbai Chapter, for MSc and PhD students of Nutrition in Mumbai. Again, the day included only three speakers and I was one of them. I delivered lectures on Literature searching and Reference Management. Once again, it was great seeing these two being included as "important to learn". At the end of February 2020, about 12 years after we launched our Foundation and its lectures and workshops, I am beginning to feel satisfied about the recognition of the value of lectures on these topics. 

We still want to see the day that they become part of the curriculum and are putting in full efforts towards making this happen. Do flood us with wishes! 

 

Vasumathi Sriganesh

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Lectures

Nutrition Society of India Mumbai Chapter

Nutrition Society of India Mumbai Chapter

Date: 29-02-2020
Total number of participants 80 

Vasumathi Sriganesh delivered a lecture on Literature Searching. The session had 80 participants - Post Graduate students of Nutrition. The lecture was highly appreciated.

Nutrition Society of India Mumbai Chapter

Nutrition Society of India Mumbai Chapter

Date: 29-02-2020
Total number of participants 80 

Vasumathi Sriganesh delivered a lecture on Reference Management using Mendely. The session had 80 participants - Post Graduate students of Nutrition. The lecture was highly appreciated.

Vivekanand Education Society’s College of Pharmacy-Lecture

Vivekanand Education Society's College of Pharmacy

Date: 10-02-2020
Total number of participants 65 

Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital & Research Center

Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital & Research Center

Date: 09-02-2020
Total number of participants 25 

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From our Blog

What are your problems?

What are your problems?

I recently attended a webinar titled "Sales Excellence for B2B Selling in Emerging Markets". The topic obviously sounds "Oh so commercial", but guess what? The audience were all from the social sector. Now why did we need such a webinar? It turns out that all of us are either creating products or offering services (or both). Only, what we do is for a social objective. The presenter of the webinar was Scott Roy from "Whitten & Roy Parthership" (USA) and he did a great job of tailoring his talk with the social sector in mind!

The main message that he gave us (worth its weight in gold) was:
Find out what the problems are, and tell your audience what your product or service will do to address these. Try and estimate the cost of the problem and let your audience know how they get rid of these costs, with your product or service

Now does that not seem like sheer common sense?

At QMed, with several years of interactions with participants post a lecture or a workshop, we have learnt about many problems. But we are sure that there are many more. So, we now plan to reach out and to learn and list all of them. While our lectures, workshops and online courses may address the problems we know about, we want to keep doing better and help you solve all of them. That is the way we can reach out to everyone in the health professions, all over India - our dream objective.

I encourage anyone who reads this post to list his / her problems while conducting online searches or referencing. Do make them generic, (eg - many articles are expensive, we get lots of irrelevant results, we waste too much time in both searching and referencing...) we can get to specifics when we have one to one discussions. We look forward to hearing from you here, and interacting with you soon!

Short Course in Biostatistics – March 30th to 31st and April 1st to 3rd, 2020

Short Course in Biostatistics – March 30th to 31st and April 1st to 3rd, 2020

The Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore is organizing Short Course on Statistical Methods in Measuring Health and Principles of Biostatistics using ‘R’

Short Course on Statistical Methods in Measuring Health: Scales and Measurements - March 30-31, 2020

Principles of Biostatistics using ‘R’ - April 1-3, 2020

For more information click here https://www.cmc-biostatistics.ac.in/upcommingevent.php

A Workshop on Research Methodology in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from 16th to 20th March 2020

A Workshop on Research Methodology in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from 16th to 20th March 2020

The workshop is organized by Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Collaboration with UDEHP) KAHER, Belagavi, Karnataka.

This workshop will be useful for Faculty in Medicine, Health Research Scholars and Students preparing for Entrance Exam for Higher Ph. D etc

The workshop covers: - Designing Studies, Protocol Writing & Statistical Fallacies; Literature Search & Review, Impact Factor; Study Designs, Sampling Techniques and Analysis; Sample Size Estimation and Study Designs and Diagnostic evaluation

For more details:

Contact: Organizing Secretary
Dr. N.K. Tyagi, Professor and Head,
KLE Acamedy Of Higher Education And Research
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, JNMC campus, Nehru Nagar, Belagavi -590010 Karnataka
E-mail: biostat.kle@gmail.com
M: 07353874860, Tele: 0831-2444058

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