QMedCONNECT : August 2020

QMedCONNECT: Highlights of August 2020

From our Founder's Desk

Welcome to our August newsletter!

Last month we had mentioned that we had 1429 registrants on www.qmedcourses.in It was nice to have these numbers in just 1.5 months of our launch. This number included individual registrants and institutional registrants.

This month our numbers have gone up to 1540. The new registrants have all been individuals. We are happy to see this growth. We are also happy that at least three people had mentoring sessions with me for correct search strategies for authoring systematic or rapid reviews. One young doctor worked on his search strategy after having studied the relevant videos in our PubMed tutorial - the Advanced Section and then refined it after a video call, where I gave specific inputs on his strategy. Another researcher also had a similar session and is in the process of finalizing his strategy. A young dentist asked for guidance and has promised that she and her co-authors would go through the relevant videos, formulate their strategy together and then come back for a guidance session.

I think three people approaching us for such mentoring is a lovely development. It feels good to "teach them to fish"!

We are also happy to share that participants of our courses include people from all streams - medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, nutrition, pharmacy and more. This month we had one webinar for pharmacists and one for MSc and PhD students of Science too. I feel grateful that we are reaching out to all!

Don't wait any longer. Scroll down and read some of our recent testimonials. Go to www.qmedcourses.in and register. You will contribute to your own learning and the improvement of research, academics. publications and practice in India!

Vasumathi Sriganesh

Lecture Webinars

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) Guwahati

Date: 28-Aug-2020
No of Participants: 1000

VSPM's Dental College & Research Centre

Date: 17-Aug-2020
No of Participants: 541

Institute of Science, Nirma University

Date: 13-Aug-2020
No of Participants: 103

From our Blog

Paperity- A multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers.

Paperity is an aggregator of journals and papers from different disciplines.

Coverage:

It includes subjects like Sciences, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts.

All articles indexed here are Open Access. Paperity makes sure to index only genuine scholarly literature. It does not include student assignments, business presentations or cooking recipes classified as scholarly papers.

The plus point of Paperity is, it assigns permanent URLs to article pages which never changes so that everyone can safely link to them without the risk of it becoming invalid.

How to use:

The search is user friendly and easy to use. You can simply search by Journal name, year of publication, country, language or publisher.

Webinar Sagas - Coping with technological and pandemic challenges in 2020!

With the advent of the lockdown, between May 2020 and today I have been invited to do a number of webinars. Six to be exact, till date. In the earlier days I had done about two or three over some years. They were sponsored by the industry and done with the involvement of professional camera people and settings. However in the pandemic times, the organizers in five out of six cases did not involve people who were adept in this area.

I must commend the way institutions have taken to arranging webinars and that some of them have opened the attendance to the world in general. However this has its tough and funny elements too :)

The first webinar during the lockdown was for FINE - Forum for Indian Neurology Education. On this day my Internet connection at home was a bit poor and so some parts of the webinar were probably not too clear. And at the request of the organizer I had actually created screen capture recordings of two topic searches, but these simply would not display well or be heard well enough :( On my side I offered to re-record the webinar and pass on the recording to the organizers so that they could share it with all, but they did not wish to impose further on me.

The second was for the DY Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune. This time, the institution ran into a technical hitch with broadcasting the webinar. Quite a few people missed the beginning. From this one I learnt that if our team organizes one, we must know what all can go wrong and do our best to avoid such issues.

Testimonials Received for our Online Courses

Shijin N. Nadar, Government Medical College, Miraj

This course is 100% recommended to all medical students both UGs & PGs as well as to any one who has interest in research fields. The way this course is delivered by Mrs. Vasumathi Sriganesh is commendable.

Testimonial given for the Online Course – Information Resources and Literature Searching

Manisha Kar, AIIMS, Bhubaneshwar

The formulation of course is excellent and it was a great learning experience because of the lucid presentation by the faculty.

Testimonial given for the Online Course –Mastering PubMed

Asha P Shetty, AIIMS, Bhubaneshwar

It was an excellent opportunity to learn, though virtual, the trainer is so instrumental in making clear the concepts and including demo in each session. Short modules are very user friendly aimed at expected outcome of the learner.

Testimonial given for the Online Course – Reference Management with Mendeley

More Testimonials: https://www.qmed.ngo/studentsspeak/

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