QMedCONNECT: Highlights of December 2020

Our year end issue 

Welcome to our December issue.

This year has been tough for everyone, and yet many have gone through lots of learning and productivity. At the end of the year, we are happy to share three learning options for you. Just note these down and learn when you can. 

In this issue: 

Think, Check, Submit: Often people have this question - "Where do we submit the article that we are working on?" We found this source that teaches us a lot about making this decision - Do read up about Think, Check Submit, listed below. 

CTRI: Heard of the Clinical Trials Registry of India? It was created to ensure that all research results emanating from clinical trials would be available to India and the world. But apparently we need more of teaching, motivation and mandates to ensure this happens. Read an interesting article about this. 

Our CEO's inputs: "Getting literature is easy - everything is available at a click of the mouse" . Really? Our CEO demystifies this and assures you that you are not alone when you struggle! 

Course - Introduction to Referencing: We are happy to share that we launched a new free course this month - "Introduction to Referencing". Do visit www.qmedcourses.in - check out the course. 

Importantly do share it with others. When you share the information, you are helping promote these skills across the country! A much needed action. 

Conducted a Clinical Trial in India? It maybe Yes and No!

The mystery of India’s missing clinical trial results
Shreya Dasgupta. BMJ 2020;371:m4835

Around eleven years ago  India had made a very welcome move - it was mandatory to register every clinical trial, in a national registry. The CTRI or the Clinical Trials Registry of India, created in 2007,  would then have a database of every trial registered, its progress at various stages and its results. The researchers could also link the registration record to a paper when it was later published in a journal.

We thank Denny John - Adjunct Assistant Professor at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala,for getting this article to our notice

Read more.

Do not wait any longer!

Everything is at one's finger tips today. Getting literature is easy, appraisal is the tough task. Search PubMed - you get all medical literature

These are perceptions of a large number of health professionals - and these are "facts" they tell students. At the receiving end, students who (obviously) accept everything that a senior says, believe these statements. And many often wonder if they are "unique" - in their inability to search and find results easily.

Worse still - are the statements - There are several tutorials on the net - on searching PubMed. In fact, the PubMed site itself has enough tutorials

We at QMed have one question. PubMed has been available free to anyone since 1997. Even if you discount the first couple of years - between 2000 and now - that is more than twenty years. If there are so many adequate tutorials online, why do we not have enough PubMed experts in the country? Forget experts - why do most not know several basics?

Read more.

Krishna Institute of Nursing Sciences, Karad

Date: 09-12-2020
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