Dear friends
This issue once again reports for two months – February and March 2014. The list of our activities in this issue, will tell you how busy we have been. With the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences making it compulsory for faculty and PGs to attend Research Methodology Workshops, we have had a flood of invitations to deliver lectures at several institutions. On two days, between Lakshmi and me, we did three lectures and on many other days we did two! It is wonderful being able to share knowledge this way. Seventeen of the 21 listed lectures were for workshops which were for the MUHS mandate.
Noteworthy amongst others were lectures at ‘STORM’ Indore, an event organized by the Journal Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine with the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Pune for the National Science Day celebration and an event by a young group called ‘YOU’ (Young Ophthalmologists United) of the Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore.
‘STORM’ (Symposium and Training on Research Methodology) was an event organized by Dr. Puneet Gupta from Indore, and held at the Index Institute of Dental Sciences. The team from the Institute worked with Dr Puneet Gupta (himself a Dental faculty, but more importantly a lover of research and statistics) to create an event that was much appreciated. The J-AIM & Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Pune organized a novel event where they had the audience send in questions in advance and the faculty (which included me) answered all of them, leading to more questions and interactions. The theme was on Scientific Writing and Publication Ethics and the questions and discussions ranged from basic to specific issues. At Bangalore a group of young Ophthalmologists had a two day event where apart from research and writing, they had speake rs address them about issues like how to get fellowships, how to set up practice and more. The young audience obviously had a wonderful plateful, going by the happy smiles on their faces! I can only add that I am delighted that at each of these events, literature searching and reference management were considered important ‘must haves’ as part of the program. We are steadily achieving our goals!
Our E-Learning platform is evolving and we are putting in lots of hard work to make something that will hopefully benefit the entire country’s health professionals.
Vasumathi Sriganesh
