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Lecture: LTMMC (Sion Hospital). Event – DNB Research Methodology Workshop. Aug 13, 2013

Lecture: LTMMC (Sion Hospital). Event – DNB Research Methodology Workshop. Aug 13, 2013

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It actually happened again!  I got invited to do a second lecture at the LTMMC. (And a third that is scheduled for the 28th of August). The 2nd lecture was on the 13th of August at a 2-day session on Research Methodology for DNB Students from Maharashtra. There were around 35 students. After a bit of tweaking of schedules, my lecture was from 12.00 noon till 1.30 PM. The students had already had two lectures by two great speakers - Dr Avinash Supe, who also is the Dean of LTMMC and Dr Mamta Manglani. Both being experienced speakers on the…
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Cases Database – a Database of Case Reports

Cases Database – a Database of Case Reports

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Cases Database Available at www.casedatabase.com, Cases Database, is database of thousands of medical case reports from multiple publishers, including Springer, BMJ and PubMed Central. Freely accessible and  continuously-updated, this is an initiative of  the Open Access Publisher - Biomed Central.  (As of 6 Aug 2013 - 27784 peer-reviewed medical case reports from 250 journals) The About US section of the Cases Database mentions "Documenting a patient's case history to inform physicians how the patient has been evaluated and the subsequent progression of his or her disease is arguably the oldest method of communicating medical evidence. And in the 21st century case reports play an equally important…
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Tata Memorial Hospital. Event – 7th Clinical Research Workshop. Aug 3, 2013

Tata Memorial Hospital. Event – 7th Clinical Research Workshop. Aug 3, 2013

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On Saturday Aug 3, I was invited to deliver a lecture on Literature Searching at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. This was at the 7th Annual Short Course in Clinical Research Methodology conducted on the 3rd and 4th of August. This is the first time I could be there early enough to attend from the inaugural talk onwards There were a little over 140 participants and we were told that the registration is increasing annually. This seems like a great sign - many people getting interested in learning about research methods. The program began sharp on time at 9 AM…
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