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Guest post: Meet Jain & team thank QMed for the literature search techniques

Guest post: Meet Jain & team thank QMed for the literature search techniques

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This post is contributed by Meet Jain and his team mates. This team (led by Kunal Marathe) won the first prize for their presentation at Quest Unplugged - an event conducted by Quest Medical - the brainchild of Dr Sushant Shinde, in Mumbai. The full team consisted of Kunal Marathe, Meet Jain, Tanmay Londhe and Ujjwal Sharnagat----------------------------------------------------------And the 1st prize goes to... "Stents! Stents! Stents!" shouted the crowd, much to our surprise. "Oh that one is unanimous! It's the Stents group!", announced one of our judges, Dr. Priya Tiwari. Our hearts stopped, quite ironic - considering the topic we spoke…
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A wonderful two days with UG students – at Quest Unplugged

A wonderful two days with UG students – at Quest Unplugged

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June 1 and 2 of 2016 were two wonderful and rewarding days I spent. Quest Medical Academy - the brainchild of Dr Sushant Shinde had organized an event - Quest Unplugged.This is an annual event (this was the second) where  small groups of students chose topics, did some research on them and then presented the topics, based mainly on one core article that they chose, but also quoted others.The topics ranged from broad ones like Nutrition in the ICU, to very specific ones like Asthma - COPD overlap syndrome! Overall eight topics were presented on each day. Majority were equivalent…
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But PubMed does not have free articles

But PubMed does not have free articles

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In a workshop on 'Literature Searching' for a group of DNB students I briefly explained the 'Filters' feature in PubMed. I gave an example of using this feature to locate 'free full text' articles. In this context a student remarked "Anyway 90% of articles in PubMed are not free, so this feature will not be of much use". I sigh again, thinking - "PubMed's role DOES NOT include providing free articles". And several students / health professionals do not know this. PubMed has been available free since 1997. That is nearly 20 years now. And yet, many health professionals (and…
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