QMed’s blog posts

QMed began blogging in 2012, and over time, our format evolved. We realised that much of what we shared for learners was also meaningful for donors and supporters, so for a while, our communication streams merged. In 2024, we reintroduced a dedicated blog and began posting once a month. By 2025, after some reflection, we found a better balance — creating more content without overwhelming inboxes. Today, we email only selected categories, while all posts remain accessible here — fully searchable and easy to revisit anytime.
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From Workshop to Publication: An Impact Story from INHS Asvini

From Workshop to Publication: An Impact Story from INHS Asvini

Background: The INHS Asvini Workshop In November 2024, QMed conducted a focused workshop at INHS Asvini, the hospital of the Indian Navy in Mumbai. This program was supported through the educational grant received from Pfizer in 2023. The participants included faculty members and postgraduate students — clinicians actively engaged in research, academic writing, and thesis work. The workshop covered two core components that form the foundation of QMed’s teaching: Literature Search with PubMed and Reference Management (using Zotero). Both were designed to be practical, hands-on, and immediately applicable to ongoing research work. (More details) A Participant Returns Recently, one of…
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Empowering FFE Scholars: Building Research Skills Through QMedCourses

Empowering FFE Scholars: Building Research Skills Through QMedCourses

Empowering FFE Scholars Through QMedCourses The Foundation for Excellence (FFE), Bengaluru, has been supporting students who have high potential, but do not have the financial means for higher studies, for many years. By funding the education of students who gain admission into Medicine, Engineering, Technology and Law, FFE helps them pursue professional careers that might otherwise be out of reach. For the third year (with some gaps in between), QMed has had the privilege of working with FFE, empowering the FFE scholars with a strong foundation for research. Through this collaboration, FFE has sponsored access to QMedCourses for their students,…
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The Basics We Are Never Taught

The Basics We Are Never Taught

A “They Don’t Know What They Don’t Know” Problem in Medical Search Literacy When 1005 Wasn’t One Thousand and Five This happened just a few days back. Our domestic help—educated only till primary school but otherwise very intelligent—once wrote down an expense as ₹1005. That surprised us. Whenever she spends money on our behalf and we later reimburse the same, it is usually a small amount, almost always under ₹300. So we asked her, - “What did you spend one thousand and five rupees on?” She immediately replied in Marathi,“Nahin — ek she paanch.”(No — one hundred and five.) She…
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