How to Peer Review Search Strategies

How to Peer Review Search Strategies

I recently did a short course on "How to Peer Review Search Strategies". This was offered by INSTATS - an organization that offers several excellent research related courses. What is Peer reviewing of search strategies? In India, we have a lacuna of knowledge about search strategies and the need for them to be structured. Most often very little thought is given to the strategy and it is done in an ad-hoc manner. Peer reviewing is something no one even thinks about.. The six hour session over two evenings - run by two expert Information Professionals - Carol Lefebvre - and…
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QMed Completes Five Years of Launching QMedCourses

QMed Completes Five Years of Launching QMedCourses

QMedCourses Turns 5 – Thanks to Your Support, We’ve Created Impact That Matters! On June 14, 2020, right in the heart of the pandemic, we launched our ELearning platform –www.qmedcourses.in– built entirely through a “work-from-home” effort. Today, we are proud to share that in just five years:  We have had around 45 institutions – small to large and a total of around 10,000 individuals register with us. Our work was cited in the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India (JAPI) – PMID: 39563131 Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College made it mandatory for PG theses to include a documented search strategy. The Lancet Citizens’ Commission engaged us to coach researchers…
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Non-profits: What Founders Go Through 

Non-profits: What Founders Go Through 

I recently came across a great post on LinkedIn by Ajit Sivaram – co-founder of U&I Trust. In this post he described what it is like to be a Founder of a not for profit organization in India. In approximately a dozen paras that he wrote, every line resonated with what I feel today. People ask me why QMed is a not for profit. Next time I am asked this question, I am going to use Ajit’s answer: “My work isn’t just charity. It’s necessary. It’s professional. It’s the hard, unglamorous labor of building the India we keep saying we want.”…
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