Participant Feedback: 12 Years of experience, yet new insights

Participant Feedback: 12 Years of experience, yet new insights

It was ICMR once again! But this time it was about a workshop funded by the ICMR. This was at NIPER, Guwahati. The ICMR has recently funded institutions for conducting week long workshops for those interested in authoring systematic reviews.  NIPER Guwahati was the first such institution to ensure that Literature searching – which is the foundation of a systematic review, was allotted a full day. And I was privileged to conduct this workshop! The session had about 28 participants from institutions in the North Eastern Region. In addition around 22 NIPER students & researchers were also present.  An eye opening…
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A researcher’s story: What Raghul Durairaj felt about QMedCourses

A researcher’s story: What Raghul Durairaj felt about QMedCourses

This is a story about a research scholar who does “Secondary research” – that is research about research publications. Across the world “Information Specialists” (most often librarians) have a strong role in such research. They help to search all synonyms and variations. They help in searching several databases and lots more. All this work helps to ensure that no publication is missed and evidence is created from all available data. Raghul Durairaj a researcher with a Masters in Public Health, went through our courses and shares his story: Two years ago, I embarked on evidence synthesis projects, participating in four systematic reviews across…
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“You have more faith in my abilities than I do”

“You have more faith in my abilities than I do”

The workshops at the KJ Somaiya Medical College and at the TNMC were both conducted with the grant money from Pfizer that we could not utilize earlier. Both events had great participation from students and faculty of the respective institutions. The Whatsapp group of the TNMC was full of messages after the workshop thanking the organizer Dr Renuka Munshi as well as Vasumathi Sriganesh for the workshop. One Dr Shubham asked for a workshop on Systematic Reviews & Meta analyses sometime in the future. Vasumathi responded saying that her expertise stops with the sound literature searching that is required and…
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