Sharpen the Saw

Sharpen the Saw

Sounds familiar? Yes - it is the 7th Habit - from Stephen Covey's book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". Covey emphasizes the need to sharpen ourselves from time to time. He describes an incident of a man continuously cutting the branches of trees with a saw. When another man suggests that he stops to sharpen the saw to make things quicker, he responds - "Can't you see I am busy cutting the branch? I do not have time to sharpen the saw"! Let us stop and think. Many of us fall into this trap. We are so busy…
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Spreading Awareness of QMedCourses: A Journey of Resilience and Commitment

Spreading Awareness of QMedCourses: A Journey of Resilience and Commitment

We hope you are doing very well. We sincerely appreciate your support for QMedCourses as we strive to enhance medical research nationwide. We would like to update you on our recent progress and the challenges we have successfully overcome. We had started QMedCourses in June 2020. In the first two years – thanks to the pandemic, medical colleges (rightly) focused their priorities on handling the same. In fact, thanks to the situation, they had several tough decisions to make – like whether to keep students on campus or send them home! Post pandemic, they took time to get things back…
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QMed gets its first educational grant

QMed gets its first educational grant

It has been a couple of months since we wrote to you. In the end of March, I had mentioned about having been ill. It did take a while to regain strength, catch up on some backlog and more. However, it was a demanding time. We have had delays with our communications – our blogs and donor connect emails. My apologies. I thank you for your understanding. Here comes a great piece of news! I am happy to share that in April, QMed got its first ever, large Education Grant! We got this grant from Pfizer. Getting our first large…
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