AIIMS Kalyani introduces our talk on Literature Searching in its Foundation Course for I MBBS

AIIMS Kalyani introduces our talk on Literature Searching in its Foundation Course for I MBBS

The Foundation Course for I MBBS students – conducted by every medical college since the year 2019 – has an objective of sensitizing fresh medical students with the required knowledge and skills for their professional environment. It stresses on the medical graduate preparing to be a lifelong learner and developing strong leadership and communication skills.   In November, we received a call from AIIMS Kalyani – a medical college in the Eastern part of India, asking if we could deliver a lecture for their newly admitted I MBBS Students. We were delighted to take up this and I gave a…
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Sharing a donor story – S Viswanathan

Sharing a donor story – S Viswanathan

Just a month after we shared a donor story, we are lucky to get another one to share with you. Again an old friend – S Viswanathan was my husband’s colleague for several years and his family and ours still share a great rapport. Viswanathan – better known as Vishy amongst our group, has been a regular donor and often been one when I put out specific appeals. Every time we got a donation from him, we felt so good! Vishy has been another “sounding board” just like Raman – who I wrote about earlier. When I asked Vishy what made…
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Mindmapping and QMed

Mindmapping and QMed

I recently enrolled for a course on Advanced Mindmapping. I was interested in this skill for long and while I learnt the basics of it from Dr Manu Mathew a few years ago, I did not get deeper into it. Recently when I stumbled upon an online course, on this topic, I enrolled for it. It has been great learning, and it has been fun applying the learning too. Learning to use a Mindmapping software is not rocket science. A little bit of trial and error and you are ready to go. It is the application that makes the difference.…
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