Enhancing QMedCourses to deliver more value

Enhancing QMedCourses to deliver more value

In the last two years, our ELearning courses have elicited great feedback. Occasionally our participants have given suggestions for enhancing one or more aspects and we have made quite a few changes based on these. In fact, we have given “badges of appreciation” to those whose ideas we used. We also had been noting down our own ideas on how we could enhance the courses. One important idea was to add lots more questions to the Final Assessment Quiz of each course. By doing this, we could allow participants to attempt an assessment as many times as they wished to.…
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Mendeley – Desktop vs Mendeley Reference Manager

Mendeley – Desktop vs Mendeley Reference Manager

In September 2022 Mendeley - announced that its "Mendeley Desktop" version would no longer be available to download. This had been the version that was around for years and QMed has been teaching the use of this tool for quite some time. The new version - the "Mendeley Reference Manager" was launched more than a year ago. Ever since, both versions were available for downloading. But on September 1, Mendeley removed the option of downloading the older version Normally a new version has lots more features or is better in one more ways. As we analyzed it in QMed, we…
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Sharing a small story from our donor – NRK Raman

Sharing a small story from our donor – NRK Raman

For long, we have shared stories about those who we have helped, about ourselves and about the context in which we work. How about a story from a donor?  I am happy to share something about NRK Raman an old friend. He was my husband’s colleague for several years and his family and ours still share a great rapport. I had attended his wedding, and his daughter’s wedding and he and his wife are proud grandparents too.  Raman was always interested in the work I did and once I set up the QMed Foundation he was even more interested. He has been a regular donor and has also been my…
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