Literature searching and the ideal researcher

Literature searching and the ideal researcher

A student, academician or a practitioner of any health sciences stream often needs to search the literature. An ideal researcher should spend a small percentage of time in this activity, and much more on the main research and writing. What is the profile of an ideal researcher in this context?  Someone who has the "information needs", clearly laid out.  Before searching the literature, one has to document the information need clearly. We need to identify literature to reference in the a) introduction and discussion areas, and b) literature that would be closest to our main area of work. The literature…
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Sengupta’s Research Academy

Writing a research project, may be a thesis or an article is something each health professional has to do throughout their medical career (or at least once during one's working life!).  However, many professionals find it difficult due to absence of proper understanding of research writing.  With years of research experience Dr. Sabhyasachi Sengupta felt that, lack of adequate training at in “research techniques” during undergraduate and postgraduate education creates big hurdle in research publication. Sensing this lacuna, he come up with the solution "Sengupta’s Research Academy" . "Sengupta’s Research Academy" is a web based portal dedicated to different aspects of medical…
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Long Term Impact of QMed in a Researcher’s Journey

Long Term Impact of QMed in a Researcher’s Journey

  It is my pleasure to write a review of how the QMed Course(s) continue to guide me after more than four years of my having taken them. After my PubMed & MeSH course, I could retrieve relevant papers with exceptional ease and better precision towards the desired objective. This was something that had bothered me for years. However after the course, it became so much easier, that I began to search imaginary topics just for fun. While literature review was one of the early benefits, over a period I began referring other online course material on QMed website, especially due…
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