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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Twenty years since of PubMed access and are our health professionals “information savvy”

Twenty years since of PubMed access and are our health professionals “information savvy”

Around 20 years ago, the "Indian Express" had a special publication called "Web Vision". In the January 1998 issue, they had featured me in a column called "Web Spirit", in an article - "Internet throws up new job definitions". I had a copy of this issue, but it had at some time got misplaced in office. In our quest to find something else, it unexpectedly surfaced. I read the article again and I share my observations and feelings. The article described how as an independent consultant (that was what I was then), I helped doctors and companies search Medline. (At…
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Finding Our Way Through Shades of Gray: 6 Virtues to Guide Researchers in Planning, Conducting, and Writing Up Research.

O'Brien BC, Balmer DF, Maggio LA. J Grad Med Educ. 2017 Oct;9(5):555-559.  An article in a previous blog post offered a checklist of recommended practices that can help researchers to avoid the consequences associated with the ‘‘7 deadly sins’’ in medical research.  However, authors of this article felt that decisions in research are not always straightforward and also require consideration for uncertainty, complexity, circumstances, competing priorities, and values.  Hence,  they offer a set of six guiding principles to complement the recommendations on ‘‘7 deadly sins.’’ 1.Thoughtfully convening a research team:  While selecting team members a researcher should be clear about the goals of the research project and…
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