This is something I get to hear from many faculty members and sometimes from students who have heard my lectures or webinars more than once. More often it is faculty members who say this as they are the organizers of events and the people who invite me to speak. It of course feels wonderful receiving a compliment like this. But recently it had me wondering. I realized that the crux of my lectures on literature searching or reference management are the same. I teach the principles of searching and show a couple of features in PubMed. Or I teach the…

A live workshop after two-and-a-half years I recently did a live workshop at the King George's Medical University, Lucknow.  We covered Literature Searching in PubMed and Cochrane Library, and also Mendeley for Reference Management. It was wonderful doing one after a gap of two-and-a-half years. It is great when students/residents want a photograph with you. Getting such a request from them is a privilege. It feels wonderful when people tell you how much they learnt and how they look forward to revising/learning more from the "qmedcourses.in" website. How did the workshop happen at KGMU? I had done a shorter session…

Some time back we had a blog post - When Patients Google We had mentioned about how concerned doctors were about the misinformation that they could pick up - and rightly so. But, there are times when Internet research by the patient (or family member) can make a huge difference. Here is an excerpt from a Facebook post by Dr Sakthi (story taken with his permission) *********************************************************** Last weekend, an anxious couple met me for a consult. They had travelled 150km to meet me. The previous day, the mother, after picking up her daughter from school, noticed that the girl's innerwear…