A special Editorial-The Revised Guidelines of the Medical Council of India for Academic Promotions: Need for a Rethink

Aggarwal R et.al.The Revised Guidelines of the Medical Council of India for Academic Promotions: Need for a Rethink. Indian association of medical journal editors.2016 Jan 8;53(1);23-26Indian Pediatr. 2016 Jan 8;53(1):23-26 This article is simultaneously published in about 22 journals, but since we came across it first in the Indian Pediatrics, we have chosen this citation to share this article. The article covers five areas where the MCI has issued guidelines and made practical suggestions for each area - a) Where should the journals be indexed, b) Types of articles that would be considered, c) Better understanding of the terms -  National…
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Goa Medical College – Oct 31, 2014

Goa Medical College – Oct 31, 2014

For those who do not live in Goa, the place  is almost always associated with holidays. And those who go on a holiday to Goa would be most reluctant to leave the beaches and anything else they are enjoying.  My trip to Goa was for the wedding of the daughter of my childhood friend - someone who I shared almost every waking moment with, during high school and college days. Now getting away from her and that too on a Goa beach venue would not have been easy, but thank goodness, it was for something I had long wanted to…
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Workshops – March 2014

Workshops – March 2014

March 2014 was another dream month for QMed. There were many 'first time' moments for us in this month. For the first time an institution invited us to conduct three full-day workshops on PubMed Basics and Advanced. For the first time an institution had organized such a workshop for a large number of post-graduate students  (first and second and year students). The invitation was from Bapuji Dental College in Davangere, Karnataka to conduct workshops for MDS students and faculty of their college. We had a total of 99 participants. The interactions, the participation, the response - everything was great.  The…
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