Immediate Quizzes in Action: Lessons from Four Recent Lectures

Immediate Quizzes in Action: Lessons from Four Recent Lectures

January 2026—after a brief gap—has been full of lecture and webinar invitations, and it has been immensely energising. Across these sessions, we continued to experiment with immediate quizzes in teaching, an approach we first reflected on in an earlier blog post after a couple of lectures in December 2025. These recent talks gave us an opportunity to apply the idea more systematically and observe how it worked with very different audiences. A Month of Diverse Audiences So far, our Founder has delivered lectures at four institutions: 4th January – Institute of Nutrition and Fitness Sciences 6th January – Ayurved Mahavidyalaya,…
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The Knowledge I Carry Today Must Not End With Me

The Knowledge I Carry Today Must Not End With Me

A conversation that stayed with me The world's largest storehouse of knowledge is in the graveyard, said a Professor friend. And that made me feel "The knowledge I carry today must not end with me.". I must share it In QMed’s August 2025 newsletter, I had mentioned that I had been interviewed for a podcast as part of my school’s celebration of 40 years of our Alumni Association. Later, a classmate and a good friend, Mohan, was also interviewed as part of the same podcast series, and he happened to mention the above lines. Mohan had spent a part of…
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“Immediate quizzes” reveal a hard truth about literature searching skills

Here is a story about how in recent lectures which were part of workshops, we used "Immediate quizzes" to reveal gaps in literature searching skills. And further stressed what we have known for years - that these skills need to be taught in the curriculum In December, our Founder delivered two lectures as part of two workshops at a Dental College — one on Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analysis (SRMA) and the other a Research Methodology (RM) workshop. In both lectures, we introduced a small but significant change. Along with the lectures, we used "Immediate quizzes" to assess how well participants…
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