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Learn how Research Becomes Richer with Lived Experience

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I recently came across an interesting article evaluating a Research Methods Training Course for novice lived experience researchers (LERs). The findings were encouraging: participants found the training useful, felt more confident about research, and valued the way the course centred their lived experience.Grundy AC, et al. Evaluation of a 'Research Methods' Training Course for Novice Lived Experience Researchers. Health Expect. 2025;28:e70362. doi: 10.1111/hex.70362. PMID: 40874550 Who are Lived Experience Researchers? They are individuals who have personally lived through the issue being studied—such as a health condition, disability, caregiving, or social challenge—and then take on an active role in research. Their…
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Medical students can be mentored to enjoy research!

Medical students can be mentored to enjoy research!

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Evaluation of a mentored student project programme using reflective summariesDevi V, Abraham RR.  Natl Med J India. 2020 Mar-Apr;33(2):102-106. This article is one amongst a very few* in PubMed that describes a project where medical students have been taught to write "reflective summaries" after doing a research project. Very simply put a reflective summary is a a write up "about the research experience" that each student went through. This - they had to do after completing a research project, writing an abstract and presenting a poster on the same. All students were part of an MSP - mentored student programme.…
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Infodemic – the avalanche! Who can help?

Infodemic – the avalanche! Who can help?

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The library's role in countering infodemics Walker P. J Med Libr Assoc. 2021 Jan 1;109(1):133-136 The World Health Organization recently labeled the COVID-19 pandemic as an 'Infodemic'. As the term suggests, an infodemic translates to an aggressive growth in the amount of information available regarding a topic of interest, so much so that a potential solution becomes more and more convoluted. This article divulges the massive growth in COVID data. It reads that, as of the 28th of August 2020, a simple search with the keyword 'COVID-19' provides 47,405 results in PubMed; 1,717 yields on bioRxiv.org; 6368 on medRxiv.org, and…
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