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My Internship at QMed Knowledge Foundation: An MLIS Student’s Experience

My Internship at QMed Knowledge Foundation: An MLIS Student’s Experience

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Intership - An exposure to Medical Research & Evidence Based Practice Completing my internship at QMed Knowledge Foundation as part of my MLIS program has been a deeply enriching experience. This MLIS internship experience introduced me to medical research, research literacy, and evidence-based practice in healthcare. Through my internship at QMed Knowledge Foundation, I gained practical exposure to medical information systems and understood the essential role information professionals play in supporting research and clinical decision-making. As an LIS student, I was curious to understand how an organization focused on medical information and evidence-based medicine operates in practice. My internship at…
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From Workshop to Publication: An Impact Story from INHS Asvini

From Workshop to Publication: An Impact Story from INHS Asvini

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Background: The INHS Asvini Workshop In November 2024, QMed conducted a focused workshop at INHS Asvini, the hospital of the Indian Navy in Mumbai. This program was supported through the educational grant received from Pfizer in 2023. The participants included faculty members and postgraduate students — clinicians actively engaged in research, academic writing, and thesis work. The workshop covered two core components that form the foundation of QMed’s teaching: Literature Search with PubMed and Reference Management (using Zotero). Both were designed to be practical, hands-on, and immediately applicable to ongoing research work. (More details) A Participant Returns Recently, one of…
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How Search Skills Helped an Anesthesiologist Save a Patient’s Limb

How Search Skills Helped an Anesthesiologist Save a Patient’s Limb

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In this guest post, we share a powerful real-life story from Dr. Jitendra Bapat, an anesthesiologist to show how "Search Skills" helped save a patient's limb. Dr Bapat had used the PubMed search skills he learned from QMed to find a crucial answer to treat his patient. He describes this as an invaluable experience. Incidentally this also led to his resident presenting this case study at a conference, and winning a prize I am Dr. Jitu Bapat, an anesthesiologist, and I would like to share how QMed’s training directly helped me in patient care. During an emergency duty, I received…
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