Guest post: Students Research Forum of the SKN Medical College, Pune

Guest post: Students Research Forum of the SKN Medical College, Pune

QMed always enjoys doing events for or organized by Undergraduate medical students, because they are an audience that loves to learn, and they take great efforts to organize events. Here we share a Guest Post by the students of the SKN Medical College, Pune ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We, the members of the Student Research Forum - SKNMC Pune are a team dedicated to promoting research activities amongst undergraduate medical students and sensitising/educating them about research. As a part of this effort, we came up with an idea to organise a workshop on Citations, navigating PubMed and using Reference Management softwares (Mendeley), after…
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Guest post: Meet Jain & team thank QMed for the literature search techniques

Guest post: Meet Jain & team thank QMed for the literature search techniques

This post is contributed by Meet Jain and his team mates. This team (led by Kunal Marathe) won the first prize for their presentation at Quest Unplugged - an event conducted by Quest Medical - the brainchild of Dr Sushant Shinde, in Mumbai. The full team consisted of Kunal Marathe, Meet Jain, Tanmay Londhe and Ujjwal Sharnagat----------------------------------------------------------And the 1st prize goes to... "Stents! Stents! Stents!" shouted the crowd, much to our surprise. "Oh that one is unanimous! It's the Stents group!", announced one of our judges, Dr. Priya Tiwari. Our hearts stopped, quite ironic - considering the topic we spoke…
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Guest post: Dr Navjeevan Singh, UCMS, Delhi

Guest post: Dr Navjeevan Singh, UCMS, Delhi

The date - 4th Nov 2012 was a landmark day in the evolution of many of us, students and faculty, at the University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS), Delhi. Our institution has long taken pride in its research output.The 'Index Medicus' daysI recall the time when I would trawl Index Medicus in the search for literature without really having an inkling of how things worked. Sometimes they did, sometimes they did not. I would assume that if, with what I now recognize as my ham-handed ways, I could not find published work in my area of interest it did not exist.…
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