Lectures – February and March 2014

Lectures – February and March 2014

The dream run of lectures/talks continued in the months of February and March. We delivered 20 lectures out of which 18 of them were in medical colleges in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. One lecture was at a first time event called the Symposium and Training on Research Methodology (STORM), at Index Dental College, in Indore. Another interesting talk titled 'Decoding PubMed' was at an event organized by Narayana Nethralaya in Bangalore. The audience at most of these lectures (except STORM and Narayana Nethralaya ) were PG students who will be appearing for their exams in the coming months or had finished…
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Lectures for Health Consumers – Jan 2014

Lectures for Health Consumers – Jan 2014

In January 2014, we did three lectures for health consumers on how to search online for reliable health information. We had already done one at HELP (Health Education Library for People) in Dec 2013, and with the encouraging feedback, we could offer this to more organizations. The first (Jan 15) was at Oracle Financial Services, where a group of about 15 people attended the lecture. The group not only was very attentive, soaking in every bit of what we shared, but asked a lot of questions. The nicest part of the lecture was at the end, when we asked for…
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Workshops – January 2014

Workshops – January 2014

1. Hinduja Hospital College of Nursing -  21-Jan-2014 This  was a 'Pre-PhD' research methodology workshop. Two candidates registered for a PhD Program (one was an external candidate), faculty of the HCON and MSc Nursing students participated in this workshop. What was a recognition for us is that in the five day workshop, we got a large slot of four hours! We appreciate this as we always believe that the foundations of good research activities begins with a good literature search. The stronger people get in this, the better their research output. We covered some basics about information resources and literature…
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