Another workshop and different Nostalgia!

Another workshop and different Nostalgia!

On the 15th of July, I was invited to give a talk at the SNDT Women’s University. The occasion was a one day workshop for faculty from different departments – (mainly Home Science). And it was on Writing and publishing. I had to speak on the topic “Literature Review” – which is an important part of any research paper. I divided my talk into two areas – Literature Searching and the Literature Review components. I stressed – that it would be easier for them to learn the latter anywhere, but the former – is barely taught. And when I finished…
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A Workshop and some Nostalgia!

A Workshop and some Nostalgia!

End of June, I was invited to deliver a lecture on “Selection of studies” for doing a systematic review. This was at a three day workshop on systematic reviews at ACTREC – which is a centre of the well known Tata Memorial Hospital in my city. A friend of mine – Satish is the librarian there and he was delivering the lecture on the topic I normally take – which is – Literature searching. I enjoyed this change. More so because about ten years ago I had actually done the screening of studies for a major review. At that time…
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QMed Completes Five Years of Launching QMedCourses

QMed Completes Five Years of Launching QMedCourses

QMedCourses Turns 5 – Thanks to Your Support, We’ve Created Impact That Matters! On June 14, 2020, right in the heart of the pandemic, we launched our ELearning platform –www.qmedcourses.in– built entirely through a “work-from-home” effort. Today, we are proud to share that in just five years:  We have had around 45 institutions – small to large and a total of around 10,000 individuals register with us. Our work was cited in the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India (JAPI) – PMID: 39563131 Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College made it mandatory for PG theses to include a documented search strategy. The Lancet Citizens’ Commission engaged us to coach researchers…
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