QMed Webinars: Building Better Literature Searching Skills Through Live Learning

QMed Webinars: Building Better Literature Searching Skills Through Live Learning

Learning literature searching and reference management works best when it is interactive and immediate. As QMed prepares to host two literature searching webinars (and reference management too!) - every month, recent live sessions have shown us how strongly learners respond to active elements such as real-time searches and immediate quizzes. These insights are shaping how we design QMed’s webinars going forward. Why QMed Is Committing to Two Webinars Every Month We would like all enrolled participants (across all QMed courses) to have opportunities to interact, learn live, and work through our Immediate Quizzes. These quizzes help learners grasp the most…
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Immediate Quizzes in Action: Lessons from Four Recent Lectures

Immediate Quizzes in Action: Lessons from Four Recent Lectures

January 2026—after a brief gap—has been full of lecture and webinar invitations, and it has been immensely energising. Across these sessions, we continued to experiment with immediate quizzes in teaching, an approach we first reflected on in an earlier blog post after a couple of lectures in December 2025. These recent talks gave us an opportunity to apply the idea more systematically and observe how it worked with very different audiences. A Month of Diverse Audiences So far, our Founder has delivered lectures at four institutions: 4th January – Institute of Nutrition and Fitness Sciences 6th January – Ayurved Mahavidyalaya,…
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“Immediate quizzes” reveal a hard truth about literature searching skills

“Immediate quizzes” reveal a hard truth about literature searching skills

Here is a story about how in recent lectures which were part of workshops, we used "Immediate quizzes" to reveal gaps in literature searching skills. And further stressed what we have known for years - that these skills need to be taught in the curriculum In December, our Founder delivered two lectures as part of two workshops at a Dental College — one on Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analysis (SRMA) and the other a Research Methodology (RM) workshop. In both lectures, we introduced a small but significant change. Along with the lectures, we used "Immediate quizzes" to assess how well participants…
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