Donor Connect: Our fortnightly updates to donors
Dear Donors - In case you have missed any of our mailers, you could check this page and catch up. And if you are someone who has stumbled upon this page for the first time, we invite you to join us in our journey. Give us a donation to sustain our work. Contribute your time/ expertise. Connect us with people who matter - in the National Medical Commission / ICMR or any of the Councils. Help us reach medical / nursing / dental / pharmacy and other colleges. In short - Become a part of the history we are creating! We welcome you!
Sep 15, 2025: Your support + WeDoGood = Stronger QMed
At QMed, we are often advised to “get volunteers” for our work. But this was never easy for us. Almost every task we take up requires specific skills and professional expertise. We always felt uncomfortable asking people to give such work for free.
Then came WeDoGood—and changed things for us.
For a small fee, their team worked hard to connect us with two skilled volunteers—Pallavi and Satheesh—who helped us with something very important: documenting the workflow processes behind our E-Learning courses. They met our team online, understood our needs, and produced clear, professional workflow documents.
This may sound simple, but for us it is a game-changer. Tomorrow, if we are able to bring more people on board, these documents will save valuable training time and ensure consistency in our work.
Encouraged by this success, we are now planning more projects with WeDoGood. The best part? They are even helping us by finding corporate donors who will fund them to do specific projects for us.
We wanted you—our valued supporters—to know about this development. It not only helps us stretch your donations further but also ensures that we get high-quality professional input for our mission.
– Vasumathi Sriganesh –
Sep 1, 2025: Behind the Scenes at QMed + My Podcast Story
I attended an event on 1st Sep, where a doctor was addressing a mixed audience – both medical and non medical, and the topic was about HealthCare IT and the ABDM. He started by saying “In this room I can see only around six doctors and so I have to stress – that there is so much that goes behind what you see that a doctor and medical team does.”
How right he was. But that is equally true for anyone else – (maybe to varied extents). Do read our last blog post – that describes a similar situation for QMed.
Recently I was invited to speak for a podcast that was done as a part of a series. The school I studied in, is celebrating the 40th year of the formation of the Alumni Association. I spoke about my life in school and more, and my evolution in my profession. I gave an important message to the current students – telling them (from my experience) that gaps in one’s career do not matter the way we feel they do. And putting in one’s best in any efforts pays. Do listen to the podcast – https://youtu.be/dSJJK9W6Xf8?si=jWqsAP2W4aSphUcQ
– Vasumathi Sriganesh –
Jul 21, 2025: Another workshop and different Nostalgia!
Date: Monday July 21, 2025
Category: Program Update
Keywords: Literature searching, Program story, QMedCourses
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 my talk – they agreed! They were delighted that I had put in enough emphasis on searching!
Then came the fun part. Out of four faculty for the day, one was from the host institution and three of us were invited speakers. As the three of us introduced ourselves to each other and chatted, we discovered that all of us had done our first degrees from the same college (Women’s Christian College) – in the city of Chennai! We could not stop marvelling at the coincidence.
We had all studied there at different times of course. When we later shared our picture in the college alumni group – we could not help feeling that we were all special!
Reminiscing further I feel that we had all been grounded well even in our first BSc degree and that’s what made us do well later in life too.
We went back home with a great feeling of having made our contributions for the day!
– Vasumathi Sriganesh –
Jun 30, 2025: A Workshop and some Nostalgia!
Date: Monday June 30, 2025
Category: Health Sector story
Keywords: Literature searching, Peer review
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 I was coached by another expert and remembered many steps. I planned my talk. Oh yes – this time I took the help of AI, and it made my job faster. But – I did tweak it a lot and proudly claim it IS “My talk”. I believe in doing it by myself, with help from AI.
After my talk there was a practical session where Satish, another librarian friend Medha, my colleague Dipti and I – all helped coordinate a literature searching demo cum practical.
The fun part of the day, was a fond memory – Medha, Satish and I had all started our careers in librarianship – not in a medical library, but in the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism. We recalled our respective days out there fondly, and sent a picture of the three of us, to another long time (now retired) librarian of the IIG – telling her – “We wish you were with us now for this picture!”
Some events are livened up thus!
– Vasumathi Sriganesh –