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Mar 04, 2025: A workshop where it matters. Where research is for rural public health

Mar 04, 2025: A workshop where it matters. Where research is for rural public health

After 12 long years, Vasumathi Sriganesh, our CEO visited SEARCH, Gadchiroli - this time to conduct a one day workshop on PubMed & Zotero. Her earlier visit in 2012, was to explore SEARCH, spend time there, and understand if QMed could help them in any way. She spent a full week and had written some blog posts on her personal blog.This time the workshop was on the 27th of February. She reached there on the 26th and left on the 28th morning. On the 27th, around 15 people attended the workshop. The audience had a mix of young doctors, public health researchers and a Statistician,…
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Nov 19, 2024: A researcher’s story: What Raghul Durairaj felt about QMedCourses

This is a story about a research scholar who does "Secondary research" - that is research about research publications. Across the world "Information Specialists" (most often librarians) have a strong role in such research. They help to search all synonyms and variations. They help in searching several databases and lots more. All this work helps to ensure that no publication is missed and evidence is created from all available data. Raghul Durairaj a researcher with a Masters in Public Health, went through our courses and shares his story: Two years ago, I embarked on evidence synthesis projects, participating in four systematic reviews across…
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Jun 20, 2024: The Health Sector Needs Story: an Urgent Upgrade in Learning about Systematic Reviews

In my last story, (https://www.qmed.ngo/donor-connect/  - May 30) , I had written about an important progress in India. I had  mentioned that the ICMR has started providing funding for: Authors of systematic reviews  And for the conducting of courses for authors, to write good reviews.  I had also stressed upon the need for very systematic search strategies, for such work and that the majority in India are not trained in this activity. We at QMed not only offer such help and training; but we are also constantly upgrading our knowledge so that we can offer the best of help. Soon after…
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