Oct 15, 2025: An Anesthesiologist saves a limb – thanks to search skills!

We recently got this story from - an anesthesiologist Dr Jitendra Bapat, who had not only attended our workshop but also organized one of ours at a preconference event last year. He is a major supporter of our workshops! He shared a case, where he truly felt the impact of our teaching. We are delighted to share this with our donors and supporters. Hello from Dr Bapat. I must share this story with you. While I was on an emergency duty, a patient’s arm turned blue after surgery. All his test readings appeared normal. A Doppler showed a venous clot,…
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Jun 30, 2025: A Workshop and some Nostalgia!

Jun 30, 2025: 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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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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