Jul 21, 2025: Another workshop and different Nostalgia!

Jul 21, 2025: 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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Mar 31, 2025: QMed completes utilization of its first Grant

March has been a busy month with two workshops and three lectures. We finished the last two workshops with the first ever grant money we received from Pfizer in 2023. These two were at the Tata Memorial Hospital and the Seth GSMC & KEM Hospital. A slightly disappointing part was that at both venues, while about 35 registered, we had far less that actually attended. In medical institutions sometimes other emergencies make this happen and it was sad that it happened in both these institutions.Of course those who came, made it up with 100% enthusiastic participation and encouraged others who…
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Aug 30, 2024: Program Update: “You have more faith in my abilities than I do”

The workshops at the KJ Somaiya Medical College and at the TNMC were both conducted with the grant money from Pfizer that we could not utilize earlier. Both events had great participation from students and faculty of the respective institutions. The Whatsapp group of the TNMC was full of messages after the workshop thanking the organizer Dr Renuka Munshi as well as Vasumathi Sriganesh for the workshop. One Dr Shubham asked for a workshop on Systematic Reviews & Meta analyses sometime in the future. Vasumathi responded saying that her expertise stops with the sound literature searching that is required and…
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