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May 1, 2024: Program Update: THIRST for AIIMS – 10 Institutions completed

In April 2023, we received an Educational Grant from Pfizer to do our workshops and offer our ELearning courses in 10 AIIMS. We did six between July and August. We finished the last four later – Nov 7 in AIIMS Bathinda, Jan 29 in Bibinagar, Feb 24 in Bhubaneswar and April 11 in Mangalagiri. It was a lovely experience running the program in ten AIIMS in the country.  Apart from the fact that we had great feedback (you could see short video clips here), we ourselves learnt a lot – we got better and better at planning and executing every event. But the biggest learning for us is – how…
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March 1, 2024: Program Update – Single Sign On for our ELearning site for InstitutionsMarch 1, 2024:

At QMed, we continuously explore how we can make things better with our ELearning courses – www.qmedcourses.in One of the things we explored was the option of a Single Sign On, also known SSO. Several libraries have an SSO tool to allow their students and faculty to access various library resources they subscribe to. This helps in many ways Library users -  do not need to remember several different user ids and passwords The resource providers – do not need to physically enroll each person. They also need not worry about ineligible users having access – when students or employees…
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February 2, 2024:Why does the stick work better than the carrot?

On 23rd January Vasumathi Sriganesh delivered a lecture on literature searching at the Ayurved Mahavidyalaya in Mumbai for their Post graduate students. An enthusiastic lot, they scored very well in the small post test that we normally give at the end of such events. But here is something very thought provoking. In the Feedback Section of the form, we asked a question -  "Do you think Literature Searching should be taught in the curriculum"? All of them answered - "Yes" But - for the question -  "Will you register for our courses and complete them" - Only one student said Yes.…
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