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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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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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Apr 16, 2025: QMed’s impact. A young doctor wishes to help his institution’s library

I am delighted to share this month's "DonorCONNECT" story - one that  touches our hearts. There are some days when we have unexpected calls / emails / visitors. A recent event was when a young doctor we knew, wrote to us after quite some time. He had attended our PubMed workshop a few years ago. He later enrolled in www.qmedcourses.in for advanced learning. For both events he gave us excellent feedback and had kept in touch with us off and on. When he called, he shared with me about having joined his Alma Mater as a resident a few years ago…
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