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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Feb 9, 2023: Founder story – Presenting the need for a curriculum change: Invited to speak to a group of doctors

Feb 9, 2023: Founder story – Presenting the need for a curriculum change: Invited to speak to a group of doctors

When in school, I wanted to study Medicine. I could not pursue this field, for a number of personal reasons. My family humorously mentions that I got into Medicine “through the back door”. That is true - my life has just evolved in this profession. To the extent that I recently had an opportunity to speak about introducing a change in the curriculum. A friend of mine - Dr Ravi Shankar, is an alumnus from my school. We have been in touch over years. He recently happened to read one of my LinkedIn posts highlighting an interesting article about ethics…
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