Mar 28, 2023: March updates

March has been a great month in some ways and tough in other ways. Great because we had one new institution joining us for our ELearning courses, and two renewing access for the same. The new institution to take up our courses is the Dr DY Patil Medical College from the city of Pune. The two to renew are Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College, Puducherry and the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi. We are already in conversation with them to see how we can work together to encourage maximum learning from our courses. More importantly we are stressing this…
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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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Jan 23, 2023: Program story – Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences – a Model Institution

The Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences (SMIMS) located in Gangtok is, for QMed a dream institution! They were amongst the first institutions, which subscribed to our ELearning courses, when we had them hosted with Mediknit. At that time, they were the only institution that ensured that majority completed all courses. At the end of one year, they took a break. Later when we launched our courses on www.qmedcourses.in, they came back to us for two whole years. Some of the feedback we received by participants of the program: I highly appreciate the initiative as this would largely enable researchers…
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