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QMed Knowledge Foundation: A Unique Change Making NGO in India

The problem in India : Healthcare has to be provided based on "the best available evidence" - evidence of what has worked well for a large population. Doctors and health professionals need "evidence based research" in order to give their best. They need to search online to find the latest / best evidence. This requires a thorough knowledge of available information resources and the best methods to search them systematically.

We would naturally assume that this is part of the medical training. Ironically, these skills of structured medical literature searching and referencing are barely taught in health science courses in India.

What QMed does: QMed Knowledge Foundation is making a change. Since 2008, QMed has shared its skills in literature searching and referencing, conducting hundreds of workshops and lectures all over India. The most common feedback has been - “This should be a part of the curriculum; all of us need to learn this”. QMed next launched online courses to make such learning available all over India.We now have four online courses. And we are working at adding more. Since the launch we have had a steady average feedback rating of 9/10 for all parameters for our online courses.

We believe in engaging with our target audience to take things ahead, so that the Indian population has access to evidence based healthcare. We invite health science students and professionals to work with us in this mission.


What we do

The art of medical literature searching….simplified…


Timeline / Achievements

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  • September 2023

    Lectures/Workshops this month:

    1st Sep – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop for 28th IPHA IAPSM AP State Joint conference, GIMSR Visakhapatnam
    04th Sep – Literature Searching & Referencing – Lecture at APM’s Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Sion
    06th Sep – Search of Learning resource material – Webinar for first-year BSc (Hons) Nursing students of AIIMS Kalyani. 
    12th Sep – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at AFMC Pune
    15th Sep – Literature Searching & Referencing – Webinar for the Foundation Course at AIIMS Kalyani.
    16th Sep – Literature Searching – Webinar for DM/DNB students (Cardio, Endo) across India supported by USV
    22nd Sep- Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at Karamsad – Public Health

    Statistics – QMedCourses:

    8002 participants including 13 institutions and 1481 individuals.


  • August 2023

    Lectures/Workshops this month:

    02nd Aug – Literature Searching – Lecture at Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Pharmacy
    05th Aug – Literature Searching – Webinar for Pharmatech (organized by KEM hospital)
    08th Aug – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at AIIMS Rae Barelli (under the THIRST for AIIMS project supported by an Educational Grant from Pfizer)
    11th Aug – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at AIIMS Bhopal (under the THIRST for AIIMS project supported by an Educational Grant from Pfizer)
    12th Aug – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at AIIMS Bhopal (under the THIRST for AIIMS project supported by an Educational Grant from Pfizer)
    17th Aug – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at AIIMS Jodhpur (under the THIRST for AIIMS project supported by an Educational Grant from Pfizer)
    31st Aug – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at GITAM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Visakhapatnam

    Statistics – QMedCourses:

    7795 participants including 11 institutions and 1454 individuals.


  • July 2023

    Lectures/Workshops this month:

    14th July – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at AIIMS Raipur (under the THIRST for AIIMS project supported by an Educational Grant from Pfizer)
    19th July – Literature Searching – Lecture at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Guwahati 
    20th July – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at AIIMS Guwahati (under the THIRST for AIIMS project supported by an Educational Grant from Pfizer)
    22nd July – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at AIIMS Kalyani (under the THIRST for AIIMS project supported by an Educational Grant from Pfizer)

    Statistics – QMedCourses:

    7771 participants including 12 institutions and 1448 individuals.


  • June 2023

    Lectures this month:

    1st June – Literature Searching – Lecture at YMT Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital
    6th June – Literature Searching – Lecture at YMT Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital
    26th June – Literature Searching – Lecture at APM’s Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Sion

    Statistics – QMedCourses:

    7696 participants including 14 institutions and 1422 individuals.


  • May 2023

    Workshops/Lectures/Webinars this month:

    4th May – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at Ashok & Rita Patel Institute of Physiotherapy(Charotar University), Anand
    16th May – Literature Searching & Referencing – Workshop at D Y Patil Medical College, Pune
    18th May – Literature Searching – Lecture at KG Mittal Ayurvedic College

    Statistics – QMedCourses:

    7558 participants including 14 institutions and 1382 individuals.

    Ashok & Rita Patel Institute of Physiotherapy(Charotar University), Anand, Gujarat joins us for Institutional Access to our courses



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