New Year, New Energy: Goals, Growth & Giving Back!

New Year, New Energy: Goals, Growth & Giving Back!

Another new financial year begins and we have already completed a month. This year we started off on a great note. We created a set of goals for the year 2025-26. Then, using the power of mind maps and some productivity techniques that I learnt from my mentor recently, we worked further. We split the goals month wise. We also worked out methods on tracking what we accomplished. We found that we had done pretty well for April! That felt really good and we are charged to do more next month!  In April an important development was figuring out how we could…
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One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)

One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)

The One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative by the Govt of India has created a buzz amongst the academic community in India. This initiative is geared towards enhancing research in all fields. This is about providing access to over 13000 journals from 30 reputed publishers, to academic institutions in India. Launched in Jan 2025, it currently is for government supported institutions. In the coming years, access will be provided to a bigger network of institutions. All details are available in the website – https://www.onos.gov.in/Recently our CEO, Vasumathi Sriganesh was invited to be a panelist on this topic at an event held in the…
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A Ten year old girl understands QMed’s objectives

A Ten year old girl understands QMed’s objectives

A couple of months ago, I traveled to Lucknow to attend a conference. During this time, I was collaborating on a project with a group of doctors. One of them, Dr. Sai, invited me to visit his home when he learned I would be in Lucknow. I gladly accepted and went over. Dr. Sai and his wife, Dr. Namrata, were warm and welcoming. As we chatted, their ten-year-old daughter returned from her music classes. She was a bright and friendly child who quickly struck up a conversation with me. She shared stories about her school, music lessons, and an upcoming…
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Spreading Awareness of QMedCourses: A Journey of Resilience and Commitment

Spreading Awareness of QMedCourses: A Journey of Resilience and Commitment

We hope you are doing very well. We sincerely appreciate your support for QMedCourses as we strive to enhance medical research nationwide. We would like to update you on our recent progress and the challenges we have successfully overcome. We had started QMedCourses in June 2020. In the first two years – thanks to the pandemic, medical colleges (rightly) focused their priorities on handling the same. In fact, thanks to the situation, they had several tough decisions to make – like whether to keep students on campus or send them home! Post pandemic, they took time to get things back…
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QMed gets its first educational grant

QMed gets its first educational grant

It has been a couple of months since we wrote to you. In the end of March, I had mentioned about having been ill. It did take a while to regain strength, catch up on some backlog and more. However, it was a demanding time. We have had delays with our communications – our blogs and donor connect emails. My apologies. I thank you for your understanding. Here comes a great piece of news! I am happy to share that in April, QMed got its first ever, large Education Grant! We got this grant from Pfizer. Getting our first large…
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