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A Workshop and some Nostalgia!

A Workshop and some Nostalgia!

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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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A workshop where it matters. Where research is for rural public health

A workshop where it matters. Where research is for rural public health

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After 12 long years, Vasumathi Sriganesh, our CEO visited SEARCH, Gadchiroli – this time to conduct a one day workshop on PubMed & Zotero. Her earlier visit in 2012, was to explore SEARCH, spend time there, and understand if QMed could help them in any way. She spent a full week and had written some blog posts on her personal blog. This time the workshop was on the 27th of February. She reached there on the 26th and left on the 28th morning. On the 27th, around 15 people attended the workshop. The audience had a mix of young doctors, public health researchers and a…
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A researcher’s story: What Raghul Durairaj felt about QMedCourses

A researcher’s story: What Raghul Durairaj felt about QMedCourses

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This is a story about a research scholar who does “Secondary research” – that is research about research publications. Across the world “Information Specialists” (most often librarians) have a strong role in such research. They help to search all synonyms and variations. They help in searching several databases and lots more. All this work helps to ensure that no publication is missed and evidence is created from all available data. Raghul Durairaj a researcher with a Masters in Public Health, went through our courses and shares his story: Two years ago, I embarked on evidence synthesis projects, participating in four systematic reviews across…
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