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Medical research: is it done correctly?

Medical research: is it done correctly?

1 - VS Shares
A lot of discussions happen about medical research in India. About how we do not have a conducive environment / encouragement and more. I am not commenting on any of the earlier discussions. I would like to stress on one activity in medical research that is most often not done right. It concerns me on a continuous basis. That activity is "Literature searching" While searching the literature, most "Google". Often when I ask people how they do a literature search in PubMed (or other databases) they say "we type in keywords and search". They say it in a tone that…
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We are delighted to discover that our teaching spreads…

We are delighted to discover that our teaching spreads…

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Recently three Postgraduate residents from a Dental College visited our office. Their research guide told them to consult me as each one of them was working on a systematic review. They needed help with search strategies that they had worked on. The residents explained that as part of a project submission, they were required to do either a "Literature Review" or a "Systematic Review", and their institution wanted them to work on the latter. I had done a workshop in this institution in 2017, and this was a follow up from their side. I checked each resident's search strategy. As expected,…
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Medical colleges & research outputs – need for escalation!

Medical colleges & research outputs – need for escalation!

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Medical Research in Medical College in India: Current Scenario and Ways to Improve it Ghosh K, Ghosh K. J Assoc Physicians India. 2019 Apr;67(4):71-73. PMID: 31299844. The authors actually drop a bombshell when they say that they reviewed and discovered that 60% of research papers in indexed journals are published by just 6 - 10 medical colleges, when we have around 450 medical colleges in India! Now that is something to be concerned about! The authors have reviewed several papers and listed as well as cited various reasons for lack of good research out in the country's medical colleges. They…
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