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Health Sciences Librarians – II. Involvement in teaching students about EBM

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This is my second post about elevating Health Sciences Libraries and Librarians in India. Here I would like to share an example from an article in the Journal of the Medical Library Association (USA) - about a study by a librarian and his medical colleagues. (Read my first post here)…

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Health science libraries and librarians – rewrite the expectations!

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Should the library be closed? This was a question I found in the main library file, when I joined the Hinduja Hospital as Librarian in March 1992. That was nearly three decades ago. The reason stated was - the library was not being utilized enough. Having just joined, the question…

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Inviting your inputs: for a more holistic approach to expand QMed’s work

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Holistic approach to education I recently happened to attend a “peer learning network session” where the participants were people from not-for-profit organizations worldwide. I attended this virtual session, not expecting much because I knew that the context of discussion would mainly be based on primary education. But to my surprise,…

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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…

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Case study: library usage at an Indian medical college

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Shah C, Parmar HD. Case study: library usage at an Indian medical college. Health Info Libr J. 2011 Mar;28(1):77-81. The article discusses library usage in a medical school in a small town (Bhavnagar). It covers the use of a physical collection, since computers were added to the library after this…

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Health Sciences Librarians – II. Involvement in teaching students about EBM

Health science libraries and librarians – rewrite the expectations!

Inviting your inputs: for a more holistic approach to expand QMed’s work

Medical colleges & research outputs – need for escalation!

Case study: library usage at an Indian medical college

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