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A wonderful two days with UG students – at Quest Unplugged

A wonderful two days with UG students – at Quest Unplugged

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June 1 and 2 of 2016 were two wonderful and rewarding days I spent. Quest Medical Academy - the brainchild of Dr Sushant Shinde had organized an event - Quest Unplugged.This is an annual event (this was the second) where  small groups of students chose topics, did some research on them and then presented the topics, based mainly on one core article that they chose, but also quoted others.The topics ranged from broad ones like Nutrition in the ICU, to very specific ones like Asthma - COPD overlap syndrome! Overall eight topics were presented on each day. Majority were equivalent…
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Event: MBBS Students of DY Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai – on Public Health Challenges

Event: MBBS Students of DY Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai – on Public Health Challenges

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Networking with students and recent graduates (Yes - Social Networking being a predominant part) sometimes "takes me places". I recently got introduced to Anita Kumar who is a III MBBS Student at the Dr DY Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai. She invited me for an event that she and her colleagues organized today at the college. The team - "The Student Scientific Committee" in collaboration with the Dept of Community Medicine, presented a program "Public Health Challenges: Young Minds at Work" I had no clue what it was about, and Anita had  not given me details.  And it happened to…
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Teaching evidence based medicine literature searching skills to medical students during the clinical years – a protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Teaching evidence based medicine literature searching skills to medical students during the clinical years – a protocol for a randomised controlled trial

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Ilic D, Tepper K, Misso M. Teaching evidence based medicine literature searching skills to medical students during the clinical years - a protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Med Educ. 2011 Jul 28;11(1):49 This article is a protocol for an RCT which will be conducted in the Monash University, to assess the need, importance and various other aspects of teaching 3rd MBBS students about how to ask a focused question and how to do a literature search for EBM. The comparison will be done between a study group that receives training and a control group that does not. The…
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