Your support + WeDoGood = Stronger QMed

Your support + WeDoGood = Stronger QMed

At QMed, we are often advised to “get volunteers” for our work. But this was never easy for us. Almost every task we take up requires specific skills and professional expertise. We always felt uncomfortable asking people to give such work for free. Then came WeDoGood—and changed things for us. For a small fee, their team worked hard to connect us with two skilled volunteers—Pallavi and Satheesh—who helped us with something very important: documenting the workflow processes behind our E-Learning courses. They met our team online, understood our needs, and produced clear, professional workflow documents. This may sound simple, but for us it…
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Behind the Scenes at QMed + My Podcast Story 

Behind the Scenes at QMed + My Podcast Story 

I attended an event on 1st Sep, where a doctor was addressing a mixed audience – both medical and non medical, and the topic was about HealthCare IT and the ABDM. He started by saying “In this room I can see only around six doctors and so I have to stress – that there is so much that goes behind what you see that a doctor and medical team does.” How right he was. But that is equally true for anyone else – (maybe to varied extents). Do read our last blog post – that describes a similar situation for QMed. Recently I was…
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QMed Completes Five Years of Launching QMedCourses

QMed Completes Five Years of Launching QMedCourses

QMedCourses Turns 5 – Thanks to Your Support, We’ve Created Impact That Matters! On June 14, 2020, right in the heart of the pandemic, we launched our ELearning platform –www.qmedcourses.in– built entirely through a “work-from-home” effort. Today, we are proud to share that in just five years:  We have had around 45 institutions – small to large and a total of around 10,000 individuals register with us. Our work was cited in the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India (JAPI) – PMID: 39563131 Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College made it mandatory for PG theses to include a documented search strategy. The Lancet Citizens’ Commission engaged us to coach researchers…
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Our Founder gives a talk about Library and Information Sciences as a Career

Our Founder gives a talk about Library and Information Sciences as a Career

A couple of weeks back I was invited by a friend  Dr Shubhada Nagarkar to participate in an event she planned for and deliver a short talk.  Dr Shubhada is a Prof of Library and Information Sciences in the Savitribai Phule University, Pune. She planned this event to attract more students to the profession and so the talk was for Undergrad students of any discipline. The event was online and held on May 15. There were around 37 participants. There were five speakers Dr Mehtab Alam is the Head of an LIS department of AMU. He talked about the profession and…
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Miles to go! Deep Diving! Spreading our wings! All for India’s research outputs

Miles to go! Deep Diving! Spreading our wings! All for India’s research outputs

Systematic Reviews are publications arising from “Secondary Research”. Which means a team of authors identifies all research papers on a topic and then together analyze and synthesize the findings in each, in order to generate evidence of what is useful. In India, recently there has been an upward movement in this area. Healthcare faculty are encouraged to author systematic reviews. And recently the ICMR is not only funding such secondary studies, but is also calling out to medical colleges to offer training in this area. Just like the foundation of a building needs to be very strong, for the building…
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