PubMed Workshop – March 23, 2013 at Jaslok Hospital

PubMed Workshop – March 23, 2013 at Jaslok Hospital

The third workshop of 2013 was held in Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai on Saturday, 23rd March 2013, between 4 pm and 7.30 pm. Vasumathi Sriganesh & Lakshmi conducted this one. We had been trying to do this for quite some time at Jaslok. Drs Sanjay Nagral and Rajesh Sainani helped us plan it out, and were assisted by Dr Pravin Agrawal. Though they initially hoped that a good number of DNB residents from their own hospital would sign up, the final participants were a mix of only a small group of residents, and more of faculty from their own hospital plus…
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Lectures at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Mar 19. 2013

Lectures at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Mar 19. 2013

Lectures: a) Literature Search and b) Reference Management with Mendeley at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Mar 19. 2013 Update from Vasumathi: AIIMS Bhubaneswar is one of the six AIIMS like apex healthcare institutes being established by the MOHFW.  The Department of Community Medicine organized a Research Methodology Workshop on the 18th and 19th of March, 2013. Initially planned for faculty of AIIMS, the workshop eventually had PGs, Residents and Faculty from five other colleges in Bhubaneswar and proximal areas (Cuttack, Behrampur and Burla), as well. There were 40 participants in all. I travelled to Bhubaneswar on the 18th evening and went to…
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A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log

A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log

Mosa AS, Yoo I. A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2013 Jan 9;13:8. Note from QMed: “Search tags” in PubMed are methods by which a user could ask for a search term to be (compulsorily) present  in the title or as a “MeSH term” (which means the article is “about” that term, whether the search term is present in the title or abstract or not). There are several search tags that can be used in PubMed to refine searches. This article is extremely unusual…
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