Lecture – Literature Search – at Dr Vasantrao Pawar Medical College, Nashik – Mar 3, 2013

Lecture – Literature Search – at Dr Vasantrao Pawar Medical College, Nashik – Mar 3, 2013

Dr. BK Nayak, former editor of the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology initiated a series of workshops on Research Methodology, during his tenure as Editor of this journal. The workshops are conducted twice a year. The current editor Dr. S. Natarajan continues this trend. Dr. Nayak now continues this through the Maharashtra Ophthalmic Society too, and with the Dean of the Medical College, Dr Mrunal Patil, also an office bearer of the MOS, planned this one day event. Vasumathi Sriganesh has always been a part of  the IJO team and now is also with the MOS efforts. Both the Ophthalmological associations…
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PubMed & Cochrane Library – Workshop at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Feb 24, 2013

PubMed & Cochrane Library – Workshop at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Feb 24, 2013

Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences was the venue for our second workshop for 2013. On Feb 24, Lakshmi and Vasumathi conducted a one day workshop on Searching PubMed and the Cochrane Library. There were thirty participants - Librarians, PG students, Registrars, and Faculty members. Kudos to the Chief Librarian, Ms Indira Nair for making all efforts to organize this event.  What we enjoyed most was that the participants were so deeply involved that we actually managed to finish the workshop almost two hours before schedule. We then spent one hour showing them some more little tricks and also having discussions…
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Lecture – Institute of Nursing Education, JJ Hospital, Feb 20, 2013

Lecture – Institute of Nursing Education, JJ Hospital, Feb 20, 2013

Lecture on Literature searching at the Institute of Nursing Education, JJ Hospital Campus, Mumbai Vasumathi Sriganesh delivered a lecture at the Institute of Nursing Education, in the JJ Hospital Campus, Byculla, Mumbai.  She shares: "Though I have been to the JJ Hospital and Grant Medical College several times, this was the first time I got to visit the INE - a small campus on its own, located just behind the main campus. I was thrilled to see a separate library building too (though I could not visit it). The participants of the program were faculty of the INE. The Institute…
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