Unity is strength

Unity is strength

You must have read this story as a child. About an old man who lived with three sons - all hard workers but fought all the time. The old man tried a lot to unite them but he failed. And finally decided to teach them a lesson. He made them break single sticks from a bundle and they could do that easily. Then he gave them a full bundle and they could break them only when they worked together. I now address all those who are registered for our ELearning courses, and have not worked on them. Do you remember…
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Spreading Awareness of QMedCourses: A Journey of Resilience and Commitment

Spreading Awareness of QMedCourses: A Journey of Resilience and Commitment

We hope you are doing very well. We sincerely appreciate your support for QMedCourses as we strive to enhance medical research nationwide. We would like to update you on our recent progress and the challenges we have successfully overcome. We had started QMedCourses in June 2020. In the first two years – thanks to the pandemic, medical colleges (rightly) focused their priorities on handling the same. In fact, thanks to the situation, they had several tough decisions to make – like whether to keep students on campus or send them home! Post pandemic, they took time to get things back…
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March updates

March updates

March has been a great month in some ways and tough in other ways. Great because we had one new institution joining us for our ELearning courses, and two renewing access for the same. The new institution to take up our courses is the Dr DY Patil Medical College from the city of Pune. The two to renew are Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College, Puducherry and the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi. We are already in conversation with them to see how we can work together to encourage maximum learning from our courses. More importantly we are stressing this…
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Presenting the need for a curriculum change: Invited to speak to a group of doctors

Presenting the need for a curriculum change: Invited to speak to a group of doctors

When in school, I wanted to study Medicine. I could not pursue this field, for a number of personal reasons. My family humorously mentions that I got into Medicine “through the back door”. That is true – my life has just evolved in this profession. To the extent that I recently had an opportunity to speak about introducing a change in the curriculum. A friend of mine – Dr Ravi Shankar, is an alumnus from my school. We have been in touch over years. He recently happened to read one of my LinkedIn posts highlighting an interesting article about ethics…
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Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences – a Model Institution

Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences – a Model Institution

The Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences (SMIMS) located in Gangtok is, for QMed a dream institution! They were amongst the first institutions, which subscribed to our ELearning courses, when we had them hosted with Mediknit. At that time, they were the only institution that ensured that majority completed all courses. At the end of one year, they took a break. Later when we launched our courses on www.qmedcourses.in, they came back to us for two whole years. Some of the feedback we received by participants of the program: I highly appreciate the initiative as this would largely enable researchers to…
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