The Knowledge I Carry Today Must Not End With Me

The Knowledge I Carry Today Must Not End With Me

A conversation that stayed with me The world's largest storehouse of knowledge is in the graveyard, said a Professor friend. And that made me feel "The knowledge I carry today must not end with me.". I must share it In QMed’s August 2025 newsletter, I had mentioned that I had been interviewed for a podcast as part of my school’s celebration of 40 years of our Alumni Association. Later, a classmate and a good friend, Mohan, was also interviewed as part of the same podcast series, and he happened to mention the above lines. Mohan had spent a part of…
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Finding Related Research and Identifying a Research Gap: Try “Connected Papers”

Short Summary Many researchers search PubMed to find articles on a topic, but few know how to visually map related research and identify gaps. In this post, I explore a real example using my paper on searching PubMed in radiology — and demonstrate how a tool like Connected Papers can help researchers refine or choose a research topic by finding related research or identifying research gaps or both! Why This Topic Matters When we publish, we often wonder: Who else has written something similar? Has the topic evolved? Is there a gap I can explore further?Traditional searching gives us a…
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Why Systematic Review Searches Need Proper Budgets

Why Systematic Review Searches Need Proper Budgets

We often are asked: “Can you help us with our systematic review search strategy?”Sometimes it is “Could you please guide us?” and at other times it is “Could you do the whole search for us?” At QMed, we are happy that people recognize the importance of a proper search strategy—but the bigger concern is this: many still assume that carrying out a search strategy is quick, intuitive and best of all a free or nearly free activity The Foundation of a Systematic Review Isn’t the Software — It’s the Search On our eLearning platform, we offer a complete course titled…
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