PubMed & Mendeley – Lotus College of Optometry, Mumbai, Sep 29, 2013

PubMed & Mendeley – Lotus College of Optometry, Mumbai, Sep 29, 2013

Lotus College of Optometry, located in Juhu, Mumbai is in institution that is special for us. They had included our workshops - PubMed and later Reference Management in their PG curriculum - the Masters of Optometry course, right from the first batch! Every batch has eight students and this time's was an extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable one. In one hour I was able to teach them most of PubMed and in another hour almost all of Mendeley. Of course they will need practice. But, they seemed to soak what I taught and they will have a refresher course soon, so…
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Workshop: Reference Management with Mendeley – Aug 24, 2013 – Event Report

Workshop: Reference Management with Mendeley – Aug 24, 2013 – Event Report

Did you know that you could organize your references neatly in folders, remove duplicate references, set up alerts to specific folders wherein you store your references, generate a bibliography with just one click! This was our first full-fledged workshop on Reference Management and we had 16 registrations. So here is a pre-during-post workshop report for you! Pre- Workshop (@ QMed office) - 7 pm, Friday ( 23rd Aug) We are giving final touches to the presentation. It's been two days we are working on it - creating content, refining the presentation techniques, adding elements that will make the learning and delivery…
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Literature Search and Reference Management Workshop at Medicon, 2013 – UCMS, Delhi

Literature Search and Reference Management Workshop at Medicon, 2013 – UCMS, Delhi

QMed conducted a one-day workshop on Literature Search and Reference Management on 11th April at Medicon 2013 which was held this year at the University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi. The workshop was attended by undergraduate students who had registered for Medicon as well as post-graduate students from UCMS. Some of the students from UCMS had attended our workshop held there in the month of November. The literature search session went off smoothly as students tried to absorb the concepts and features of the PubMed database. It was the session on reference management tool Mendeley that stole the show. Mendeley helps…
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