QMed’s blog posts

QMed began blogging in 2012, and over time, our format evolved. We realised that much of what we shared for learners was also meaningful for donors and supporters, so for a while, our communication streams merged. In 2024, we reintroduced a dedicated blog and began posting once a month. By 2025, after some reflection, we found a better balance — creating more content without overwhelming inboxes. Today, we email only selected categories, while all posts remain accessible here — fully searchable and easy to revisit anytime.
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Access alone is not enough. Train everybody

Access alone is not enough. Train everybody

Dr GN is a faculty in a medical college. He is registered for QMedCourses and approached me with a request for help. He is studying for an additional degree in an institution in the UK and has to write a systematic review as part of the program. He said that the requirement was that he had to do it all by himself and could not get a team to work with him. While this is unusual as systematic reviews are ideally done by a team (to reduce bias), in this case the objective of solo working is to learn every…
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We are delighted to discover that our teaching spreads…

We are delighted to discover that our teaching spreads…

Recently three Postgraduate residents from a Dental College visited our office. Their research guide told them to consult me as each one of them was working on a systematic review. They needed help with search strategies that they had worked on. The residents explained that as part of a project submission, they were required to do either a "Literature Review" or a "Systematic Review", and their institution wanted them to work on the latter. I had done a workshop in this institution in 2017, and this was a follow up from their side. I checked each resident's search strategy. As expected,…
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