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Guest post: Dr Jessy Joseph, Program Specialist, IAVI

Guest post: Dr Jessy Joseph, Program Specialist, IAVI

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It was in the year 2012, during my post-graduation at the University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi that I was introduced to QMed. I attended a workshop that QMed conducted in UCMS.  I had also heard about them from some of my colleagues. Earlier my professors had provided a brief introduction to literature search. However, I was extremely glad to have attended the QMed workshop following that. During the first workshop, I was introduced to the concepts of search words, boolean operators, Mendeley etc and this time it just made complete sense. This was especially because of the hands-on training the workshop…
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Short course in Biostatistics

Short course in Biostatistics

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Thirty-Sixth Short Course in Biostatistics The Biostatistics Resource and Training Center, Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore is organizing the thirty-sixth Short course in Biostatistics from November 20 – December 05, 2017 at CMC Vellore. The course is mainly designed to train researchers of varied professions and statisticians to competently handle health/medical data and be in a better position to function effectively in a research team. The three specific courses are: Sr. No. Course Date Last date for Registration 1 Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Principles of Epidemiology & SPSS Nov 20-24, 2017 Nov 13, 2017 2 Multiple Linear Regression, Logistic Regression…
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Science Communication to the General Public

Science Communication to the General Public

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Brownell SE., Price JV.,  & Steinman L. Science Communication to the General Public: Why We Need to Teach Undergraduate and Graduate Students this Skill as Part of Their Formal Scientific Training. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. 2013;12(1):E6-E10. PMCID: PMC3852879 Do you think that communication of science to the general public is a responsibility of scientists? If the answer is yes, are scientists able to do this? In this article, the authors say that while scientists are thoroughly trained in research methodologies, analytical skills, and the ability to communicate with other scientists, most often, they do not get trained in the communication of…
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