Guest post: Dr Priyadarshini Kulkarni, Palliative Care Physician

Guest post: Dr Priyadarshini Kulkarni, Palliative Care Physician

I am a Palliative Care physician. I ventured to do a part time MSc in Palliative Care, with an International University. One element of this program was to write a systematic review on a topic as part of the thesis fulfillment. I had never done one before. And time was really scarce considering my work commitments and learning something new for research purposes. (A palliative care physician mostly sees patients in their terminal stages, and so cannot afford to delay attending to them). I was worried about the literature searching requirement, as I had never done a systematic search at…
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Global Health Library

Global Health Library

Global Health Library is an initiative of WHO for global knowledge management. It is an index of scientific and technical literature produced in low- and middle- income countries. The purpose is to increase visibility of health literature that is produced across the globe and enhance sharing and transfer of knowledge. In 2015, the Global Health Library, adopted the name of Global Index Medicus. GIM is an central search platform for a) Five Regional indexes, b) Global indexes of databases like MEDLINE, SciELO and c) The WHO institutional repository.  BIREME,  a specialized center of WHO, maintains this resource in order to ensure its reliability. This index…
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Workshop on Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Data Management

Workshop on Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Data Management

The Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore is organizing a Workshop on "Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Data Management" from January 29-31, 2018.  This workshop is organised for Medical college faculty and researchers with the objectives: To provide comprehensive training  in fundamentals of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Data Management. To empower them in using software for the above topics. To provide them with course binder to enable them to do further training. More details
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