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Welcoming new Trustees!

Welcoming new Trustees!

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After a heavy month of lectures and workshops in April, the month of May was spent on internal focus. We are very happy to welcome three new Trustees to QMed: - 1. Ms Anujaa Navaratnaa - a Librarian, who has worked in the LTMMC & Sion Hospital and later at CRISIL. She also has an MBA in Human Resources and has worked in that domain as well. Currently she is a freelance counselor and therapist, having acquired training in this area. She has varied strengths and we hope to harness a lot of them 2. Ms Usha Sunil – a…
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Find out in which PMC articles you have been cited or acknowledged.

Find out in which PMC articles you have been cited or acknowledged.

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PMC or PubMed Central has around 5.4 Million full text articles. Want to find out in how many you have been cited or acknowledged? Here are the steps:Go to the PMC website https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ In the search box type your name followed by [Reference author] (See image below) In the results click any title. You have access to the full article. Scroll down to the references section to check for the the presence of your article Next type your name followed by [Acknowledgements] You need to search first name AND last name - See figure below Do note that we cannot…
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Do medical students (undergraduates) need to learn research?

Do medical students (undergraduates) need to learn research?

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Knowledge, attitude, practice, and barriers toward research among medical students: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey. Pallamparthy S, Basavareddy A. Perspect Clin Res. 2019 Apr-Jun;10(2):73-78. doi: 10.4103/picr.PICR_1_18. ; PMID: 31008073; PMCID: PMC6463502. This is an article after my heart! The authors voice our sentiments, when they say that medical students should be trained in the methods of carrying out research as they will be future doctors who will have to practice evidence-based medicine in patient care. Evidence based practice means, that they must find scientific research which, with a systematic approach tell them which theories and hypotheses are proved or disapproved ,…
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