Teaching skills in Literature Searching & Referencing at the Undergraduate level –  a must!

Teaching skills in Literature Searching & Referencing at the Undergraduate level – a must!

For years I have mentioned to academicians that literature searching and referencing skills are best taught in the undergraduate days. In the early days the response I often got was - "UG students should first study text books. They can learn all this later". Then things changed a bit. Conferences for undergrad students were held. Students presented posters and oral talks. The ICMR STS projects penetrated further and more colleges started having more students participate.  QMed was invited to conduct workshops in several events. And in every workshop the feedback from UG students was almost overwhelming. They were thrilled to…
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Medical students can be mentored to enjoy research!

Medical students can be mentored to enjoy research!

Evaluation of a mentored student project programme using reflective summariesDevi V, Abraham RR.  Natl Med J India. 2020 Mar-Apr;33(2):102-106. This article is one amongst a very few* in PubMed that describes a project where medical students have been taught to write "reflective summaries" after doing a research project. Very simply put a reflective summary is a a write up "about the research experience" that each student went through. This - they had to do after completing a research project, writing an abstract and presenting a poster on the same. All students were part of an MSP - mentored student programme.…
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Cureous Commons

Cureous Commons

An interesting platform with research data being open to both health researchers and patients. According to this non profit initiative Cureous encourages collaboration and open investigations. And they encourage patient collaborators! This sounds very interesting. The page - Why this initiative explains their intentions and encourages public and private organizations to become partners and thus build a consortium The "Platform" page explains newer initiatives in the way research will be done, and more. Launched in 2020, this sounds like a very interesting initiative. Do check it out at https://www.cureous.life/
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