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Teaching literature searching & referencing in the Undergraduate curriculum of health science streams

Teaching literature searching & referencing in the Undergraduate curriculum of health science streams

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About a year back I had written a post - The AETCOM handbook has it! And that this handbook has a mention about "non-core competencies" that are highly desirable for an Indian medical graduate. Section 3.4.4: specifies that the Indian Medical Graduate must: “Demonstrate ability to search (including through electronic means), and critically evaluate the medical literature and apply the information in the care of the patient” But this is not taught even in the Research Methodology courses or informally, with few exceptions. QMed has been teaching these elements since 2008. Since 2020 QMed introduced ELearning courses at www.qmedcourses.in -…
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I always learn something new when I listen to your lectures

I always learn something new when I listen to your lectures

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This is something I get to hear from many faculty members and sometimes from students who have heard my lectures or webinars more than once. More often it is faculty members who say this as they are the organizers of events and the people who invite me to speak. It of course feels wonderful receiving a compliment like this. But recently it had me wondering. I realized that the crux of my lectures on literature searching or reference management are the same. I teach the principles of searching and show a couple of features in PubMed. Or I teach the…
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Live workshops – and what we learnt

Live workshops – and what we learnt

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A live workshop after two-and-a-half years I recently did a live workshop at the King George's Medical University, Lucknow.  We covered Literature Searching in PubMed and Cochrane Library, and also Mendeley for Reference Management. It was wonderful doing one after a gap of two-and-a-half years. It is great when students/residents want a photograph with you. Getting such a request from them is a privilege. It feels wonderful when people tell you how much they learnt and how they look forward to revising/learning more from the "qmedcourses.in" website. How did the workshop happen at KGMU? I had done a shorter session…
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