Workshops – March 2014

Workshops – March 2014

March 2014 was another dream month for QMed. There were many 'first time' moments for us in this month. For the first time an institution invited us to conduct three full-day workshops on PubMed Basics and Advanced. For the first time an institution had organized such a workshop for a large number of post-graduate students  (first and second and year students). The invitation was from Bapuji Dental College in Davangere, Karnataka to conduct workshops for MDS students and faculty of their college. We had a total of 99 participants. The interactions, the participation, the response - everything was great.  The…
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Lectures – February and March 2014

Lectures – February and March 2014

The dream run of lectures/talks continued in the months of February and March. We delivered 20 lectures out of which 18 of them were in medical colleges in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. One lecture was at a first time event called the Symposium and Training on Research Methodology (STORM), at Index Dental College, in Indore. Another interesting talk titled 'Decoding PubMed' was at an event organized by Narayana Nethralaya in Bangalore. The audience at most of these lectures (except STORM and Narayana Nethralaya ) were PG students who will be appearing for their exams in the coming months or had finished…
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Lectures for Health Consumers – Jan 2014

Lectures for Health Consumers – Jan 2014

In January 2014, we did three lectures for health consumers on how to search online for reliable health information. We had already done one at HELP (Health Education Library for People) in Dec 2013, and with the encouraging feedback, we could offer this to more organizations. The first (Jan 15) was at Oracle Financial Services, where a group of about 15 people attended the lecture. The group not only was very attentive, soaking in every bit of what we shared, but asked a lot of questions. The nicest part of the lecture was at the end, when we asked for…
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