A Workshop and some Nostalgia!

A Workshop and some Nostalgia!

End of June, I was invited to deliver a lecture on “Selection of studies” for doing a systematic review. This was at a three day workshop on systematic reviews at ACTREC – which is a centre of the well known Tata Memorial Hospital in my city. A friend of mine – Satish is the librarian there and he was delivering the lecture on the topic I normally take – which is – Literature searching. I enjoyed this change. More so because about ten years ago I had actually done the screening of studies for a major review. At that time…
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How to Peer Review Search Strategies

How to Peer Review Search Strategies

I recently did a short course on "How to Peer Review Search Strategies". This was offered by INSTATS - an organization that offers several excellent research related courses. What is Peer reviewing of search strategies? In India, we have a lacuna of knowledge about search strategies and the need for them to be structured. Most often very little thought is given to the strategy and it is done in an ad-hoc manner. Peer reviewing is something no one even thinks about.. The six hour session over two evenings - run by two expert Information Professionals - Carol Lefebvre - and…
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QMed Completes Five Years of Launching QMedCourses

QMed Completes Five Years of Launching QMedCourses

QMedCourses Turns 5 – Thanks to Your Support, We’ve Created Impact That Matters! On June 14, 2020, right in the heart of the pandemic, we launched our ELearning platform –www.qmedcourses.in– built entirely through a “work-from-home” effort. Today, we are proud to share that in just five years:  We have had around 45 institutions – small to large and a total of around 10,000 individuals register with us. Our work was cited in the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India (JAPI) – PMID: 39563131 Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College made it mandatory for PG theses to include a documented search strategy. The Lancet Citizens’ Commission engaged us to coach researchers…
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