In the last week of November we got an email from AIIMS Guwahati – one of our registered institutions. In the email they indicated that they wanted to provide access to our courses to their MBBS students. We were delighted. Just as we were getting over the euphoria, on the next day we got a similar request from AIIMS Kalyani! Both institutions have mentioned that they would make the first two basic courses mandatory for all their MBBS students.  Our delight just doubled! We have been dreaming of the day when our courses are made mandatory right from the Undergraduate…

In May 2021 a young doctor - Vinayak Mishra - approached QMed. He had completed his medical degree and experienced that it was difficult to get mentors if he wanted to author a systematic review. He asked us if he could work on a collaborative project with us where QMed would take care of its major area of helping with the search strategies and he would coordinate with senior mentors and help students to author reviews. We started off in earnest. We currently have two groups of authors - medical students - working on two separate reviews.  Vinayak created groups,…

For quite long I had assumed that since PubMed Central (PMC for short) was included in PubMed, one did not have to search the PMC database - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ - separately. PMC is an "archive" of free biomedical and life sciences journal articles. Journal articles are added and archived in PMC from three sources Journal publishers / Publishing societiesAuthor manuscripts deposited by authors - as mandated by fundersDigitization projects - where NLM has collaborated with publishers to archive historical literature - scanning articles and preserving them From June 2020, PMC has also started including preprints that report NIH funded results So…