Feedback from UG students for our courses and the need for early learning

Feedback from UG students for our courses and the need for early learning

In my last post I had mentioned that when we worked with researchers engaged with research projects for the Lancet Citizens' Commission, we observed that if they had approached us earlier we may have saved them lots more time. After my last post, one of them mentioned - "If we had started working with you earlier, we may have made lots more progress by now!"  That was a really precious, reaffirming comment. It just confirms to us that the earlier these skills are picked up, medical research gets better, with lots of time saved. And we are really happy that more…
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Some experiences with crucial research

Some experiences with crucial research

QMed recently started training and helping health professionals who have volunteered their time for research projects for the Lancet Citizens' Commission. This research project is being coordinated from CMC Vellore. They have subscribed to QMedCourses. The group is divided into small teams working on various research projects concerning healthcare in India - specially on achieving universal healthcare coverage for people in India in the coming years. The whole group has been signed up for QMedCourses and we are also working with each team, helping them with their search strategies - for them to search various databases, find all available literature…
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A matter of concern…

A matter of concern…

The other day I got an email from a doctor who is doing some important research on a topic. The doctor wondered why s/he got different results while combining two terms with AND and OR (Term 1 AND Term 2) versus (Term 1 OR Term 2) I have also had researchers emailing me asking - I am getting unmanageable results - could you check my strategy please? And I discover completely wrong usage of Boolean operators and Truncations More queries - typically from PG students / Guides "Should I search my topic on Google and PubMed?" "In PubMed is it…
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