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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Non-profits: What Founders Go Through 

Non-profits: What Founders Go Through 

I recently came across a great post on LinkedIn by Ajit Sivaram – co-founder of U&I Trust. In this post he described what it is like to be a Founder of a not for profit organization in India. In approximately a dozen paras that he wrote, every line resonated with what I feel today. People ask me why QMed is a not for profit. Next time I am asked this question, I am going to use Ajit’s answer: “My work isn’t just charity. It’s necessary. It’s professional. It’s the hard, unglamorous labor of building the India we keep saying we want.”…
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The ONOS – ensuring permanency and maximum use

The ONOS – ensuring permanency and maximum use

The ONOS - https://www.onos.gov.in/ is an initiative launched in January this year with support from the Govt of India. It is one through which all Government institutions can get access to articles from a large number of journals (more than 13000). This from more than 27 subject categories. From 2027 - Private institutions will also have this access, but with a fee. This has been one of the best thing that happened in India, in academics and research. However I have some worries about this. A major one being - that like the Cochrane Library, this should not go, thanks…
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