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Spreading QMed’s Mission – Travel Challenges

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Sharing a story from our Founder – the human experiences of her train travels, as she spreads QMed’s mission When I conduct workshops in cities, most often I fly. We read a lot about flying woes these days – delayed flights and more. With train journeys, for me they are a wee bit more challenging as I get on in years. But my love for delivering lectures and conducting workshops all over India, makes me decide to accept most of these challenges! I am sharing the “good aspects” that I recently encountered, in the midst of challenges. In 2023, I…

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Single Sign On for our ELearning site for Institutions

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At QMed, we continuously explore how we can make things better with our ELearning courses – www.qmedcourses.in One of the things we explored was the option of a Single Sign On, also known SSO. Several libraries have an SSO tool to allow their students and faculty to access various library resources they subscribe to. This helps in many ways Library users – do not need to remember several different user ids and passwords The resource providers – do not need to physically enroll each person. They also need not worry about ineligible users having access – when students or employees leave…

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Interaction with Government Agencies

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The year – 1996. I was the librarian of HELP – Health Education Library for People. Many in or from India may remember that Internet access became available to the public from August 1995. It was Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) that was the only Internet Service Provider then. (VSNL was a Government of India undertaking). Understandably there was a large waiting list for connections. Our library got its connection sometime in 1996, with what was then called the “Shell” account, (Unix based). A Shell account got us to see a black screen with white characters. No images, graphics, colours. This account…

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Why does the stick work better than the carrot?

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On 23rd January Vasumathi Sriganesh delivered a lecture on literature searching at the Ayurved Mahavidyalaya in Mumbai for their Post graduate students. An enthusiastic lot, they scored very well in the small post test that we normally give at the end of such events. But here is something very thought provoking. In the Feedback Section of the form, we asked a question – “Do you think Literature Searching should be taught in the curriculum”? All of them answered – “Yes” But – for the question – “Will you register for our courses and complete them” – Only one student said Yes.…

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Announcing a new course in QMedCourses

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"Mam I need your help for a literature search as I am going to do a systematic review". In the recent years I have had several phone calls with this request. The person who calls, asks for help saying "I do not know enough about this - I have tried my best". And then shares what he/she has already tried as a search strategy. As I browse through the attempt, my eyes hit upon the usage of any one or more of the following: AND instead of OR OR instead of AND Incorrect Mesh terms Unrecognized phrases in quotes Insufficient…

The Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) has approved QMed for credit points for webinars

Spreading QMed’s Mission – Travel Challenges

Single Sign On for our ELearning site for Institutions

Interaction with Government Agencies

Why does the stick work better than the carrot?

Announcing a new course in QMedCourses

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