Since childhood, I have always been curious to know about the lives of doctors and other para medical professionals. Destined to become Librarian by profession, it gave me a chance to work closely with doctors and other para medical professionals when I was selected for the job at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital Library at Sion, Mumbai, where I worked for close to three years. While working at Sion Hospital, I observed that doctors, especially PG students, were hard pressed for time and needed support from librarians; this combined with the fact that they were…

Thesis writing, for a postgraduate resident is a compulsory element in the program. It is also a very interesting part of the course, but for most of us we learn that it can be interesting, rather late. When it is almost the time for submission. Many of us feel that we could have learned more, if it had all been more structured. One of the very interesting learning for the thesis activity is  “Literature searching and Referencing”. I feel that if only we could have invested time for this, around the second, third and fourth post, then our thesis writing can become…

  It is my pleasure to write a review of how the QMed Course(s) continue to guide me after more than four years of my having taken them. After my PubMed & MeSH course, I could retrieve relevant papers with exceptional ease and better precision towards the desired objective. This was something that had bothered me for years. However after the course, it became so much easier, that I began to search imaginary topics just for fun. While literature review was one of the early benefits, over a period I began referring other online course material on QMed website, especially due…