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Jun 20, 2024: The Health Sector Needs Story: an Urgent Upgrade in Learning about Systematic Reviews

In my last story, (https://www.qmed.ngo/donor-connect/  - May 30) , I had written about an important progress in India. I had  mentioned that the ICMR has started providing funding for: Authors of systematic reviews  And for the conducting of courses for authors, to write good reviews.  I had also stressed upon the need for very systematic search strategies, for such work and that the majority in India are not trained in this activity. We at QMed not only offer such help and training; but we are also constantly upgrading our knowledge so that we can offer the best of help. Soon after…
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May 30, 2024: Organization Story: Miles to go! Deep Diving! Spreading our wings! All for India’s research outputs

Systematic Reviews are publications arising from “Secondary Research”. Which means a team of authors identifies all research papers on a topic and then together analyze and synthesize the findings in each, in order to generate evidence of what is useful. In India, recently there has been an upward movement in this area. Healthcare faculty are encouraged to author systematic reviews. And recently the ICMR is not only funding such secondary studies, but is also calling out to medical colleges to offer training in this area. Just like the foundation of a building needs to be very strong, for the building…
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May 24, 2024: Stakeholder Story: A student from Bangladesh proves his worth

On the 2nd of May we had Sayeed – an MBBS student from Dhaka, registered on www.qmedcourses.in That is not unusual as we have had international students join off and on. Within a week he completed the first two courses and scored an 80% and a 100% respectively. While we applauded him for his scores, we were more impressed about two things: 1. That he finished the two courses very quickly (unlike a majority of participants) 2. He gave constructive feedback!!  Apart from being specific in his feedback, he pointed out an error, in one of our assessment questions. When…
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