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A little known PubMed search feature

A little known PubMed search feature

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At the end of 2022 PubMed launched the "Proximity operator" feature. At the end of 2023, it would not be surprising to find that no one in India (or only a few) is aware of this. Proximity operators - available in most databases that we have to pay for, make searching much more relevant, when we search for terms like "Under developed countries". When we search these with the tags [ti] or [tiab], we are searching for the term as a phrase. When we search them with a proximity operator, then we are searching for the terms being near each…
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Access alone is not enough. Train everybody

Access alone is not enough. Train everybody

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Dr GN is a faculty in a medical college. He is registered for QMedCourses and approached me with a request for help. He is studying for an additional degree in an institution in the UK and has to write a systematic review as part of the program. He said that the requirement was that he had to do it all by himself and could not get a team to work with him. While this is unusual as systematic reviews are ideally done by a team (to reduce bias), in this case the objective of solo working is to learn every…
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Goa Medical College – Oct 31, 2014

Goa Medical College – Oct 31, 2014

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For those who do not live in Goa, the place  is almost always associated with holidays. And those who go on a holiday to Goa would be most reluctant to leave the beaches and anything else they are enjoying.  My trip to Goa was for the wedding of the daughter of my childhood friend - someone who I shared almost every waking moment with, during high school and college days. Now getting away from her and that too on a Goa beach venue would not have been easy, but thank goodness, it was for something I had long wanted to…
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