Lectures at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Mar 19. 2013

Lectures at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Mar 19. 2013

Lectures: a) Literature Search and b) Reference Management with Mendeley at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Mar 19. 2013 Update from Vasumathi: AIIMS Bhubaneswar is one of the six AIIMS like apex healthcare institutes being established by the MOHFW.  The Department of Community Medicine organized a Research Methodology Workshop on the 18th and 19th of March, 2013. Initially planned for faculty of AIIMS, the workshop eventually had PGs, Residents and Faculty from five other colleges in Bhubaneswar and proximal areas (Cuttack, Behrampur and Burla), as well. There were 40 participants in all. I travelled to Bhubaneswar on the 18th evening and went to…
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A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log

A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log

Mosa AS, Yoo I. A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2013 Jan 9;13:8. Note from QMed: “Search tags” in PubMed are methods by which a user could ask for a search term to be (compulsorily) present  in the title or as a “MeSH term” (which means the article is “about” that term, whether the search term is present in the title or abstract or not). There are several search tags that can be used in PubMed to refine searches. This article is extremely unusual…
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Lecture – Literature Search – at Dr Vasantrao Pawar Medical College, Nashik – Mar 3, 2013

Lecture – Literature Search – at Dr Vasantrao Pawar Medical College, Nashik – Mar 3, 2013

Dr. BK Nayak, former editor of the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology initiated a series of workshops on Research Methodology, during his tenure as Editor of this journal. The workshops are conducted twice a year. The current editor Dr. S. Natarajan continues this trend. Dr. Nayak now continues this through the Maharashtra Ophthalmic Society too, and with the Dean of the Medical College, Dr Mrunal Patil, also an office bearer of the MOS, planned this one day event. Vasumathi Sriganesh has always been a part of  the IJO team and now is also with the MOS efforts. Both the Ophthalmological associations…
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