Education India Project #14455

Helping medical students become better doctors

by QMed Knowledge Foundation

Project Report | Oct 19, 2016
Sharing three wonderful pieces of news, with a big thank you!

By Vasumathi Sriganesh | Project Leader

With Nitya

We are delighted to share three pieces of news with you. Your donations have helped us so much!

A workshop for medical students in another city

In September, Nitya, a student from a medical school in Delhi, called us, saying that she wanted our workshop for students in her college, as part of a college festival. She searched online for interesting workshops and loved what she found in QMed's website. Only, the college had no budget to pay for our travel, or subsidized charges. Nitya's efforts and enthusiasm were so intense and she was so flexible in accepting anything that we offered, that we chose to do a two hour interactive session. We did not charge them anything, and I used my travel reward points for my flight tickets. The session on September 26, went off very well We had 40 medical students who lapped up the teaching, with interest.

Do watch a video clip of a participant - Swati, here

After the event, Shipra, an alumnus of the same college, joined us for lunch. She told the students how the same program helped her do the literature searches for her thesis much faster. And she promised to mentor the students if they needed help! I loved watching our work go round.
GlobalGiving bonuses for QMed

India celebrates Daan Utsav (festival of giving) every year during the dates October 2 - 8. This year, an Indian fundraising portal - Impact Guru, joined hands with GlobalGiving. Together they selected 20 Indian non profits listed on GlobalGiving and set up pages for them to showcase projects. GlobalGiving offered bonuses of $400 and $250 to non profits that had the top two number of donors and also the top two donation amounts. QMed won $400 for number of donors and $250 for the second highest amount raised. Thank you GlobalGiving and ImpactGuru and thank you to all donors who gave. This project was for QMed guiding residents for the literature and referencing for their theses.
A workshop for medical teachers in collaboration with "The Union"

About a year ago, I met Dr Ajay, who is responsible for conducting Operations Research workshops in India, on behalf of The Union - an International body working in the area of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Dr Ajay mentioned that in their workshops they did not cover literature searching well enough and he wished to explore the possibilities of a collaboration with us. And in the last weekend, together we did a capacity building workshop for twenty medical teachers in the country. The teachers were a carefully chosen group, and at the end of two intense days of searching and reference management, they have all committed to practising and teaching their residents and colleagues!

Overall we feel that ever since we started this project in 2013, lots has happened. We are delighted. We have to reinforce our thank yous to every donor. Without you, this would have been very tough.
And of course there is so much more ground to cover. With our feedback, we hope you are happy too! We look forward to more support. Would you consider planning for a monthly recurring donation, so that we have steady support to do more?

The workshop announcement

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Aug 3, 2016
Medical students pour out appreciation for lessons learned from QMed!

By Vasumathi Sriganesh | Project Leader

Prize winners at "Quest Unplugged", Mumbai

Medical students have a way of hitting the nail on the head. Here are three accounts of how they expressed appreciation for our lectures and workshops.

Snehal - a medical student, attended a lecture that I delivered and she later described her experience of my lecture, on her Facebook page.

In her post she wrote: The lecture was so helpful, it almost felt like we had found the password to Alibaba's Caves! The treasure was always there, she told us how to access it.
A team of four students, - Kunal, Meet, Tanmay and Ujjwal participated in an event in our city, where they had to make a presentation on "Drug eluting stents". Meet writes:

We were lost. Completely lost in the millions of articles in PubMed. None of us had the slightest idea on how to go about searching for our topic. All we knew was that it had to be done on PubMed. All of us living under the peaceful illusion that a simple search of Drug Eluting Stents on PubMed would give us all our answers.

None of us was prepared for what was about to hit us like a boulder right in our faces. A massive 12000 records!! Fortunately for us, that is when a lecture by Mrs. Vasumathi Sriganesh from QMed, was organized. Every single technique taught during the lecture came in handy! As we applied one by one, we were able to come down to 193 articles.

And with these, we worked at our presentation and won the first prize! If we had not applied these techniques, we would have wasted lots more time searching, and probably missed many great references!
Khanda - a participant of a recent workshop wrote -

What our guides tell us is "Go to PubMed and search for relevant articles!" I would like to ask them "Where were you (when we struggled)? Why didn't you show us this (correct search techniques) before? Did you even know them?" Hats off to the QMed team for teaching us these skills. I would be glad if a similar workshop is conducted at our institution.

There are lots more Snehals, Khandas, Kunals and team members waiting to be trained in India. If you donate $25 it helps one medical student learn something that he/she does NOT learn in the medical school. If you give a recurring donation of $25 (monthly) you help us train 12 medical students in a year. Just choose the $25 option and the "Donate Monthly" option, to make a difference to lots of medical (and allied health sciences) students! Help us create a new generation of doctors.

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May 31, 2016
Nobody taught us this earlier!

By Vasumathi Sriganesh | Project Leader & Hon CEO, QMed

Devanshi-KEM-UG

We learned this for the first time!

We are happy to share excerpts from a blog post written by Devanshi - a 2nd year medical school student in our city, after she attended our workshop for medical students

How many of us have wanted to simply know the statistics of a certain disease? Or know some causative factors of an oft-seen condition in our OPDs? You might have tried a Wiki search, fully knowing that it’s not going to yield any fruitful data. You might have spent a few hours at the library, still not able to discover the elusive knowledge you seek.

QMed’s Literature Search Workshop, organised by the Academic Committee of our medical school was a one stop guide on the know-how to access the most prolific database available on the World Wide Web - 'PubMed'.

PubMed is a collection of bibliographic details of articles from various journals and in this vast universe of articles, it is not exactly easy to find the kind of data you want. The Literature Search workshop helped us narrow the gap between what we want and what we get. A series of real-time examples and simplified rules, great explanations coupled with some hidden-in-plain-sight functions, which we often overlook made such a difference! All in all, this workshop was a great learning experience for us, especially because nobody had actually dealt with this topic earlier

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In all these years, this was the first time a medical school agreed to organize this workshop for students studying for a medical degree. In the past, we conducted our workshops / delivered lectures for medical students only at their conferences, as part of other events, or often in our office, for those who chose to come. We are delighted with this first event, and believe that it will be a trigger for many more to happen! We need to reach out to all medical students and build a great base for the next generation of doctors!

You could support this initiative by donating $150 for a single workshop or by raising this amount via a fundraiser that you create. Creating a fundraiser is easy and fun. Just go to our page - https://goto.gg/14455 and at the lower end of the page you will find the button - Start a Fundraiser. And just in case you have a problem, do write to us at info@qmed.ngo and we will help you out

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