By Vasumathi Sriganesh | Founder
The year 2020 started off with a bang - with a schedule of two lectures and one workshop in January. The first lecture was in an event for about nearly 100 Clinical Pharmacologists and had lovely feedback from participants from all over India. The second lecture was in an event organized by the Telemedicine Society of India and the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Health Informatics of the MGUMST. This event was for everyone working in any area of health informatics.The theme of the event was Workforce Development in Digital Health. I was invited to speak on "Skills to Frame Online Searches".
The first part of my talk was about what I teach to upskill searching. In the second part, I shared my observations over so many years - the lacuna, the upskilling needed, and the dangers of not doing so. I told the audience that searching is not something learned once and then simply carried out; there is a lot of upgrading to do in these skills. I suggested the need for developing professionals in this area and the need for institutions to plan for employing such skilled people and paying them right.
The twenty minute talk was highly appreciated. The first comment was about how I had explained everything very lucidly, and I was really glad to have got my points across well. Advocacy needs clear communication and I was happy that this had worked. I was then inundated with questions about how QMed could help different institutions and their students and faculty, and still better - I got the offer for help in my planning and future directions, from a person who is an expert in education and intellectual property related matters.
As I said - 2020 started off well. I look forward to a workshop that I will be conducting in the coming week - for Family Physicians, as part of their conference.
With the new year, we hope that GlobalGiving will be able to solve the challenges with the Indian Govermental regulations soon too! We once again wish you a Happy New Year and look forward to your support this year too.
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