By Vasumathi Sriganesh | Founder
It is not often that a medical student in the 2nd year of MBBS publishes a paper. This morning Himanshu, a 2nd year MBBS student of the G.S.V.M. Medical College, Kanpur, India, wrote:
I feel immense pleasure to share that our case report titled "Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Multi-Organ Involvement in a Young Female: Lymphadenopathy, Lupus Cerebritis, Lupus Nephritis, and Cardiac Manifestations" has been published in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science (Peer-reviewed+ PubMed Indexed).
This wouldn't have been possible without the support of my friends, my mentors, and especially my senior Dr. Aadil
I congratulated Himanshu who has also happens to have registered for our online courses.
I asked him, “Did our course help you for this paper?”
He replied, “Surely it did ma'am. The literature searching skills I have learnt from the first course at QMed has been of immense help so far. In fact, in all the papers that are about to come and in all the papers I am working on, the literature reviewing skills you have taught are of immense help!”
He then added – “I however learnt a lot of lessons while working on this paper. During the peer review, I got to know the blunders I had made. They were rectified as I accepted the faults and the paper was eventually published :)”
I replied: “That's the best learning spirit! Peer reviewers often give great free inputs! And learning from them is a great thing to do. Way to go!”
It is heartening to see medical students attempting research publications early in their student days. A trend that started only in the last few years. And if our courses help them, we feel happy about our contribution to their success and growth!
What is interesting is that Himanshu has so far completed only our introductory course and has expressed that this course itself has helped him so much. I am hoping that once he finishes the detailed courses, he will attempt larger studies and learn lots more! It would be interesting to see how much easier such students find their post graduate thesis projects. We sincerely hope that they will do a great job then!
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