Building Better Doctors, With Vital Search Skills

This month for a change, I was invited to deliver a lecture on "Selection of studies" for doing a systematic review. This was at a three day workshop on systematic reviews at ACTREC - which is a centre of the well known Tata Memorial Hospital in my city. A friend of mine - Satish is the librarian there and he was delivering the lecture on the topic I normaly take - which is - Literature searching. I enjoyed this change. More so because about ten years ago I had actually done the screening of studies for a major review.  

At that time I was coached by another expert and remembered many steps. I planned my talk. Oh yes - this time I took the help of AI, and it made my job faster. But - I did tweak it a lot and proudly claim it IS "My talk". I believe in doing it by myself, with help from AI.  

After my talk there was a practical session where Satish, another librarian friend Medha (retired from the Tata Memorial Centre), my colleagu Dipti and I - all helped coordinate a literature searching demo cum practical.  

The fun part of the day, was a fond memory - Medha, Satish and I had all started our careers in librarianship - not in a medical library, but in the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism. We recalled our respective days out there - during different years,  fondly, and sent a picture of the three of us, to another long time (now retired) librarian of the IIG - telling her - "We wish you were with us now for this picture!" 

Some events are livened up thus! 

Links:

• QMedCourses
• Article mentioning inclusion of QMedCourses in AIIMS Bhubaneswar