Education India Project #14455

Helping medical students become better doctors

by QMed Knowledge Foundation

Project Report | Oct 9, 2013
Helping medical students become better doctors - Making plans

By Vasumathi Sriganesh | Project Leader

At the end of September 30, 2013, we at QMed Knowledge Foundation had a lovely feeling of warmth in our hearts. We had received $7176 from 92 donors. We also received around $970 through two individuals who wished to contribute in our local currency. What has been wonderful is that you have contributed with full faith, that we will utilize the money to do something important and that we will do our best. Thank you!. We believe we have your best wishes, for us to do our best now.

We have documented plans that include

Creating E-learning modules (we are already working on these)
Conduct five workshops, which will reach out to about 125 undergraduate students of health sciences
Create a strong feedback and monitoring system
Provide support for a year for the 125 workshop participants

We were also really lucky that just as the Open Challenge ended, and we made these plans, there was a National Conference in Health Professions Education (NCHPE 2013) in our city of Mumbai. My colleague and project partner Lakshmi and I attended this event. We attended two preconference workshops, one of which was on using Moodle for E-learning modules (which helped us). We got to interact with several educators and discuss this project with them. We have generated enthusiasm amongst them and it was great that we got to do this at this event.

We have, for long wanted to do these workshops for undergraduate health science students. Our major deterrent was funding. With your contribution and that of all donors, we are sure we will make a great beginning, and we'd once again like to thank you for his contribution. I would specially like to share that one of the contributors to our cause was Dr. Eugene Garfield, a world renowned information scientist, who I had met in May 2013, on the day I received an International Award. Getting a contribution from his Trust is a major reaffirmation for us. Do watch out for more reports from us, and we welcome any suggestions you may have.

Regards

Vasumathi Sriganesh

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