Helping medical students become better doctors

We are delighted to share some updates about the first three months of 2014, that is January to March. What is interesting is that we were not exactly able to do what we hoped to do - which was - workshops for Undergrad Medical Students. But several exciting things have developed, which will definitely contribute to our long term dream. Some developments were unexpected. We overall feel that we are entering a very promising phase.

The unexpected: mandate of research workshops: The MUHS (Maharashtra University of Health Sciences)  has made it mandatory for every Resident doctor and faculty member in medical schools to go through Research Methodology workshops. Suddenly we had a flurry of invitations and have delivered around 25 lectures this quarter. At these events, we talked about our workshops and our E-learning project and people are very excited about them. We also conducted three workshops since January (we had UG students in two of these) and will be doing four more this month (March). 

E-Learning: The most exciting activity for us right now is that we are deep into the creation of our E-Learning resources portal. We signed a deal with Ballistic Learning in January, and they are doing an excellent job of creating the necessary infrastructure for our portal. We are hoping to launch it in the middle of this year. We believe that this portal will make a big difference to students and health professionals in the country. 

As I mentioned, with the MUHS mandate, the medical schools got busy and kept us busy with lectures too. This did not allow us to plan workshops exclusively for UG (medical school) students. To make up for this, in future workshops that we organize, we are going to keep registrations free for UG students, and subsidized for residents. And so the contributions you have given us will get distributed between the Elearning programs and our workshops.

We are really happy with the current developments and that we could use your contributions very well! We have also raised an equivalent of about $750 through local resources

Our major requirement right now is for the next phases of the E-Learning portal. We look forward to raising $300 (GBP 180) from about 100 individuals, so that we can get it ready by the middle of this year. Can you help us raise this?