Helping medical students become better doctors

Vidya Giri Shankar is a recent medical graduate. She attended QMed's workshop on searching medical literature. She shares with us: 

"With QMed’s guidance I am now able to access my most specific requirements of journal articles and definitive answers to therapeutic dilemmas. I come straight to the answers, without having to exhaust hours of unnecessary inputs. My experience with QMed has been transformational in the way I approach and use scientific data. And what is most fascinating is QMed’s principles can be applied universally.  Five clicks are all it takes to go from problem to solution."

 In our last report (March 2014)  we mentioned about how medical schools wanted to have our workshops for students, but were constrained due to exams. And we were keen to do some soon. We then had a wonderful idea - "why not offer workshops in QMed's office instead? We could do this for individuals and up to groups of four. And the participants would get more personal attention”.

So we announced this plan on our website. And we almost instantly had requests from three UG students, who came and went through two workshops. Vidya was one of them. Later, we also had a few young consultants who attended. All of them have promised to teach students whom they mentor!

All our efforts have only proved strongly that E-Learning modules are urgently needed to reach out to students all over India. And we are happy to let you know that our portal is progressing very well. Two of us from QMed had a day long interaction with Ballistic Learning (the portal developers) in the end of May to review the progress and make our next level plans. The work is intense but we are loving every minute of it.

Heartfelt thanks to all those who made an additional contribution on our Bonus Day on May 7. We raised $1087 on that date and got a 30% bonus for this. Some contributors gave after the Bonus Day and we raised another $2080 in the next few days.

Each one of you who has contributed since September 2013, is playing an important role in improving Indian healthcare through an important change in the medical education system. We hope more people will join this effort and we are sure that the E-Learning portal will make exponential changes! And we will work to ensure that changes happen in every medical school in India.