Helping medical students become better doctors

Bhavik Shah is a final year medical student. He shares with us - how QMed made a difference in his quest to learn research methods:

I study in a premier medical college in India. At the undergraduate level there is no exposure to research. In my second year, I applied for the Short Term Studentship program of the  Indian Council of Medical Research. My project was not selected, but I was lucky to be selected to present it at 'Medicon'. Medicon is an annual conference for undergrad medical students. It was in this event, I learned how to search medical literature from Mrs. Vasumathi Sriganesh, founder of QMed. She delivered a lecture on this topic, at a workshop on Evidence Based Medicine. I took a lot of notes. I realized that I had hardly known anything about this!

A year later, a faculty member in my college encouraged me to submit two case reports. I referred to all my notes to do the search, and this helped me complete two manuscripts in a month! I submitted them to a PubMed indexed journal with a good impact factor. After a couple of revisions, (now that sounds quick, while I was doing the revisions, the intervals seemed long!) one morning I finally heard the 'magic ping' in my Blackberry - giving me the good news - "It is a pleasure to accept your manuscript for publication"!! 

Here is the link to my article.  Thank you QMed - directly from the left ventricle of my heart :) You have no idea how grateful I am for the workshop at Medicon! 

Bhavik Shah

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In the last two months we have delivered seven lectures in medical schools, and conducted a workshop for faculty of a dental college in Bijapur.  Bijapur is a small town which is an overnight journey from our city of Mumbai

We were also part of this year's Medicon - where we were invited to deliver a lecture on literature searching at a preconference workshop on research methodology . Medicon appreciated our support and acknowledged us on their banner!

QMed's E-Learning portal is progressing well. We hope to announce the launch date in our next report if things go as planned. Thank you all for your support! And a special thanks to all those who contributed in July - we raised around $650 during the bonus day.  Do continue to support us and please do share our stories with your friends.