By Vasumathi Sriganesh | Project Leader
After our last report on two workshops for medical students, I thought that in this report I would be telling you about more such workshops. Yes, I will, but we had one more dream come true, since then and would love to share that with you, as well!
We conducted three more workshops for students in July and August - in Nagpur, Manipal and Pune. We got great feedback and are thrilled that we could do so many UG workshops in a year.
Now about the other dream. We always felt that our work should be helpful in rural India - that is where the lies the most challenging of healthcare needs.
And - we got a request from the "Jan Swasthya Sahyog" - a not for profit Society offering wonderful healthcare services in a remote rural area - Ganiyari, near Bilaspur in Chhatisgarh. What was more interesting is, that the idea of inviting QMed to conduct workshops at JSS, was initiated by a very young doctor who had attended our session at a medical students conference earlier, and learned a lot from it! He suggested it to the founding doctors and they gladly worked on the idea.
Why does a rural health centre need such a workshop? Such centres treat large numbers of people with varying diseases and conditions and also have to tackle social problems of their patients. Publications on how to handle such problems need to be more diverse and in larger numbers. So such centres wish to publish more, and so obviously want all possible research skills.
About 15-20 doctors and other health professionals attended our sessions on searching the medical literature and managing references. The sessions ran for one and a half days and groups of them discussed their special topics with us and got answers to questions and doubts that they had. One of the Founders summed up the workshop experience saying - "This was very good. We should do this annually in our institution - one for new doctors, and second for revision & improvement of all"
Thank you donors for helping us do all this. We do look forward to your help on a regular basis!
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