By Vasumathi Sriganesh | Project Leader & Hon CEO, QMed
We learned this for the first time!
We are happy to share excerpts from a blog post written by Devanshi - a 2nd year medical school student in our city, after she attended our workshop for medical students
How many of us have wanted to simply know the statistics of a certain disease? Or know some causative factors of an oft-seen condition in our OPDs? You might have tried a Wiki search, fully knowing that it’s not going to yield any fruitful data. You might have spent a few hours at the library, still not able to discover the elusive knowledge you seek.
QMed’s Literature Search Workshop, organised by the Academic Committee of our medical school was a one stop guide on the know-how to access the most prolific database available on the World Wide Web - 'PubMed'.
PubMed is a collection of bibliographic details of articles from various journals and in this vast universe of articles, it is not exactly easy to find the kind of data you want. The Literature Search workshop helped us narrow the gap between what we want and what we get. A series of real-time examples and simplified rules, great explanations coupled with some hidden-in-plain-sight functions, which we often overlook made such a difference! All in all, this workshop was a great learning experience for us, especially because nobody had actually dealt with this topic earlier
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In all these years, this was the first time a medical school agreed to organize this workshop for students studying for a medical degree. In the past, we conducted our workshops / delivered lectures for medical students only at their conferences, as part of other events, or often in our office, for those who chose to come. We are delighted with this first event, and believe that it will be a trigger for many more to happen! We need to reach out to all medical students and build a great base for the next generation of doctors!
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