posted Jan 12, 2012 10:47 PM by Manu Mathew
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updated Jan 18, 2012 12:20 AM
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Most of you are very well acquainted with the QMed Knowledge Foundation ( http://qmedkf.org.in) spearheaded by Mrs.Vasumathi
Sriganesh. INFORMER has always advocated that the medical fraternity adopt an
evidence based approach in heathcare in which the ability to search the
best available evidence is an essential skill. On the basis of which INFORMER has a standing agreement
that INFORMER and QMed will co-operate and work together in all possible endeavors
Current Partnership Specifics: Friends of the Foundation and
INFORMER members : We are pleased to formally announce that as a part of
the partnership agreement between the QMedKF and INFORMER, QMed has offered that all INFORMER members become Friends of the QMedKF by default (see more details here : http://qmedkf.org.in/general_info.htm)
By this facility all INFORMER members will be eligible for the following -
Personal training sessions(On request by member for specific "how to
search for...." queries ). Need to refer point 2 before asking a query.
- Access to online training programs
- Literature search assistance for specific research projects
- Assistance in locating / procuring Full journal articles
- Help in areas like referencing, maintaining references & queries related to writing articles
As a Friend in return you could help the foundation by:
- Commitment to use QMed help and services
- Commitment to making a difference in your learning and practice in relation to Efficient Search practices
- Help QMed help other institutions and individuals
- Maintain a healthy balance between what you get and what you give back.
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posted Jun 1, 2011 6:26 PM by Manu Mathew
After last year's success, we bring to you the seventh edition of
eMpower at Stanley Medical College, Chennai. We hope to see you here at
Stanley Medical College, Chennai, India on the 17th and 18th of June,
2011. Amazing cases from all over the country and nail biting quiz
rounds for you!
The details are as follows:
EUREKA ALL INDIA CASE REPORT PRESENTATION COMPETITION
Date: June 17, 2011 Time: 10.00 am onwards
- Open to all undergraduates including interns (CRRI).
- Interesting case reports are invited in the fields of Medicine, Paediatrics, Surgery, Obstetrics-Gynaecology, Orthopaedics.
- Case
report submission must include Title (max 30 words), Abstract (max 300
words), Case History (max 1000 words), Discussion (max 1000 words).
- Two images (findings/ histopathology/X ray/ CT/ MRI) minimum to be submitted.
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Declaration and consent form also should be submitted (available online)
- Last Date of Submission: Online on/before 26th May 2011 and hard copies by post/courier on/before 26th May 2011. Email: empowerquiz@gmail.com. Postal address:
Eureka Case Reports,
A-4, Assistant Commissioner's Quarters,
Dakshinamoorthy Koil Street
Old Washermanpet, Chennai - 600021
The eMpower team is proud to announce that the EUREKA Case Reports
will be published in one of our partner journals.
1. Student British Medical Journal (BMJ)
2. The Australasian Medical Journal 3. International Journal of Students’ Research
4. International Medical Journal Of Students' Research 5. Chronicles of Young Scientists
Best entries will be selected and asked to present the case before a panel at the conference. Prizes worth Rs 20,000.
No
registration fees for the conference. Passive delegates who are not
presenting can also attend the conference. Travel allowances will be
provided to selected presenters.
Event in charge: Santosh Kumar 9840483982, Kesavan 9962983520,
Cowshik 9789026359
Log on to www.empowerquiz.com for more details.
7TH EMPOWER ALL INDIA INTERCOLLEGE MEDICAL QUIZ
Date: June 18th, 2011 Time: 8.30 am onwards
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Number of members per team is 2.
- Competition is open to all Undergraduates including interns (CRRI).
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Please bring ID cards/ Bonafide certificate.
- No limit to the number of teams from a single college.
- Participation certificates will be given.
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Total Prizes worth Rs 2,30,000
- Cash Prize: First Place Rs 15,000 & Esther Memorial Rolling Trophy. Second Place Rs 10,000. Third Place Rs 5,000.
Event in charge: Aishwarya 9952039885, Naveen 9566703178
Registration fees Rs 50 per team. Lunch will be provided to all the participants.
Log onto www.empowerquiz.com for more details. Last Date for Registration online: June 12
Accommodation:
Accommodation will be arranged at Stanley medical college hostel for outstation participants.
The participants requiring accommodation are requested to register separately and well in advance.
Contact: Cowshik 9789026359
Pass on the message to your fellow medicos!
Come - Enjoy the Chennai flavour :)
Best Wishes,
Sajjadh Mohamed
President
eMpower Quiz Committee
Stanley Medical College
Chennai, India- 600001
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posted Apr 20, 2011 9:43 PM by Manu Mathew
Dear Presenters at Medicon
2011
This is Vasumathi Sriganesh and I will be teaching
the component of Literature searching in the EBM preconference workshop at Medicon 2011. I am also a champion of INFORMER, in fact of
medical students, and so I would like to share some tips that I myself learned
at a "Communications Workshop" that I attended recently.
PRESENTATION TIPS
You have a limited time for presentation.
You would love to speak about everything related to your study. But you cannot.
So here's what you CAN do.
There are two elements of your talk / poster
presentation
- What you will say
- How you will say it
WHAT YOU WILL SAY
Ask yourself
a)
What is your key message to the audience?
b) What
are the highlights of your study?
·
Don’t try to give too many details. Give only the
Tip of the Iceberg. Any more detail can be given when the audience asks
questions.
·
Oral presenters: Whatever you can confidently speak
about – don’t put up on slides - beyond words / phrases / smallest sentences.
·
Tell and show - ie speak, catch people's eye and
THEN show the next slide
·
At the end, once again - give your "key
message" - which is then what the audience remembers.
·
Poster presenters – let your poster speak. Just say
a few lines about what is most important. Then let the audience ask questions.
Give simple answers to questions
HOW WILL YOU SAY IT
Give a message & Tell
a story: Forget that you are “making a presentation” or
"talking about a topic". Tell
a story. When you do that it is like sharing it with a group of friends. Topics
could be boring, but people can make them great!
Connect with people in the audience: Make eye contact with people in the audience. Don't
you do that when you talk to a friend?
Slow down. Just a bit: This is not just about speaking slowly. Most of us
tend to not only speak fast, but also pour out a high "Rate of ideas"!
We do not give time to the audience, to absorb what we say. So how do you lower
the "rate of ideas"? A very simple method is to introduce a PAUSE of
a few seconds. For eg say - "In my study I found that
patients having rest plus the drug did better than patients who took the drug
alone". Pause for about 3 seconds. Make eye contact with the audience and
then continue. This will let them “soak up” what you just said.
Invite
questions:
·
Say “I am sure you have questions; I would be happy
to answer them”.
·
Pause for 2 seconds before you answer
·
Answer to the point. Don’t give “another talk” as
an answer. (Practice this if you can, with your friends).
·
If anyone is aggressive with his/her question,
listen and pause. (Very important). Then calmly acknowledge the other person’s
view point and state something like “This is what I found, and it is
interesting to note a different view point”. Explain your side once more and
wrap it up with a smile.
·
If one individual in the audience tends to ask too
many questions / go into discussion mode / ask unrelated questions, politely
say “Yes I can answer it, but maybe we could talk during lunch”. And just turn
towards the moderators. They will take the cue and stop any extensions.
·
If you don’t get questions, just say thank you and
if you wish, repeat your key message. Be comfortable doing this.
“Post-mortem”: Some presenters later tend to go into an “I wish I
had done ____. Or I wish I had not done ____.” While analyzing and getting
feedback is important, all you need to do is to note it down for improving your
future presentations. The past cannot be changed; no post-mortems please!
Remember that you had an awesome learning experience. Value it!
Have fun presenting: Medicon is a
platform for you to get started. Have fun presenting. All of you are sharing
ideas and experiments.
Happy presenting!!!
With special thanks to Raymond Nelson whose
workshop gave me most of the inputs in this hand-out.
And to Shivika Chandra for her comments and
additions!
Vasumathi Sriganesh
QMed Knowledge Foundation
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posted Mar 3, 2011 5:51 PM by Akshay Sharma
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updated Mar 3, 2011 5:57 PM
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Due to repeated requests from the medical students all over the country to extend the last date for submission of abstracts, the same has now been extended to 15th March 2011. This is the last chance to submit your abstracts for presentation at Medicon 2011 and there will be no further extension of dates beyond this.
We are humbled by the overwhelming response to our call for abstracts this year and are thankful to all the medical students who have submitted their abstracts. Hope to see you all at Mumbai. |
posted Feb 1, 2011 7:50 AM by Akshay Sharma
We are happy to inform everyone that membership registrations to INFORMER are now open again. We thank eRegNow for the Online Registration Portal for INFORMER. You can now fill the application form and join us at www.eregnow.com/?informerMore details available here. |
posted Jan 4, 2011 3:11 AM by Akshay Sharma
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updated Jan 4, 2011 3:13 AM
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QMed Knowledge Foundation completed three years of existence as on the 19th of Dec. In the last two years, for our Anniversary Celebration event, we had panel discussions on specific themes. This year our theme is "Bringing Students and Health Science Libraries Closer", and we announce an Essay Competition on the theme. We invite students in any discipline of Health Sciences - both UG and PG, to participate. We believe this will give students a platform to share their ideas as well as problems. And it gives us the benefit of getting a pool of ideas as well as an awareness of issues we need to tackle. The Essay Competition Medical libraries are an integral part of medical education, through print resources and through access to electronic information resources. In the current era there is an urgent need for students and libraries to get much closer, for a complete value in the medical education. We all know that there are several gaps that need closure for this and QMedKF wishes to help in bridging these gaps. (Note: For convenience - we mention "medical" in our communication below - but it includes all health science institutions and libraries - dental / nursing / physiotherapy... etc) We have listed some points that you may cover in your essay.. You may focus on any of these, some of these, or all of these. If there are any other issues that are close to your heart, do write about those too. Only remember - please write facts and not cribs. Meaning - no flaming or venting out frustrations. Feel free to add a subtitle to the main title "Bringing Students and Health Science Libraries Closer" Here are the points that we thought of: (you could think of your library or health libraries in general when you write) - How would you like library orientation to be done for anyone joining a medical college?
- How do you think your Library's print collection can be improved?
- How do you think your Library's Electronic collection / access can be improved?
- What Rules do you feel are outdated and need to be changed?
- What suggestions will you give for stopping theft and mutilation of print material?
- What suggestions will you give for for prevention of misuse of computers and electronic resources?. (Misuse of computers - eg - too much of personal use like emails; misuse of electronic resources - eg - too much of unnecessary downloading of articles)?
- What would motivate you to use library (print or electronic) resources as a "professional habit" (for education / patient care / writing etc). How do you think your faculty and librarians can help?
- What problems do you face with your library?
Eligibility: · Current students (both UG and PG) in any stream of health sciences including recent graduates, from India · Faculty / Employed or in-practice professionals are also openly welcome to participate, but prizes will be awarded only to students / recent graduates Word limit: We recommend that your essay be around 1000 words; however we are not imposing a limit, just in case any of you needs to write longer essays, to communicate your ideas. Deadline: Last date to receive essays: 20-01-2011 Submission:
· Send your essays by email to – info[at]qmedkf.org.in · In the body of your email, please let us have your full name, email id and mobile number, the course you are doing (eg – MBBS 6th Sem / BDS – 2nd year / MD Med 2008) Prizes - The top three prize winners will become "Friends of QMed Knowledge Foundation" for one year. This makes them eligible to attend our training programs, and get help from us for literature searches, articles and medical writing queries. Full details about the "Friends of the Foundation" program will be announced on our website soon. In addition, they will get subject books of their choice worth Rs 2500/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500/- respectively
- The prize winning entries will also be published on our website.
- All participants will receive a certificate of participation
- Best suggestions will also be posted on our website and credits to those who made these suggestions will also be put up
The Event ON the 29th of Jan (the day of our Anniversary Celebration) - we will have a panel discussion amongst students who attend the event. We will put forth suggestions received and have further discussions on these to make plans to take things ahead. Note: Attendance at the event will be based on Registration which is completely free. We regret we cannot sponsor travel / accommodation for those who wish to attend the event.
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posted Jan 2, 2011 3:21 AM by Abhimanyu Singh
The MEMBERS of INFORMER at Grant Medical College & Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai in
collaboration with The Moving Academy of Medicine & Biomedicine,
Pune is conducting a foundation workshop on Clinical and Laboratory Medicine
Research for the students in various medical colleges of Mumbai. The
objective of this workshop is to instill the basic research skills among
the medical students. It is a sequeale of the workshops being conducted
by MAMB, Pune throughout the country for STS participants. However,
this workshop is open for STS award winners as well as non-STS
participants in Mumbai. The workshop will address the following topics:
Introduction of Research, Various study design, GCP guidelines, Ethics
in Medicne, Biostatistics, How to formulate a Research question,
Scientific writing, Data Management, Literature survey, Guide to
research publication, Clinical research protocol development and
Research opportunities in Medicine and a some brief exercises of
Protocol development. The Lab Med Demos will be following the enriching
sessions on the last day.
The workshop is being conducted during 20th-22nd
Jan, 2011 at Medicine Seminar Hall, Sir J.J. Hospital Building, Byculla,
Mumbai. The workshop is supported and sponsored by ICMR and INFORMER
jointly. There is a nominal fee of Rs. 500 as the registration fees
which will take care of participant’s stationary and food. The members
of INFORMER are eligible for 40% discount in the registration fee.
Registrations are now open for the Workshop. The interested students from Mumbai shall contact the following:
Pradnya: 8898512030 Ahmed: 9930101341
The last date for registrations is 10th Jan, 2011. Only 100 limited slots are available, on first come first serve basis. For more details about the workshop, please mail us at: info@informer.org.in
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posted Dec 27, 2010 10:01 AM by Abhimanyu Singh
The Abstract Submission for Group-presentation in MEDICON 2011 is now OPEN.
The interested students must fill the form here.
For more details about Group-presentation, please click here or mail us at medicon2011@informer.org.in (Helpdesk-MEDICON-2011)
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posted Dec 25, 2010 6:27 PM by Akshay Sharma
We are moving to a new and more secure Payment and Registration Gateway for your convenience. All future registrations will take place through that gateway only. It will enable prospective members to make payments through Credit/Debit Cards and Net Banking services as well.
Hence new memberships to INFORMER are suspended till further notice. Please mail info@informer.org.in for more details.
We deeply regret the inconvenience caused to you. |
posted Dec 18, 2010 3:12 AM by Akshay Sharma
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updated Dec 18, 2010 3:26 AM
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Registration for the Short Term Studentship of ICMR for the year 2011 has begun. To enroll, students are required to register ONLINE on ICMR website by 10th January 2011, submit the application form and proposal online latest by 25th January 2011 which will be evaluated by the Council. Results will be announced in March 2011 and list of selected students displayed on the website. If selected, the student is expected to complete the project in any two given months between April and September 2011 and submit the report before the last date of submission i.e. 15th September, 2011. The student will be awarded stipend and certificate only if his/ her report is approved.
Important websites: Announcement: http://www.icmr.nic.in/sts/sts2011/announcement.htmRegistration Form: http://202.141.106.120/STS_2011/Stud_Reg_Form.asp
For any queries please contact : Head (BMS)
Indian Council of Medical Research
V. Ramalingaswami Bhawan
Ansari Nagar,
New Delhi - 110029 | Dr. Roli Mathur, Scientist 'C',
Division of BMS
Indian Council of Medical Research
V. Ramalingaswami Bhawan
Ansari Nagar, New Delhi - 110029 |
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Submit your abstracts now!!!
