Dermatology Topics for ICMR-STS
Can you suggest ideas for ICMR research (STS) in dermatology? For ICMR-STS, you have to depend on a guide fromContinue Reading
Tag: Medical Research
Research Mentorship for MBBS/MD Students in India: The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Program
There are very limited opportunities for Indian medical students and even residency trainees, to engage in high quality mentorship programContinue Reading
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Ronald Fisher and Some Thoughts on the p-Value
One of the most discussed, debated and controversial issues in medical research is the p-value. I came across Ronald Fisher’sContinue Reading
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#beggaraccess: Nature, Dark Social, Free to View and the Open Access Debate
Nature has recently opened up its vast treasure trove to all those who know someone with access to them. Here I wonder at the irony of the fact that they are raising more barriers in the name of access!
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ICMR Opens STS-2015 Applications: Research Opportunity for Undergraduate Medical Students in India
The Indian Council of Medical Research has a run a very prestigious and increasingly sought after summer research programme forContinue Reading
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Thoughts on h-index (and Google Scholar Metrics 2014)
The 2014 Google Scholar Metrics have been released a week or so now. The list for the top twenty journalsContinue Reading
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The Man with a million hits: John Ioanndis
If you are not aware of Prof. John Ioannidis and his work, well, you must have been living buried underContinue Reading
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JIMA: Largest Medical Journal in Print Closes Shop
The Journal of the Indian Medical Association seems to have ceased publication in March, according to this newspaper article, whichContinue Reading
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The Parable of the Farmers Plagued by Rats: AKA Publications in Advancing Medical Careers
There was a small island kingdom, inhabited by a peaceful race of people who prospered through the advances they hadContinue Reading
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Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide: The Dark Knight Falls
From Aaron’s last blog post: Thus Master Wayne is left without solutions. Out of options, it’s no wonder the seriesContinue Reading
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Literature Search Workshop at UCMS: Extra-Curricular Academics at the MEU
The Medical Education Unit at the University College of Medical Sciences, where I am now doing my residency, is aContinue Reading
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Protocol Writing Workshop 2012 and Falling in Love… with UCMS!
As residents, one of the most important things that we have to do is complete a dissertation, or thesis inContinue Reading
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Charles Beevor: The Sign of a “Bloody” Jerk
Forgive the hyperbolic title. Do not take offense and read on before hating on me. Please note the post scriptContinue Reading
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OAW 2011: So You Hit A Paywall?
This is in celebration of the Open Access Week, which is celebrated all across the globe between October 24 –Continue Reading
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What Flies in KVPY: A Sample Project
I have been getting a deluge of requests to post some examples of the type of projects that have beenContinue Reading
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House MD 8×02: Transplant
As big a fan of the House MD show I am, let me start off with the disclaimer that IContinue Reading
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Medical Student Research: The First Year Quandary
The problem with the Indian Medical Curriculum is that it is too intense, as it should be, no complaints there,Continue Reading
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National Conference on Students’ Medical Research
The Community Medicine department of Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram is organizing the 5th National Conference on Students’ Medical Research. The themeContinue Reading
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Researching: A Foundation Workshop
Click pic to go to registration site. Undergraduate Medical Education in India sorely lacks any initiation into research knowledge. WhileContinue Reading
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KVPY: 5 Reasons To Apply
Well, this might seem like a stupid question to ask, but yesterday a medical student contacted me and posed beforeContinue Reading
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Are patients really “worse off” with older docs?
In what appears to be a largely counter intuitive result, research by the American Journal of Medicine has unearthed thatContinue Reading
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Aaron Swartz and the Open Access Civil Disobedience
Aaron Swartz has been formally charged with a set of violations based on his hacking the MIT mainframe in orderContinue Reading
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Aaron Swartz: The Robbing Hood of Open Access?
Let me make it clear at the very outset that I am aware that AS is being indicted for hackingContinue Reading
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Workshop on Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Manipal University has been one of the leaders in bringing research to Indian Medical Students, so it was no surpriseContinue Reading
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The 20% Time Rule
For understanding the purport of the rant that is about to follow, you need to take a look at thisContinue Reading
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Knowledge Compression and the Beauty of Data
I stumbled onto this fantastic Ted Talk given by “data detective” David McCandless via a Tweet on the @BMJ_latest account:Continue Reading
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Get That Heroin Rush, Safely
Clinical observations and lesion based studies have long shown that the brain is an important adjunct for sexual functions. AlthoughContinue Reading
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Buck-teria!
First up, a disclaimer. I know one of the researchers who conducted this short study personally and professionally. I admireContinue Reading
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Sex and the Senile
Geriatric sexuality is a very sparsely explored domain in the medical arena. With the developing world getting top heavy onContinue Reading
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KVPY: 10 Tips to Succeed!
So it seems like I am on a reblogging roll today! This time I resurrect another one of my favoriteContinue Reading
