QMed Knowledge Foundation

Enhancing research quality with structured literature searching and referencing. In India, students and professionals of all health science streams often waste hours, searching for literature and evidence. Time that could be better spent in actual research, learning and practice. This is because systematic training to find updates and evidence is not part of the health sciences curriculum. QMed assists students and professionals build a strong foundation for academics, research and evidence based practice to save hours of time. QMed has taught literature searching and reference management since 2008 April – via lectures and workshops. We also teach and support literature searching for authoring systematic reviews and meta-analyses Since April 2008, we have delivered more than 518 lectures (more recently webinars) at various events and also conducted more than 254 workshops. Our founder and CEO, Ms Vasumathi is recognized by the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences and the Maharashtra Medical Council as a speaker. Her speaker code is MMC/MASS/00030/2016. In 2013, she also won an International Award for the work she did through QMed. In 2018, we introduced our courses online. Then, in 2020, we revamped these courses and made them accessible to both institutions and individuals. The courses are available at www.qmedcourses.in In the first year after the revamp, we enrolled over 4800 individuals. In June 2021, we also added to this website, a library of resources useful for literature searching, writing and more reading, related to health sciences research and education.