Mini Medical School: Introduction to Medical Science
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Course overview
- Provider
- Futurelearn
- Course type
- Free trial availiable
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Course author
- John COHEN
Description
This three-week course offers you a fascinating and informative introduction to modern medicine.
Whether you’d like to better communicate with healthcare professionals, you’re considering a career in medicine, or you’re keen to separate medical fact from fiction in the COVID-19 era, this course will equip you with the up-to-date medical knowledge you need.
Access the latest medical science and wellness teachingUnderstanding medicine and your own health is becoming a necessity in a time when anti-science disinformation is burgeoning.
On this course, you’ll study the broad spectrum of topics you’d encounter at medical school, including anatomy, physiology, body systems, cell biology, molecular biology, and genetics.
Learn key medical concepts and demystify medical jargonYou’ll be introduced to technical medical jargon and concepts explained in everyday language. Although you won’t know all of the associated medical jargon, you’ll understand the underlying medical concepts, and will build the confidence to ask your doctor to communicate with you in everyday language.
Learn about medicine to make more informed healthcare decisionsAs medicine gets to be more expensive and technical, it’s likely you’ll need to be a healthcare advocate for yourself or those close to you.
This course will empower you with the medical information you need to make good decisions about your health and the health of those around you.
Study with Mini Medical School founder, Dr JJ CohenLead educator and immunologist, Dr JJ Cohen, founded the Mini Medical School in 1989. You’ll learn from his unique approach and study a program attended by over 25,000 learners.
With a U.S. National Glaser Award for outstanding medical school teaching, Dr Cohen also holds honorary degrees from Sherbrooke and McGill University.
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