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Overview

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

2,763

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Mini Medical School: Hot Topics in Medical Science
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Highlights

  • Duration 4 weeks
  • Weekly study 3 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Course details

Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • Explore the latest research on important medical issues in this dynamic four-week course
  • Able to separate fact from fiction and get all the answers you need when you visit a medical practice
  • The course follows
  • , which explains the basics of modern medicine
  • In this course, those building blocks are used as foundational knowledge as you learn about real-world developments
  • This translational research (theory-to-practice) approach is applied to immunology, infectious diseases, neuroscience, and cancer
  • Get more comfortable with the way health science diagnoses prevents and treats illnesses, making connections between modern medicine theory and application

Mini Medical School: Hot Topics in Medical Science
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Curriculum

Immunology

Welcome to Mini Medical School: Hot Topics in Medicine

Introduction & Innate Immunity

Inflammation

Antibodies

T cells

Immunization

Immunopathology

Old Friends

Transplantation

End of Week 1

Infectious Disease

Infectious disease introduction

Bacterial Disease

Antibiotics and the Microbiome

Malaria

Tuberculosis

Herpes and its relatives

HIV/AIDS

Emerging infectious diseases

Influenza

COVID-19

End of Week 2

Neuroscience

Memory

Learning

Depression

Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia

Autism spectrum disorder

Autism and brain development

Dementia—Alzheimer

Stroke

End of Week 3

Cancer Biology

What is Cancer?

Diagnosis

Statistics

Mutations

Cancer Grades and Stages

Treatment 1

Treatment 2

Cancer Prevention

End of Week 4

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