Medicine & Pharmacology

Explore dying and palliative care practice around the world and evaluate new trends and ideas surrounding end of life care issues. Learn about new directions and the latest thinking on end of life care. Death itself may be certain, but how we die involves many challenges. On this course, [...]

Learn an evidence-based, cognitive behavioural approach to manage low back pain with this CPD course for health professionals. Understand a cognitive behavioural approach to manage ongoing low back pain. On this course you will explore the BeST programme, examining the causes of persistent low back pain, and the cognitive [...]

The first MOOC to teach Human Anatomy from multiple healthcare professional perspectives through a case-based study of stroke. How is the human body structured? How are the different body systems interconnected with each other? If you are interested but layman to Human Anatomy, if you find the Human Anatomy [...]

Discover the science behind targeted cancer treatments on this free course designed for clinical research and oncology nurses. Deepen your understanding and improve communication with patients & colleagues. Thanks to ground-breaking research over the past 20 years, new, more targeted treatments have been developed that are changing the way [...]

Explore the role of food in health. Apply nutrition science to guide you on using food as medicine for you and your family. This course introduces the concept of food as medicine. You will explore how food can be important both in preventative health and as an aid in [...]

Learn the science behind how and why medicines work, and what can improve patient's treatment, with this online course. What do you know about the medicines you take? The world’s growing population faces major health issues, and medicines are a primary pillar to effect better health. Learn about the [...]

More than a century ago, Elie Metchnikoff established the bases of cellular innate immunity when he discovered the mechanism of phagocytosis. However, during most of the XXth century, adaptive immunity (also known as specific immunity) focused most of the interest of the researchers, until Charles Janeway and Polly Matzinger [...]