Medical Explorer Program: Healthcare Practice and Futures

36 Lectures. Explore the building blocks of life: biochemistry and molecular biology.

24 Lectures. Travel into a transformative moment in history and learn how the Black Death ignited processes that led to the Renaissance, the Reformation, and beyond.

24 Lectures. Beginning with an exploration of the function of cells and common forms of injury to them, the course then proceeds through examinations of inflammatory and immune responses, infectious diseases, shock, cancer, and wound healing. These lectures provide a viewer with tools to understand diseases and injuries and the body's reaction to them.

24 Lectures. This course will take you on a voyage through the fascinating world of infectious diseases. You will travel through the centuries and right up to current outbreaks of new, emerging and often deadly diseases. You will travel side by side with germs as they hitch rides by land, sea, and air, spreading their virulence worldwide. With many germs around us daily, this course will identify the beneficial ones and help you avoid or destroy the ones that cause disease.

60 Lectures. The lectures in this series explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of the physical and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more--providing a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science.

24 Lectures. In discussing the scope of his presentation, the lecturer states that "because you are ultimately responsible for your own health, it's critical to understand the accuracy of medical information--to break down the growing body of misinformation and discover the truth about everyday health and well-being. These 24 lectures are an empowering learning experience that will give you evidence-based guidelines for good health, will enhance your ability to be better informed about common medical myths, and will strengthen your skills at assessing the scientific truth behind medical information and advice.

24 Lectures. Experience for yourself the high-stakes drama, scientific detective work, and medical insights of life in an everyday emergency department. By the end of this 24-lecture rotation, you'll have a stronger knowledge of, and greater respect for, emergency medicine and the brave doctors who practice it.

24 Lectures. This course offers a miniature medical school curriculum for nondoctors, structured into a "grand rounds" format similar to how medical students and experienced physicians are taught at hospitals and universities.

24 Lectures. Little patients can have big ailments. Join an expert pediatrician to solve real-life medical mysteries in infants, toddlers, and teens.

12 Lectures. The latest research shows that people almost never "rise to the occasion" when faced with a life-threatening challenge, regardless of how often we hear that phrase. Instead, as Professor Nancy Zarse explains in the 12 empowering lectures of Survival Mentality: The Psychology of Staying Alive, people generally revert to their lowest level of training and preparation. And Professor Zarse knows this firsthand. She brings not only her academic knowledge, consulting experience with the FBI, hostage negotiation experience, and more, but also her personal experience fighting for her life in unexpected and dangerous situations.

24 Lectures. Understanding genetics is like sitting down to work a massive puzzle. With each piece you examine, think through, and solve, you glean a new and amazing insight into humanity. Put several pieces together, and you can treat or cure a disease, save a developing fetus from a fatal birth defect, catch a criminal, or reunite a family ... Each lecture begins with a helpful story that illustrates the importance of genetics. The course explicitly outlines the connections between the science of genetics and the health-related problems that plague us in modern society, and illuminates how studying genetics can be instrumental in solving those problems.

32 Lectures. Each lecture concentrates on a particular organ or organ system, beginning with the cardiovascular system, and on through the respiratory, nervous, digestive, endocrine, urinary, reproductive, musculoskeletal, and immune systems. The last also investigates the biology of cancer. This course introduces anatomy and correlates the findings in anatomy with the functioning of the normal human body, its physiology.

This DVD represents a research-informed video case study of Kate who is trying to cope with four major experiences of bereavement and loss. It contains an emotionally powerful counselling session in which the counselling psychologist Anthony Crouch helps Kate to begin to tolerate her pain, develop a spark of hope for the future and identify key therapeutic goals. In the DVD Anthony also provides four commentaries that are informed by the very latest research: commentaries on both the session and the subsequent review together with an introduction to both loss and bereavement and the factors that contribute to therapeutic change.

The Psychological Response to Injury discusses the critical, but often overlooked, emotional consequences of injury to athletes. From a psychological-perspective, the DVD looks at the numerous factors that can influence an athlete's reaction to injury, the challenges of identifying athletes at risk, and the warning signs for a potential problematic response. The DVD also offers an in-depth risk profile, and lists the barriers and facilitators to athletes seeking help. Furthermore, the DVD details strategies and tools that medical professionals can use to support the emotional needs that frequently accompany a sports injury. In addition, the DVD points out that the mental aspects of injury are a key component of a comprehensive approach to injury rehabilitation, and suggests ways that coaches and teammates can be involved and help the injured athlete in the psychological rehabilitation process from injury onset to return to play.

The hospital is a unique working environment. Employees may be exposed to potential hazards on a daily basis, as are patients and visitors. According to OSHA all hospital staff must be trained on the primary safety issues. This new 18-minute program covers all the mandatories, including updates to the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS).

Drama illuminating one doctor's pioneering efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic. Set against the background of the Armistice in November, 1918, as millions of exhausted soldiers return home from the Great War, the film tells the little-known story of Dr. James Niven, Manchester's medical health officer for thirty years, and his heroic efforts to combat a second wave of fatal influenza as it spreads across the city and the U.K.

"Evolution" offers a groundbreaking and definitive view of the extraordinary impact the evolutionary process has had on our understanding of the world around us. Beginning with Darwin's revolutionary theory, this seven-part series explores all facets of evolution--the changes that spawned the tree of life, the power of sex, how evolution continues to affect us every day, and the perceived conflict between science and religion.
Contents: Darwin's dangerous idea / written and directed by David Espar & Susan K. Lewis (ca. 120 min.) -- Great transformations / written by Joel Olicker & Chris Schmidt (ca. 60 min.) -- Extinction! / written, produced and directed by Kate Churchill & Richard Hutton (ca. 60 min.) -- The evolutionary arms race / written and directed by Gail Willumsen (ca. 60 min.) -- Why sex? / written, produced and directed by Noel Buckner & Robert Whittlesey (ca. 60 min.) -- The mind's big bang / written by John Heminway (ca. 60 min.) -- What about God? / telescript by Bill Jersey, Mark Page ; story by Mark Page (ca. 60 min.).