Mini Med School: Dynamics of Human Health
by Stanford Continuing Studies Program
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Description
Stanford Continuing Studies is proud to present the Stanford Mini Med School, a series arranged and directed by Stanford’s School of Medicine. Featuring more than thirty distinguished faculty, scientists, and physicians from Stanford’s prestigious medical school, this series of courses will offer students a dynamic introduction to the world of human biology, health and disease, and the groundbreaking changes taking place in medical research and health care. The fall quarter course will get started with a journey inside human biology. We will start by familiarizing ourselves with the world of very small things. We will take a close look at DNA, stem cells, and microbes, and see how these and other small players form the building blocks of the human body. This will allow us to understand how human organs develop (and can also regenerate), how our nervous and immune systems work, and how diseases can afflict us. From there, the course will move beyond the individual and take a more global view of health. How do pandemics take shape? How does the environment affect our collective health? And how can we finally implement a healthcare system that makes sense for our nation? Various experts from the Stanford School of Medicine will address these and other big picture questions during the first course in the Stanford Mini Med School. Released with a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Video1. The Physician in Modern Society (September 22, 2009) | Health care, doctors, physician, art, patients, Luke Fildes, painting, family physicians, medical practice, relationships, healing, cure, illness, disease, technology, David Orr, fatigue, examination, encouragement, debt, incentives, concierge practice, m | 1/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Video2. The 3 Rs of DNA: Molecules to Medicine (September 25, 2009) | Science, biology, chemistry, math, humanities, medicine, medical, replication, recombination, repair, drug, health care system, DNA, homologous, site specific, sequence, mutation, cancer, gene, protein, cell, estrogen, RNA, base loss, excision, recombinan | 1/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Video3. Stem Cells & Tissue Regeneration (October 6, 2009) | Science, medicine, biology, disease, treatment, Proposition 71, research, funding, regenerative medicine, cloning, implants, bone, tissues, adaptability, manmade tissue, functional integration, transplants, cancer, regeneration, skeletal renewal, scar tis | 1/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Video4. Insights Into the Brain of an Autistic Child (October 13, 2009) | Science, medicine, biology, genetics, nervous system, brain, Asperger's syndrome, IQ, Leo Kanner, Hans Asperger, language, Rain Man, disability, savant, child care, genetic mutations, genome, SNP, single nucleotide polymorphisms, point mutation, neurons, | 2/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Video5. Genomics and Personalized Medicine (October 20, 2009) | Science, medicine, biology, technology, health, DNA, sequencing, chromosomes, transcription, nucleotides, bases, coding, structural variations, olfactory receptors, human variation, recombination, predisposition testing, pharmacogenomics, BRCA1, BRCA2, ca | 2/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Video6. The World Within Us: Microbes That Help and Harm (October 27, 2009) | Science, biology, medicine, disease, cell biology, prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells, bubonic plague, E. coli, flagella, phage, ecosystem, intestine, digestion, pathogen, organs, organelles, nucleus, DNA, genome, plants, animals, multicellular organisms | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Video7. Influenza Viruses and Pandemics (November 2, 2009) | Science, biology, medicine, infectious disease, vaccine, vaccination, H1N1, swine flu, capsid, RNA, respiratory system, pathogens, hemagglutinin, neuraminidase, amino acid, antigenic drift, antigenic shift, Cholera, immunity, mutation, pharmaceuticals, sa | 2/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Video8. The World Outside Us: The Changing Environment and How It Affects Us (November 10, 2009) | Medicine, infectious disease, Bangladesh, South Asia, Ganges River, Cholera, climate change, epidemiology, ecology, epidemic, pandemic, infections agent, epidemic, rehydration, toxin, small intestine, electrolytes, diarrhea, Vibrio cholerae, stool, rice w | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Video9. Healthcare and Health Reform (November 17, 2009) | Policy, politics, economics, Congress, House of Representatives, Senate, healthcare legislation, costs, insurance, co-payments, health coverage, insurance companies, Congressional Budget Office, Medicare, hospital, taxation, life expectancy, obesity, valu | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Video10. Global Health Challenges in the 21st Century (December 1, 2009) | Global health, HIV, AIDS, Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Internally Displaced People, Doctors Without Borders, Cote d'Ivoire, Chad, tetanus, Rwanda, genocide, Uganda, rape, volunteerism, equity, Millennium Development Goals, Jeffrey Sachs, gender e | 3/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
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