Medicine Courses and Certifications

Session 7: The obstacle is the way

Explore the complexities of diagnosing and treating pain while learning to recognize and address biases that can influence patient care.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

2022 - 2023 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds

Monthly grand rounds applying evidence-based practice in child and adolescent psychiatry.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

2022-2023 Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Academic Grand Rounds

Monthly psychiatry grand rounds explore specialized mental health topics and current treatment best practices for patients with behavioral issues.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Academic Detailing: Best Practices for Treatment of Acute Pain

Practical tools for safer postoperative acute pain treatment, including opioid dose calculation, naloxone prescribing, and non-opioid options.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Academic Detailing Group Presentation: Best Practices for Treatment of Acute Pain - Post Activity

Practical guidance for managing postoperative acute pain, including safer opioid dosing, naloxone for high-risk patients, and non-opioid treatment options.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Measuring Pharmacodynamics: From Ligand Binding to Clinical Outcomes

Drugs are biologically active compounds. Drug discovery and drug development rely on methods for measuring biological activity. The term “activity” is quite general. In practice, a substance’s biologi

• edX
• 3 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Representations of HIV/AIDS

Why study Representations of HIV/AIDS? What is our course philosophy? This class engages students in a transdisciplinary conversation about representations of HIV/AIDS: in scientific articles, journal

• edX
• 10 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Preclinical Safety: From In Vitro Assays to Human Dose Predictions

Drugs are approved based on their “safety and efficacy”. Determining the safety of a drug occurs through studies that are largely completely separate from efficacy studies. The safety studies fall und

• edX
• 3 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

Drug Activity, Disposition, and Safety

This focused certificate program introduces students to the foundational concepts that underpin how drugs behave in the body and how their safety is evaluated before entering clinical trials.

• edX
• 9 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $267.00
• 3 courses

Medical School for Everyone: Pediatrics Grand Rounds

23 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

Uncover clues to figure out appropriate diagnoses in pediatric medicine led by a pediatrician and professor.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 12 hours 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

21 ratings at OpenLearn

In this free course you will explore two aspects of strength and conditioning in sport and fitness: speed and power. Strength and conditioning is the physical preparation of athletes and in this ...

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Human Reproduction

5 ratings at edX

Let’s talk about all things relating to human reproduction - from puberty to menopause, to fertility and contraception.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

18 ratings at OpenLearn

The ability to recover quickly from an intensive training session or match can be extremely advantageous to sports performers. Sport and fitness participants are increasingly using strategies such ...

• OpenLearn
• 8 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

An introduction to death, dying and grief

17 ratings at OpenLearn

Explore interesting and challenging ideas around death, dying and grief. This free course, An introduction to death, dying and grief, invites you to think more deeply about death and dying and ...

• OpenLearn
• 7 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Biomedical Imaging Technologies - MRI, fMRI, Ultrasound, and Nuclear Imaging

3 ratings

A survey of biomedical imaging technologies, from non-ionizing MRI and brain-function fMRI to ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and optical imaging.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video