Geriatric Care Courses

Stanford Medcast Episode 20: Hot Topics Miniseries - Tele-Guided Pediatric Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Explores tele-guided pediatric point-of-care ultrasound, including its benefits, limitations, global access potential, COVID-19 impact, and clinician training.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Best Practices for SMA in an Evolving Era: Advantages & Challenges of Multidisciplinary Care (RECORDED SESSIONS)

Recorded sessions examine evolving multidisciplinary medical and rehabilitative care for spinal muscular atrophy, including therapies, newborn screening, ethics, phenotypes, and exercise strategies.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Medcast Episode 13: COVID-19 Miniseries - Palliative Care During COVID-19

Explores how COVID-19 reshaped palliative care, including difficult family conversations by video or phone and team support against burnout.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Project ECHO Diabetes in the Time of COVID-19: Tackling Therapeutic Inertia: American Diabetes Association Standard of Care Updates (Recorded Webinar)

Updates to American Diabetes Association standards help primary care providers manage complex type 1 and type 2 diabetes during COVID-19.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Hypertension in Primary Care - Improving Control and Reducing Risk

Interactive cases teach clinicians to diagnose and manage uncomplicated and resistant hypertension using current guidelines and treatment regimens.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

The Accelerating Energy Transition - Where Our Energy Comes From and Why We Should Care

Explore energy sources, understand why energy matters for climate and society, and discover revolutionary transitions reshaping our energy future with Stanford expert Diana Gragg.

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

Health Care Innovation

306 ratings at Coursera

Learn to optimize health care delivery: run innovation discovery with ethnography and hypotheses, measure flow rate, flow time and inventory, map processes, and assess value and quality.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Mary Greeley Medical Center

Integrating Psycho-Oncology in Cancer Care: Updates and Best Practices

18 ratings

Explore psycho-oncology practices for addressing psychosocial factors, distress, therapy, family concerns, and support throughout cancer care.

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

Health for All Through Primary Health Care

288 ratings at Coursera

Explore Health for All and primary health care: their origins and principles, implementation in resource-constrained settings, and community health worker–based programs, plus your own implementation plan.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Economics of Health Care Delivery

706 ratings at Coursera

Analyze health care through an economic lens: provider types, insurance risk aversion and moral hazard, payment models, price discrimination, and antitrust review of hospital mergers.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Cost of Care: Why is U.S. Healthcare so Expensive?

Examine why U.S. healthcare costs so much: high prices, service intensity, fragmented financing, and how England's and Germany's governance and regulation contain spending.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

The Business of Health Care

1990 ratings at Coursera

Learn how the American health care system works: financial acumen for non-financial managers, the economics of care delivery, management fundamentals, and health care innovation.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Service Transformed: Lessons in U.S. Veteran Centered Care

17 ratings at Coursera

Learn to deliver veteran-centered care: examine health disparities, confront personal bias and stereotypes, build empathy in the clinical encounter, and assess PTSD and traumatic brain injury.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Life 101: Mental and Physical Self-Care

277 ratings at Coursera

Build healthier habits with evidence-based lessons and practice on stress physiology, nutrition, mindfulness, exercise, sleep, volunteering, campus drug use, personal finances, and nature therapy.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Settings

1 rating

Explores how health information systems can improve care quality and strengthen health infrastructure in resource-poor settings.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course