Health Care Courses

UCT

Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics

690 reviews

If you’ve ever skipped over`the results section of a medical paper because terms like “confidence interval” or “p-value” go over your head, then you’re in the right place.

• Coursera
• 27 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 1 week from now (18th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Discover Dentistry

155 reviews

An entertaining and illuminating course for everyone to explore the impact dentistry has on our lives.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

UCT

Medicine and the Arts: Humanising Healthcare

98 reviews

Explore the field of medical humanities - the intersection of the arts, humanities and healthcare - with this free online course.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• 28th Feb, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research

67 reviews

On this free online course, find out how medical treatments are discovered, tested and evaluated to improve healthcare for all.

• FutureLearn
• 4 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• 4th Apr, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

HMS;  Harvard

Best Practices for Biomedical Research Data Management (HE)

56 reviews

With the increasing focus on research data, this course has been developed to address present and future researchers’ data management learning needs.

• Canvas Network
• 7 hours a week
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Health Across the Gender Spectrum

5 reviews

This course offers an intimate, story-based introduction to the experiences of six transgender children and their families. Through illustrated stories and short teaching videos, learners will gain a better understanding of gender identity and the gender…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 1 week from now (18th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Health After Cancer: Cancer Survivorship for Primary Care

This course presents basic principles of cancer survivorship to primary-care physicians. Developed by a team of experts in caring for cancer survivors, and narrated by a primary-care physician, this course provides practical tips and tools that can be ea…

• Coursera
• 2-3 hours worth of material, 1 week long
• 1 week from now (18th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Health Technology Assessment: Choosing Which Treatments Get Funded

30 reviews

Before new drugs or treatments are adopted, their effectiveness and cost must be assessed. Find out how in this online course.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching and Assessing Clinical Skills

4 reviews

The purpose of this course is to improve feedback, clinical teaching, and assessment of clinical skills.

• Coursera
• 16 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Health Care Innovation

3 reviews

In this course, you’ll learn the foundational economic theories behind health care innovation and how to optimize your own health care practice or organization. Designed to help you gain a practical understanding of the theoretical frameworks of behavior…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials

4 reviews

Clinical trials are experiments designed to evaluate new interventions to prevent or treat disease in humans. The interventions evaluated can be drugs, devices (e.g., hearing aid), surgeries, behavioral interventions (e.g., smoking cessation program), co…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 1 week from now (18th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Measuring and Maximizing Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing

4 reviews

This course aims to provide managers and developers of contact tracing programs guidance on the most important indicators of performance of a contact tracing program, and a tool that can be used to project the likely impact of improvements in specific in…

• Coursera
• 3-4 hours worth of material, 1 week long
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Measuring and Valuing Health

26 reviews

Learn how Patient Reported Outcome Measures and Quality Adjusted Life Years can compare treatments and inform healthcare spending.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Michigan Sport-Related Concussion Training Certification

3 reviews

Welcome to the Michigan Sport-Related Concussion Training Certification. In this course, you will learn about five key components of sport-related concussions: identify medical emergencies, debrief the Michigan Youth Concussion Legislature, review rest a…

• Coursera
• 1 week long
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Cataract Surgery

2 reviews

This comprehensive course will give you the fundamental knowledge needed to begin performing cataract surgery by phacoemulsification and extracapsular removal. Each step from preoperative evaluation to postoperative care will be covered to help prepare…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)