Health and Life Sciences

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  • Health and Medicine
  • Open Courseware (OCW)

Health and Medicine - Open Courseware (OCW)

Computing for Biomedical Scientists

abstraction as mechanism for problem decomposition & solution formulation, computer representation, storage, retrieval, and manipulation, programming paradigm choice on problem-solving approaches, data structures & algorithms, knowledge representation schemes, principles of data modeling for efficient storage & retrieval: projects, related resources

Medical Computing

medical science and practice in age of automation & genome, analysis of computational needs of clinical medicine, approaches used to support those needs, examination of new technologies: readings, projects

Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600

international analysis of impact of epidemic diseases on western society and culture from the bubonic plague to HIV/AIDS and experience of SARS and swine flu, infectious disease and its impact on society, development of public health measures, role of medical ethics, genre of plague literature, social reactions of mass hysteria and violence, rise of the germ theory of disease, development of tropical medicine,comparison of social, cultural and historical impact of major infectious diseases, emerging and re-emerging diseases
 

Supercourse

repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention: Basic Concepts, Principles & Methods, Clinical Epidemiology, Environmental, Family, Children and Women, Injury, Molecular Epidemiology, Occupational, Military, Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Human-Animal Interaction, Infectious Disease, Public, Global, Rehabilitation

Case Studies

variety of cases of interest to health professionals, include managing obesity, arthritis and exercise, using a team approach to help older adults with complex medical problems

Patient Communication Skills

teaching effective patient communication to dentistry students, could also be useful for other healthcare providers: performance keys
 

Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education

ocomputer-aided instructional resource, contains over 2000 images with text illustrating gross and microscopic pathologic findings with radiologic imaging associated with human disease conditions, For self-assessment and study there are over 2000 examination items, more than 20 tutorials in specific subject areas: general & systemic pathology, anatomy-histology, AIDS pathology, case of week

The Future of Human Health

frontiers of human health, each speaker delivers talk in 10-20 minutes about research, discoveries in neuroscience, bioengineering, brain imaging, psychology