Ebola On The Ground: The Response
O.B. Sisay, Situation Room Director of Sierra Leone’s National Ebola Response Centre, takes us on a step-by-step guide to how Sierra Leoneans worked tirelessly to get the Ebola outbreak under …
Course: Mini Medical School: Hot Topics in Medical Science
Malaria: Human Host BioInteractive Animation
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has made a beautiful short animation (of the part of the malaria life cycle that takes place in humans. I bet the average American doesn’t …
Diagnosis and Treatment of COVID-19
As we continue our discussion about COVID-19, we transition from understanding the biology and symptoms to highlighting the diagnosis and treatment. With the wide range of symptoms, there are also …
Biology and Symptoms of COVID-19
It is no surprise that the global COVID-19 pandemic is a very hot topic in medicine. COVID-19, or the Coronavirus-19 virus has affected everyone in one way or another. We …
Reflecting on the Course
Congratulations!! You have completed all four weeks of Mini Medical School: Hot Topics in Medical Science. We hope you now have a better understanding of these important topics in the …
Week 3 Reflection
Congrats, you completed week 3! This week we focused on neuroscience. We looked at how memory and learning work on a neurological level. Then we focused on disorders and the …
Welcome to Mini Medical School: Hot Topics in Medicine
Welcome to Mini Medical School: Hot Topics in Medicine! This is the second course in our Mini Medical School Series. If you haven’t yet taken it, we highly encourage you …
RSA Animate – The Divided Brain
In this 2011 RSA video, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and (Western) society. It’s as much philosophy and …
I had a black dog, his name was depression
The original World Health Organization (WHO, OMS) video about what living with depression is like. It’s had almost 8 million views on YouTube. Dog lovers, this wasn’t meant to suggest …
Plants get cancer too
It sound odd, but plants do in fact get a form of cancer. Because they don’t have a closed circulation like us mammals do, and because their cell walls make …
Dear Teacher: Heartfelt Advice for Teachers from Students
A group of special students remind their teachers (and everyone needs to hear them) that they want to learn, but they sometimes have their own way of doing things. And …
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