3D Heart Animation
An animation from the Sketchfab group offers a chance to study the beating heart in 3D, and rotate and move it to see how the valves coordinate their motion. You …
Course: Mini Medical School: Introduction to Medical Science
What is the Rarest Blood Type?
What is the rarest blood type? The rarest blood type is Bombay. A patient who came to the King Edward Hospital (KEH) in Mumbai, require a blood transfusion. He was …
Most Common Signs of a Heart Attack
Most common warning signs of a heart attack Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of the chest that lasts more than a few minutes, or that goes away …
Reflecting on week 1 and looking ahead to week 2
You have reached the end of week one – congrats! We hope you are enjoying the content and are excited to continue engaging with the course in the following weeks! …
My X-Ray Swallows
Watch a video of a person swallowing a dense liquid that is visible by x-ray. Refer to the labeled image of the x-ray in the related files of this step …
What are cells made of?
All living things that we know on Earth are made up of cells. Most creatures are just a single cell that includes bacteria, archaea (very like bacteria in some ways …
Vancomycin and the Chemistry of Antibiotic Resistance
(double click on the video above to see full screen and see video controls) Now that we know about amino acids linking up with peptide bonds, it’s a good time …
The Sodium-Potassium Pump
A clear animation of a pump in the plasma membrane that exchanges sodium for potassium ions. It uses a little ATP to do that, creating an electrical potential across the …
The Downfall of India’s Kidney Kingpin
Here is a story in Discover magazine on the surprising rise and fall of Amit Kumar, who controlled the kidney transplant trade in India in spite of not being a …
Muscle Contraction Overview Animation
If you’re interested in more detail about how muscles work at a cellular and molecular level, this is an excellent video by the medical illustrators Graham Johnson and Quade Paul. …
Myology – Skeletal Muscle Contraction
If you want to know more about muscle contraction, here is a very nicely done animation by Armando Hasudungan, a student who does first-rate work. This is an additional video, …
How to: Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis with Ultrasound
A really interesting video showing how a simple ultrasound machine can be used to visualize arteries and veins and tell whether the vein is obstructed by a clot (thrombus.) There …
Peristaltic Wave in the Gastric Antrum
A peek into the bottom of the stomach using an endoscope to see it as it would look pushing its contents into the small intestine! This is an additional video, …
How Anatomists Examine Organs at a Microscopic Level
How anatomists examine organs at a microscopic scale The light microscope can enlarge images hundreds of times to see the details. Light must be able to pass through the object, …
Reflecting on the course
Congratulations! You have completed all three weeks of the Mini Medical School: Introduction to Medical Science course! We hope you have enjoyed the content in this course. Our goal was …
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Mini Medical School: Introduction to Medical Science