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Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
Course reviewed 4 years ago
Excellent and insightful MOOC that is the perfect sequel to Learning How to Learn (LHTL); this is taken best as your second-ever MOOC after LHTL to ha…
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Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects
Course reviewed 4 years ago
This is the perfect MOOC to begin your quest for lifelong learning both online and physically. There are a lot of practical tips to make studying and …
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Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Course reviewed 4 years ago
This is an excellent introductory course to the basics of conducting systematic reviews with or without meta-analyses, and a good prelude to books tha…
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Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics
Course reviewed 4 years ago
A must-take course for anyone, regardless of background, interested in having a good grasp of the medical literature.
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Learning How To Learn for Youth
Course reviewed 4 years ago
A must-take for young/primary-secondary school-level learners of any inclinations as well as educators to help their students learn efficiently; to go…
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Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent concise practical guide to clinical statistics and epidemiology, and evidence-based medicine. Everyone, casual learners or expert…
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Foundations of Healthcare Systems Engineering
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is a comprehensive introduction of a field that can transform healthcare. While the contents can prove challenging to the uninitiated, at …
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Schizophrenia
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is arguably the best starting point for anyone interested in the study, management and research of schizophrenia. Dr. Kurtz did a fantasti…
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Career planning: resume/CV, cover letter, interview
Course reviewed 3 years ago
A concise, practical and authoritative guide to resume/CV, cover letter and interview preparation, Dr. Mitchell (who [1] is also very active in the di…
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Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an impressive introductory course on the nitty-gritty on the preparation and conduct of clinical trials. However, a working knowledge on the b…
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COVID-19 Training for Healthcare Workers
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a comprehensive practical course for managing patients with COVID-19 (and perhaps other highly similar diseases or infections) that is useful …
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Thinking Critically: Interpreting Randomized Clinical Trials
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This could either be a concise introduction to analyzing randomized clinical trials (RCTs), or a short review for those looking for a refresher on the…
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Thinking Critically Series: Interpreting Screening Trials
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I find this course a good refresher in understanding the essentials of conducting and analyzing screening trials.
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Michigan Sport-Related Concussion Training Certification
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course can be completed in a single sitting and provides practical recommendations for taking care of athletes from injury to return to athletic …
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Six Sigma Principles
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent introductory course to Lean Six Sigma. In contrast to most other online course, though, the quizzes are relatively difficult espe…
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Global Biosecurity for One Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a short but sweet introduction to biosecurity in the context of One Health - an ever-important perspective that has grown exponentially popula…
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Psychology of Popularity
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This offering opened my eyes to how impactful your peer/social standing was in childhood to your current disposition. Notably, there is a great room f…
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Mechanical Ventilation for COVID-19
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is undoubtedly challenging but highly fulfilling upon completion. Complementing video-watching with notes and further reading is highly re…
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Dementia and Diversity in Primary Care: A Primer - Guidelines, Ethnic Differences, and Assessment
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great introduction to the Stanford Medicine course series about an epidemiologic time bomb needing urgent attention. I am looking forward to…
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Introduction to Project Management with ClickUp
Course reviewed 3 years ago
It might be because this is my first-ever Coursera Guided Project, but I find this material average and less enjoyable than conventional online course…
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Diabetes – the Essential Facts
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an extremely useful course for both the lay and the practitioner to understand state-of-the-art thinking on diabetes mellitus.
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Biostatistics in Public Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This Course Specialization allowed me to tie loose ends on commonly-encountered biostatistics topics for use in research and teaching. While there are…
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Hypothesis Testing in Public Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a comprehensive introduction to conventional hypothesis testing procedures (for beginners or perhaps those who do not have solid theoretical f…
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Summary Statistics in Public Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a good and enticing introduction for the rest of the Coursera Specialization where it belongs. For added value, consider taking this course wi…
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Simple Regression Analysis in Public Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I would consider this an intuitive introduction to linear regression as a powerful statistical tool. The use of data from real studies is also a nice …
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Multiple Regression Analysis in Public Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
Expectedly, this course is a notch higher in difficulty compared to the preceding course in the Coursera Specialization. The conceptual explanations w…
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Measuring Causal Effects in the Social Sciences
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a challenging course, especially for those who only intend to breeze through the videos alone. Reading the recommended text before and/or afte…
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Psychological First Aid
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is eye-opening in the sense that it shows that anyone can make a difference in the lives of acute event survivors even in seemingly-"littl…
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Research Data Management and Sharing
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great introductory course in handling research data through its entire life cycle. With global digitization, all researchers (and even non-r…
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Feminism and Social Justice
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I am honored to take this insightful short course and listen to one of the modern pioneers of feminism as we know it today. Professor Aptheker tours y…
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Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great course, which I think is aimed toward casual learners or beginners to entice them into pursuing the field further. The strength of thi…
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COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Course reviewed 3 years ago
Concise and excellently prepared and delivered! This is a practical training course for anyone interested to contribute to the pandemic effort as a co…
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Measuring and Maximizing Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is a nice complement to the preceding COVID-19 Contact Tracing course also offered by the same institution. While that course is aimed to …
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Fighting COVID-19 with Epidemiology: A Johns Hopkins Teach-Out
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a nice summary on immediately-applicable epidemiologic concepts to the understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic. The course draws from material …
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Public Health Perspectives on Sustainable Diets
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an engaging and concise course on food systems and their public health and environmental implications. As a casual learner on the topic at thi…
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Research Design: Inquiry and Discovery
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is the course that I hoped to receive before going to college but, unfortunately, did not get. I am strongly recommending this course for those w…
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COVID-19: What You Need to Know
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great mini-course that may double as a cheatsheet for new medical frontliners or a tool for lay or patient education.
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Motivational Enhancement Techniques: Working with Patients with Opioid & Substance Use Disorders or High Risk Use MAT Waiver Training Supplemental Course
Course reviewed 3 years ago
While the title of the course emphasized that it is a supplement (to the two larger courses of the same theme by the same institution), I was still di…
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A Crash Course in Data Science
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This short course is a great primer to both data science and the Coursera Specialization to which it belongs.
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Building a Data Science Team
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a good introduction to the structure and function of group members in a data science endeavor.
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Managing Data Analysis
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I find this course a nice overview of not only data management for data science purposes, but for research in general.
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Data Science in Real Life
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I enjoyed taking this course and I think that it delivers on what it promises on the title. I recommend taking this course after the first three recom…
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Executive Data Science Capstone
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I find this concluding course a rather enjoyable experience, and provides a nice situational example of how data science can be useful in practice.
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Executive Data Science
Course reviewed 3 years ago
As someone who is interested to learn about the field and apply its techniques to my future career, I find this course to be an excellent and systemat…
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Giving Helpful Feedback
Course reviewed 3 years ago
A practical and engaging course on productively interacting with people in any team endeavor, the instructor did a great job explaining both the theor…
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Prehospital care of acute stroke and patient selection for endovascular treatment using the RACE scale
Course reviewed 3 years ago
There is a lot of practical information here that is useful for a wide range of audiences - lay people, allied health professionals, medical students,…
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Understanding Research Methods
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an engaging and interactive course that serves, for me, as "re-affirming" material on why do and how to do research. The readings are particul…
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AI For Everyone
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a must-take course for anyone planning to embark on a career in artificial intelligence. It was a pleasure listening to one of the industry's …
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The People, Power, and Pride of Public Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This short course has a uniquely creative way to drive its points home, drawing on (American) public health luminaries who have made unprecedented imp…
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Essential Epidemiologic Tools for Public Health Practice
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent introduction to the Coursera Specialization and I am looking forward to the succeeding courses.
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Data and Health Indicators in Public Health Practice
Course reviewed 3 years ago
There is a lot of relatively new information here even for an intermediate-level public health worker, and I would recommend this course for those int…
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Surveillance Systems: The Building Blocks
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a comprehensive foundational course on one of the most useful concepts in epidemiology - surveillance. The instructor is definitely an expert …
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Surveillance Systems: Analysis, Dissemination, and Special Systems
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great follow-up to the preceding course (Surveillance Systems: The Building Blocks) in the Coursera Specialization series where it belongs. …
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Outbreaks and Epidemics
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a very relevant course (especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic) and neatly illustrates the conceptual components of an outbreak in…
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Epidemiology in Public Health Practice
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This relatively short Coursera Specialization is a well-made introduction to the general strokes of public health epidemiology. I would recommend this…
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Dermatology: Trip to skin
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is more comprehensive than I usually expect in Coursera courses, so I highly appreciate this offering as a medical professional-in trainin…
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Measuring Disease in Epidemiology
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great introduction to both the Coursera Specialization where it belongs. The lectures, quizzes and other contents are engaging and well-made…
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Study Designs in Epidemiology
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course provided me with a better conceptual grasp of the popular study designs implemented in both clinical and public health research. I highly …
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Validity and Bias in Epidemiology
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is an impressive conclusion to the Coursera Specialization where it belongs, and truly builds on the previous 2 courses (Measuring Disease…
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Epidemiology for Public Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This Coursera Specialization is well-made and delivers in making difficult epidemiology concepts more understandable even among undergraduates. The qu…
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Drug Discovery
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is a great introduction to the technical details of the drug discovery process. The resource persons and the instructors have done a great…
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Drug Development
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course adequately introduced the issues and the reality of the drug development process through the several expert presenters. Being interested i…
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Drug Commercialization
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a highly insightful course on the reality (both the highs and lows) of the drug commercialization process. Unfortunately, as of this writing, …
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Drug Development Product Management
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This Coursera Specialization is an excellent introduction to the typical iteration component processes of pharmaceutical endeavors (which include not …
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Lymphoedema: Monitoring & Intervention After Breast Cancer
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent comprehensive overview of breast cancer-associated lymphedema and its monitoring and management.
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Sit Less, Get Active
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is highly informative for a wide range of audiences. The material is easily digestible and filled with evidence-based suggestions on start…
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Introduction to Psychology
Course reviewed 3 years ago
As someone who has finished college long ago, is currently in medical & graduate school without having experienced a formal rigorous course in psychol…
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Academic Information Seeking
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great overview of the resource or reference collection processes for academic literature review endeavors - be it narrative or systematic. W…
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Industrial Biotechnology
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an extremely interesting course and has widened my understanding of career & research options in biotechnology. Nevertheless, I think that at …
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Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Overview
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an impressive and comprehensive overview of a certainly-grand topic and field. I highly recommend this course to those who want to pursue grad…
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Mountains 101
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I will not complain and fully welcome any assessment that this is one of the best, if not the best, MOOCs in existence. I am simply in awe of the subj…
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Introduction to Self-Determination Theory: An approach to motivation, development and wellness
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course elegantly presented the science behind the Self-Determination Theory by no less than one of its pioneers. The contents of this course and …
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The Sustainable Development Goals – A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course presents an intimate, behind-the-scenes perspective on the Sustainable Development Goals, its ambitions and its issues & limitations. Pro…
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Introduction to Personal Branding
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I deeply appreciate the practicality of the course and the friendly demeanor of the instructor. This course is particularly useful for people like me …
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The Science of Well-Being
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a very insightful course on a topic that hits close to everyone's home. The recommendations for a life of wellness enclosed in this material a…
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Introduction to Philosophy
Course reviewed 3 years ago
As someone in grad school whose first and only formal exposure to academic philosophy was a single introductory course in college, this course was ext…
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Know Thyself - The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge: The Examined Life
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an extremely insightful course, and it made the cited ancient philosophical texts much more accessible for casual philosophy learners like me.…
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Know Thyself - The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge: The Unconscious
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great, albeit more challenging, follow-up to KT-TVLSK: The Examined Life. In this course, neuroscience and psychology take a bigger role as …
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Intellectual Humility: Theory
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I have taken this course before U of Edinburgh's MOOC offerings "Introduction to Philosophy" and the "Know Thyself" series, and I do think that this c…
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Intellectual Humility: Science
Course reviewed 3 years ago
While the first course in the series ("Intellectual Humility: Theory") provides working definitions as a reliable frame of reference for both the cour…
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Intellectual Humility: Practice
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is an impressive conclusion to the "Intellectual Humility" series, filled with practical insights on "staying in lane" when faced with int…
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Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Physical Sciences
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This amazing course highlights the intersection and interaction of philosophy and the physical sciences through the history of the latter fields' unde…
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Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences
Course reviewed 3 years ago
Like its twin course dealing with the physical sciences, this offering is amazing and insightful in providing an overview of our collective and growin…
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EDIVET: Do you have what it takes to be a veterinarian?
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I took this course as out of pure casual interest, as I am already in the (human) medical field. Nevertheless, I deeply enjoyed this course and feel t…
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Myocardial Infarction
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent review course on the subject for medical students, nurses and medical graduates alike. The quizzes demand not only viewing the le…
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Teach English Now! Foundational Principles
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an extremely engaging, enjoyable, whole-rounded and well-prepared course, perhaps one of the best MOOCs I have taken. While this course (and t…
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Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I have been looking for a college-level education in logic (since I never had one during my college days), and this course perfectly quenched the thir…
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Foundations of Health Equity Research
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course provides a compelling overview of both the issues surrounding and academic-community research pursuits regarding health equity. With the o…
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The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I am deeply interested in the topic because I believe that the Holocaust is humanity's lowest point (and I hope to contribute to efforts in ensuring s…
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Finding Purpose and Meaning In Life: Living for What Matters Most
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is such a heartfelt course that draws from Dr. Strecher's experiences, expertise and personal learning & soul-searching. This is not your generic…
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Digital Footprint
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This short course is for those who are not even casually aware of their digital footprint (and its possible implications for their current and future …
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High Level Biocontainment for Healthcare Facilities
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is a technical overview in minimizing the risks for healthcare staff (and other patients) while taking care of patients infected with high…
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Mindware: Critical Thinking for the Information Age
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is an excellent distillation of what "mental tools" everyone today must have in examining information and dealing with the modern world in…
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Basics of Extracellular Vesicles
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This technical course provides a comprehensive overview of the history in the understanding of, underlying introductory concepts of, and experimental …
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Antimicrobial resistance - theory and methods
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent overview of the standard techniques and best practices for assessing antimicrobial resistance. Even in the era of molecular-based…
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Whole genome sequencing of bacterial genomes - tools and applications
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent course, both in itself and as a state-of-the-art follow-up to the DTU's "Antimicrobial resistance - theory and methods" course. T…
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Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in Public Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a comprehensive and well-made overview of statistical principles and techniques (1) in the context of public health and (2) that will be usefu…
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Linear Regression in R for Public Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
As my first formal foray to R, I highly appreciate the hands-on approach of this course. While I have been aware and using linear regression for vario…
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EMT Foundations
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great introduction to the Coursera Specialization where it belongs, providing fundamental information and principles on the roles, responsib…
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Preventative Healthcare for the Newborn Baby
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This excellent course will likely work well with a wide range of audiences - from medical students, general practitioners and aspiring pediatricians w…
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Medical Emergencies: Airway, Breathing, and Circulation
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great overview of the principles surrounding acute medical care of out-of-hospital emergencies. Medical students and primary care practition…
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Clinical Epidemiology
Course reviewed 3 years ago
While there are undoubtedly numerous great MOOC offerings on the same topic/discipline, this course stands out for the unique conceptual paradigm it u…
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Fundamentals of Immunology: Innate Immunity and B-Cell Function
Course reviewed 3 years ago
First off, this course is not for the "faint of heart" (i.e., people taking courses casually/in stride) - it can be argued that this offering is close…
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What is Palliative Care?
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is an excellent, whole-rounded introduction to palliative care. The inter-professional experience and expertise of the course creators are…
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Pain Management: Easing Pain in Palliative Care
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is useful for professional practitioners, non-professional caregivers and even patients themselves to understand the recommendations and, …
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The Newborn Assessment
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent review material for medical students and general practitioners in the clinical examination of the newborn. Pediatric trainees and…
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Introduction to the Biology of Cancer
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is an excellent introduction to and/or review of fundamental concepts involving cancer biology and hallmarks. For casual learners, the mat…
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Understanding Cancer Metastasis
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is a nice distillation of the current concepts regarding cancer metastasis - a phenomenon that is, more often than not, a death sentence t…
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Understanding Prostate Cancer
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is highly recommended for medical students (and perhaps residents-in-training) who wish to have a structured understanding of prostate can…
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Queering Identities: LGBTQ+ Sexuality and Gender Identity
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a highly insightful course on being on the loop in current sexuality and gender identity issues. To understand and contribute favorably in add…
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Medical Emergencies: CPR, Toxicology, and Wilderness
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course excellently compresses the science and best practice of CPR-, toxicology- and wilderness medicine-related care to an easily-digestible mat…
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Guidance to Keep Newborn Babies Safe and Healthy
Course reviewed 3 years ago
As a medical student, I learned a lot of uniquely new concepts and recommendations from this course. I think that most of the content of this offering…
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Mind Control: Managing Your Mental Health During COVID-19
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a much-needed course for everyone regardless of whether you feel anxious of the current social climate. For those who feel emotionally drained…
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Supporting Parents of a Newborn Baby
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent follow-up to the preceding courses in the Coursera Specialization where it belongs. Much like the immediately previous/3rd course…
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HPV-Associated Oral and Throat Cancer: What You Need to Know
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This offering is a great academic summary on oral and throat cancers secondary to HPV. Medical students and surgeons-/oncologists-in-training will fin…
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Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Approach
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a sweet comprehensive overview of the science and art of public health practice, focusing on the bigger relevant picture of the field rather t…
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Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: Developing a Systems View (Patient Safety I)
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I feel that I learned a lot about care safety and quality simply by taking this relatively short course. The material establishes the history and base…
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Acute and Chronic Rhinosinusitis: A Comprehensive Review
Course reviewed 3 years ago
One of the most complicated and nuanced topics to study in medical school otorhinolaryngology rotations, I highly appreciate the clarity provided by t…
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Easing Physical Symptoms: It's Not Just Hospice Anymore
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This fantastic course is, so far, arguably the best discussion I have ever received on recognizing and managing physical symptoms in the palliative ca…
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Bacteria and Chronic Infections
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is an impressive interdisciplinary overview of the (patho)biology of chronic bacterial infections that are generally facilitated by beguil…
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Trauma Emergencies and Care
Course reviewed 3 years ago
Trauma care is arguably the most adrenaline-pumping aspect of acute care or EMT practice, and this course faithfully and favorably reflected this real…
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Introduction to Hearing Loss
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this course, and I feel like this should have been how my medical school professors taught the topics included here - completely …
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Queering the Schoolhouse: LGBTQ+ Inclusion for Educators
Course reviewed 3 years ago
As I am to be a conscientious educator eventually and before I die, this course is important for me to get a fundamental grasp of a reality that must …
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Health in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
Course reviewed 3 years ago
The course provides a comprehensive overview of how complex humanitarian emergencies are defined (and, by connection, are formed) and handled at sever…
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Introduction to Translational Science
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an impressive and surprisingly unique course even for someone who has received education on conducting research and has done research on his o…
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Voice Disorders: What Patients and Professionals Need to Know
Course reviewed 3 years ago
Similar to the other otorhinolaryngology courses offered by the institution, this short offering feels like an actual class - and in a good way. The c…
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Data Privacy Fundamentals
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This well-made short course is a must-take for everyone, as the implications of data privacy issues permeate modern life entirely. I highly appreciate…
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Psychosocial and Spiritual Aspects of Palliative Care
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course excellently covered arguably the most difficult dimension of understanding and rendering palliative care - dealing with psychosocial and s…
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Positive Psychology
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This intriguing course is articulate in describing the potential of positive psychology to enhance life, rather than merely restore it or alleviate su…
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Infection Prevention in Nursing Homes
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is such a fun course to take, perhaps the first MOOC that made me giggle at least once. The course creators successfully attempted to add humor o…
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Emergency Care: Pregnancy, Infants, and Children
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent review of practical concepts on emergency obstetric and newborn care, as well as pediatric emergencies and other "niche" concerns…
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The Brain and Space
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an interesting and excellent course on how our nervous system (not just our brain) makes sense of, processes and responds to the external phys…
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Extracellular Vesicles in Health and Disease
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent, intensive and well-curated overview on the state-of-the-art (as of this writing) thinking and findings on extracellular vesicles…
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Spreadsheets for Beginners using Google Sheets
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a succinct practical course on working proficiently in Google Sheets, a program that I think beats offline spreadsheet applications in terms o…
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How to Learn Math: For Students
Course reviewed 3 years ago
Initial note: this course does not offer a certificate upon completion.
I took this course in an attempt to prepare myself psychologicall…
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Strategies for Assisted Living Communities during COVID-19
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I took this course only out of personal interest rather than of necessity, as I am not involved in an assisted living community. Nevertheless, there a…
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Financial Planning for Young Adults
Course reviewed 3 years ago
Basically, I should have taken this course more than a decade earlier. To late teenagers and young adults in their early 20s, please take this extreme…
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Strategies for Senior Housing Communities during COVID-19
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I took this course purely out of interest, as supplement to the course by the same creators on assisted living facilities. Senior housing communities …
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Everyday Chinese Medicine
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is an excellent and concise introduction to the foundational principles of Chinese Medicine geared for laypeople in the field like me. I apprecia…
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The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution
Course reviewed 3 years ago
An essential continuation to "The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World" course, this poignant offering from…
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Population Health During A Pandemic: Contact Tracing and Beyond
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is a comprehensive material of must-knows not just for contact tracers but also for public health practitioners involved in the response t…
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Reducing Gun Violence in America: Evidence for Change
Course reviewed 3 years ago
As someone who has physically never been in the United States, this well-crafted course made me understand the context (and the potential and efforts …
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Greek and Roman Mythology
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I have been casually interested in mythology since childhood, and I took this course to experience how a prestigious institution treats such material.…
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Vital Signs: Understanding What the Body Is Telling Us
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a course that I should have taken even before medical school. Dr. Scanga and her team did an excellent job of simplifying and integrating key …
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AIDS: Fear and Hope
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This material, while quite dated, provides an excellent introduction to HIV-AIDS pandemic from its recognition in the 1980s up to around 2014. The dis…
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Personal & Family Financial Planning
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great introductory overview of financial planning basics for young adults, particularly those in or about to finish college. Thus, this is h…
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Transgender Medicine for General Medical Providers
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I completed this well-made concise overview with a better understanding of the unique primary care needs of the transgender community. Important pearl…
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Introduction to Data Analytics
Course reviewed 3 years ago
As expected, this course, from a leader in the data analytics/science field, provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in data analytics.…
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General Pathophysiology
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is perhaps among a small number of medically oriented Coursera offerings that go beyond a comfortable introduction on a certain topic. I c…
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Framework for Data Collection and Analysis
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course greatly helped me in polishing and/or fine-tuning my understanding on the science and implementation of survey research, especially on top…
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Teach English Now! Theories of Second Language Acquisition
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This well-made offering is such an important course not only for getting TESOL/TEFL certification but for teaching in general. I deeply appreciate the…
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Enjoyable Econometrics
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This audit-only/no-certificate free course, which I expected to be a casual introduction to econometrics principles for laypeople, is not as enjoyable…
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Bats, Ducks, and Pandemics: An Introduction to One Health Policy
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This free/no-certificate/audit-only offering, an overview to One Health, is amazingly well-rounded and covers all fundamental bases. Furthermore, for …
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Cryptocurrency: Beyond Bitcoin Teach-Out
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This audit-only/free course is an excellent introductory material for those who remain uninitiated about the current “buzz” on novel financial technol…
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Grow Your Business with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This audit-only/no-certificate course is an interesting and concise introduction to principles of sound business growth; highly recommended to those w…
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ADHD: Everyday Strategies for Elementary Students
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great concise course on understanding ADHD, its diagnosis and assessment, and useful non-technical strategies to help children, parents and …
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Health Coaching Conversations
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This offering concisely provides foundational knowledge on the dos and don’ts of health coaching. Instead of the typical scenario wherein there is a “…
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Biohacking Your Brain's Health
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a great offering that can be of use to both laypeople and health professionals, the latter group being those, like me, who may need to have a …
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Molecular Foundations of Medicine
Course reviewed 3 years ago
As someone with prior intermediate to advanced knowledge of most topics covered in this audit-only course, the offering gave me an opportunity to revi…
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Stanford's Short Course on Breastfeeding
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This is a succinct and clearly-relayed course that can be of use to expectant/currently-caring families and for health professionals alike (the latter…
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Teaching and Assessing Clinical Skills
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This audit-only/no-certificate course provides insightful guidance on teaching and assessing in the health professions education setting. If you are l…
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DNA Decoded
Course reviewed 3 years ago
I took this course, with medical and graduate school-level understanding of the topics covered, primarily to get ideas on how such complex material ca…
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Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This course is a highly engaging teaser to the bolts and nuts of public policy as well as to the undergraduate/graduate student experience at UVA. Whi…
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Life After COVID-19: Get Ready for our Post-Pandemic Future
Course reviewed 3 years ago
While I have been aware of the Futures Thinking Coursera Specialization of the Institute for the Future (IFTF) for a long while now, I initially dismi…
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Everyday Chinese Medicine 2
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This offering, an essential continuation of the “Everyday Chinese Medicine” course from the same institution, provides an overview of Traditional Chin…
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PrEParing: PrEP for Providers and Patients
Course reviewed 3 years ago
The key takeaway from this exhaustive and well-done offering is that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is not just a drug to prevent getting infected sp…
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Fundamentals for Implementing a Hypertension Program
Course reviewed 3 years ago
My academic medical institution has a long-term partnership with a cluster of rural towns regarding the field/community-based implementation of a nati…
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Managing Supply Chain Disruption During COVID-19
Course reviewed 3 years ago
As someone working in healthcare, I was practically clueless on issues outside the clinical, hospital, and/or the immediate community served by our ef…
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Global Systemic Risk
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This audit-only/no-certificate course could never be more timely than right now, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. The comprehensibility of the …
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What is Genetic Counselling?
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This enjoyable course made me appreciate better, and in a more concrete manner, the art and science of genetic counselling. Concisely, this offering i…
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Preventing Dementia
Course reviewed 3 years ago
This offering is a well-curated course on preventive measures for dementia, an increasingly-important global health concern. Made no less by one of th…
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Understanding Memory: Explaining the Psychology of Memory through Movies
Course reviewed 2 years ago
This insightful course draws from the experience and expertise of its instructor, Professor Emeritus John Seamon, in providing clear and concise expos…
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High Stakes Leadership: Leading in Times of Crisis
Course reviewed 2 years ago
In our world which is ever-increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA), organizations of all forms should anticipate that crises wi…
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Application of Health Equity Research Methods for Practice and Policy
Course reviewed 2 years ago
This is an excellent follow-up to the Foundations of Health Equity Research course by the same instructors and institution. While some of the concepts…
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Creative Problem Solving: Design Thinking in Health and Social Care
Course reviewed 2 years ago
I highly appreciate this introductory/teaser course to design thinking as a problem-solving tool in the healthcare setting. While I have casually hea…
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Physician/Student Opioid Use Disorder Medication Assisted Treatment Waiver Training
Course reviewed 2 years ago
I think that the learning content of this course is excellent: there are knowledge goals that were explicitly being addressed, and the coverage of top…
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Understanding Obesity
Course reviewed 2 years ago
This short but sweet introductory course made me realize the nature of the global obesity problem as a full-on systems problem. Having this characteri…
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Setting the Stage for Success: An Eye on Safety Culture and Teamwork (Patient Safety II)
Course reviewed 2 years ago
This is a great, succinct and easy-to-digest course on the characteristics of, implementation of and evaluation/assessment of safety culture in the co…
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HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Clinical Perspective)
Course reviewed 2 years ago
Content-wise, this course covers all expected bases on understanding health informatics as an active component of healthcare delivery. In multiple ins…
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A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment
Course reviewed 2 years ago
It took me a long while (around two years) to finally complete this enlightening course, as life got in the way. If I am going to summarize, in one se…
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Understanding Dementia
Course reviewed 2 years ago
"Understanding Dementia" is an incredibly heartfelt and well-made course. It admirably takes on a comprehensive biopsychosocial perspective to the rea…
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Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Course reviewed 2 years ago
Made with the same thoroughness and dedication as the Understanding Dementia and Preventing Dementia courses, the Wicking Dementia Centre, University …
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COVID Vaccine Ambassador Training: How to Talk to Parents
Course reviewed 2 years ago
This is a short and sweet course that is useful for everyone. For laypeople, the content will give them easily-digestible information to understand th…
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The Age of Sustainable Development
Course reviewed 2 years ago
I have never expected to describe a completed online course, let alone an audit-only one, as “pivotal,” but here we are. Is it really possible to make…
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Age of Sustainable Development
Course reviewed 2 years ago
I have previously made a review of the audit-only Coursera version of this great course (https://www.classcentral.com/report/review-age-sustainable-de…
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Advanced Practice Provider/Physician Assistant: Opioid Use Disorder Medication Assisted Treatment Waiver Training (24hr)
Course reviewed 2 years ago
All in all, this offerring provides comprehensive didactics on the clinical considerations in dealing with the opioid epidemic. I intend to go back t…
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Urbanisation and Health - Promoting Sustainable Solutions
Course reviewed 2 years ago
This course serves as an insightful overview of the prevailing perspectives, both historical and current, on sustainable urbanization. A ever-increasi…
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HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Administrative/IT Perspective)
Course reviewed 2 years ago
This introductory course overlaps with and complements the HI-FIVE Clinical Perspective offering, also from the same institution, in terms of content…
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Infectious Disease Transmission Models for Decision-Makers
Course reviewed 8 months ago
This material is short and sweet. While it will definitely not make you a full-fledged infectious disease transmission modeller right away, the concis…
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