454 Online Short courses in Health Sciences

This Understanding the Principles of Dementia course at The Sheffield College enables learners to develop knowledge and understanding of caring for individuals with dementia.

This Understanding Nutrition and Health qualification at Cambridge Regional College aims to improve your knowledge of nutrition and health.

This Understanding Dignity and Safeguarding in Adult Health and Social Care course at Cambridge Regional College aims to provide you with a thorough understanding of the importance of dignity and safeguarding, and is valuable to those working in, or looking to work in, the health and social care sector.

This Leading Innovation in Advancing Healthcare Practice module at Robert Gordon University aims to enable practitioners to develop a critical understanding of the theories, principles and concepts required to become a leader within advanced practice.

This Improving the Quality of Healthcare course at Oxford Brookes University will enable healthcare professionals to critically explore the conceptual foundations of quality and governance in the context of their own working environment.

This Health and Wellbeing of Children, Young People and Families module at Robert Gordon University aims to provide you with an understanding and awareness of strategies and interventions to support child and family health and wellbeing.

Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Health Research from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine will provide participants with a basis in the design, analysis and interpretation of systematic reviews of health research. 

This Nutrition, Mediterranean Diet, and Management of Cardiovascular Diseases online course at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) focuses on the prevention of cardiovascular diseases through proper nutrition and the changes that should be made in the diet on the ground of cardiovascular problems and risk factors for them.

Medical billers and coders work in hospitals, clinics, doctors offices and insurance companies preparing bills and reimbursements for medical care. They use industry-established numerical codes to indicate what treatments were received, what the diagnosis was and what level of care was given. The Medical Coder programme is offered at the University of Cincinnati.

The purpose of this Prognostic Research course from Utrecht University is to redress this imbalance. We will therefore discuss the principles and methods of non-experimental prognostic research, together with the practice of prognostic research in a clinical setting. 

Develop skills to design inclusive teaching, learning and assessment activities that enhance student mental health and wellbeing with this Teacher Development - Embedding Mental Health in the Curriculum Microcredential at The Open University by FutureLearn.

Explore the relationship between nutrition and brain health, why it matters, and how to work towards positive food changes with Food and Mood - Improving Mental Health Through Diet and Nutrition at Deakin University by FutureLearn.

This Essentials in Clinical Simulations Across the Health Professions offered by Coursera in partnership with The George Washington University provides you with key strategies to help understand the foundation of Clinical Simulations.  

If you are simply interested in properly understanding the published literature or if you are embarking on conducting your own research, this Understanding Clinical Research - Behind the Statistics course offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Cape Town is your first step.

In this Evaluating the Quality of Healthcare Delivery course offered by Coursera in partnership with Northeastern University, you will have the opportunity to learn about the great progress that has been made in measuring and evaluating quality of care.  We will discuss key concepts and methods. 

Many older adults will need care in the near future. Parents, grandparents, and other relatives might already be in need of some help. This Care for Older Adults course from International Open Academy written by a registered nurse with over 40 years' experience, will teach you what you need to know!

This highly practical Personal Fitness course from Warnborough College helps you to understand what fitness really is, and enables you to develop a balanced fitness program for yourself or for people around you covering topics such as the human body, principles of exercise programming, and weight control.

In this online Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis of Prognosis Research course at Utrecht University for researchers we discuss and practice how to define your review questions, how to search the literature, how to critically assess the methodological quality of primary prognosis studies, and which statistical methods to use for their synthesis. 

This Physical Fitness course from Warnborough College is jam packed with information, as well as suggested learning experiences beyond simply reading the notes and studying the many illustrations. 

Learn about anxiety and discover helpful strategies to support young people struggling with anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic Anxiety in Children and Young People during COVID-19 at University of East Anglia delivered through FutureLearn.