About the Course
Cancer chemotherapy is a constantly evolving field. All salutes to those great scientists who have been tirelessly working to invent better drugs that could combat the dreadly disease called cancer.
This is a short course on chemotherapy used for cancer. Principles behind the action of these groups of drugs revolve around differentially targeting the cancer cells while simultaneously protecting the healthy cells in the vicinity of cancer cells. In this course, these principles and explored in great depth. Different groups of anti-cancer drugs, their utility in different types of cancers, concept of combination therapy and drug resistance are taught.
Target Audience
Medical students – Allopathy, Dental.
Alternative Medicine students – Homeopathy, Ayurveda.
Para/Allied medical students – Nursing, Physiotherapy, BSc Pharmacology.
Post graduate students – Oncology, General medicine, Family medicine, MD/MSc/PhD Pharmacology.
Course Delivery Format
This course is delivered entirely online. It consists of a series of comprehensive lectures by a professor in the subject, appropriately annotated with slides, animations and wherever necessary, interactive content. The delivery offers tremendous flexibility. You may pause a teacher while you refer to your textbooks (not includes) and to take notes. You may also rewind a segment to listen to the teacher again or you may skip a slide or two if you already know that bit. You may bookmark a segment that you wish to return to later, maybe to refresh just before your exams. While the lessons in this course may be arranged in a particular order based on our curriculum, you have the flexibility to take them in order of your preference based on your personalized learning needs.
Benefits
While this course is to help you learn the subject from an online faculty, it may help you in several ways even if you are already enrolled in some medical, dental or paramedical school. Many of our students felt that the format in which this course is delivered has helped them to cope up against the fast-paced lectures in actual class – it’s like having a TV remote in class to self-pace your teacher. Animations help understand concepts better by making concepts easy to understand… and difficult to forget.
Nikita Gupta
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Kadapa