About the Course
Anaemia is the most common disorder of blood in the world affecting 524 million women globally. It is defined as a lowered oxygen carrying capacity of blood, either due to decrease in the number of RBCs or the amount of hemoglobin.
Hemoglobin by virtue of being an oxygen carrying metalloprotein, assumes considerable significance. Hemoglobin carries out this essential physiological process of delivering oxygen to various tissues in the body, by means of a cooperative interaction among its subunits.
A sound knowledge about hemoglobin would help the clinician in arriving at a better diagnosis for a better management of blood disorders. In this course designed to study the biochemistry of heme and porphyrins, we will first study the structure of hemoglobin and have a look at the mechanism by which it carries and exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide gases. You will also learn about the biosynthesis and metabolism of hemoglobin along with the clinical outcomes during occurrences of its aberrant metabolism.
Target Audience
Medical students – Allopathy, Dental.
Alternative Medicine students – Homeopathy, Ayurveda.
Para/Allied medical students – Nursing, Physiotherapy, BSc Biochemistry.
Post graduate students – General medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Hematology, MD/MSc/PhD Biochemistry.
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.
Anil Bhatnagar
Gandhi Medical College