About the Course
Did you know that every 33 seconds someone in the United States dies from heart disease? Cardiovascular diseases have become a global epidemic not only causing deaths on a massive scale but also accounting for trillions of dollars of healthcare expenditure.
It is important for a clinician to have sound knowledge of the pathology of various diseases of heart and blood vessels in order to formulate the preventive and treatment strategies. We have created a course on cardiovascular pathology that perfectly serves this purpose.
We have made this course into two parts. While the first part deals with the structure and form of the heart issue and the natural history of diseases affecting the heart, the second part deals with diseases affecting blood vessels. Pathological processes of ischemic heart disease, hypertension, rheumatic heart disease, atherosclerosis, and vasculitis along with their gross and microscopic features are discussed in detail in this course.
Target Audience
Medical students – Allopathy, Dental.
Alternative Medicine students – Homeopathy, Ayurveda.
Para/Allied medical students – Nursing, Physiotherapy.
Postgraduate students – Cardiology, General medicine, Family medicine, MD/MSc/PhD Pathology.
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.
Dr. Nandeesh BN
Deepan Mirza
Andhra Govt Medical College