Скачать или смотреть Ep. 1 - Medicine Basics: Is this educational series for you?

Slides: http://bit.ly/dp88_medbas_ep1

The title of the series is “Medicine Basics”, it is very important that we make it very clear what we mean by Medicine. Medicine has several definitions, different between each other, all can be used. In this course Medicine refers to “the science and art of dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation or cure of disease”. This definition is taken from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. We choose this definition as it is the one I consider the most noble of them all.
Given the definition can be chosen arbitrarily it is correct to say that the chosen definition is influenced by the actual Agenda.
Pharmaceutical companies talk about medicine as the treatment of disease, this is because it is in their natural interest to support medicine developing treatments.
Now, Medicine is both a science and an art I quickly want to define the two terms as per the same Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Science is the state of knowing. We know knowledge is constantly evolving, models are constantly being validated, invalidated, corrected and so on. We must be aware that Science is therefore not “necessarily exact” or even correct.
Art on the other hand is defined as a skill an occupation, we can say it is practical.
Since medicine is both a science and an art we can say medicine is per definition not necessarily exact and is practical. This is an important concept at the base of this course.
You should also realize the definition we choose here does not represent medicine you notice been practiced today, this comment is based on my observations of today’s reality, “maintenance of health” and “cure of disease” is not something commonly practiced.

The ultimate goal of this course on “medicine basics” is twofold, just as you can read on the slide:
a) Transferring the basic knowledge about medicine, this will empower you to start shifting from disease towards wellness, improve or maintain wellness, and also become a healthcare leader within your family and/or community
b) Prepare you for the more advanced series

There are no prerequisites to this series really. If there are points you do not understand I recommend you look them up on wikipedia.org which in my experience should be enough to fill any gaps for this particular course
It is advantageous if you have college education, which will give you enough training in natural science science and give you the thinking patterns, logic to follow this course. An open minded will make the learning process easier.

As a final note a few learning tips I d like to recommend from my personal experience. This does not mean they will necessarily work for you, I recommend you try them and see if you can profit.
a) Limit the amount of new information learned in a day. For this I would recommend you limit the number of new lessons to one or two a day.
b) I recommend you repeat what you have learned as soon as possible, this should help comprehension and memorization of the new material. For this I recommend repeating a new lessons the next day, as well as to try and explain what you have learnt to someone willing to lend you an ear.