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Tsinghua University

Gateway to Medicine: An Introduction to the Field of Medicine

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Overview

Welcome to our course of Gateway to Medicine: An Introduction to the Field of Medicine

Rooted in the area of religions, medical science has always been mysterious from its birth. At the meanwhile, its exploration never stops. With the eager longing for health and longevity, human beings have been using all their wisdom and technical achievements in the area of medicine.

Clicking into the course of Gateway to Medicine, you will be led to a whole new world: from the relationship between the macro-environment and health to the micro-molecular principle of diseases. Regardless of medical background students or just interested undergraduates, you will experience something interested with us. Both researchers and experts are here. With their unique and experienced views, the comprehensive scrolls of struggling with diseases are exposed.

For this course, the teacher will speak Chinese in the teaching video, but we will provide all transcripts and most of the other course materials both in English and Chinese, just like this welcome information. As for evaluations, quizzes after each lecture account for 100% of course grades.

Syllabus

  • CH01 Smog and Lung Diseases
    • 01-The basic condition of the air
    • 02-What is smog and its influence to the body
    • 03-The structure and the function of human respiratory system
    • 04-How the smog cause the human respiratory system disease
    • 05-Asthma
    • Tips 01
    • 06-COPD
    • Tips 02
    • 07-Lung cancer â… 
    • 08-Lung cancer â…¡
    • Tips 03
  • CH02 Pregnancy and Delivery
    • 01 Dissection of genital organs
    • 02 The formation of embryo and fetal appendage
    • 03 Characteristic of embryonic and fetal development
    • 04 Maternal changes during pregnancy
    • 05 Four factors that affect childbirth
    • 06 Mechanism of labor
  • CH03 Children’s nutrition requirement and infant feeding
    • 01 The energy requirement and the metabolic characteristics of kids
    • 02 Need of the nutrition and metabolism of kids â… 
    • 03 Need of the nutrition and metabolism of kids â…¡
    • 04 Guided feeding of infant â… 
    • 05 Guided feeding of infant â…¡
    • 06 Guided feeding of infant â…¢
  • CH04 Get to know about tumor
    • 01 Introduction
    • 02 What is tumor
    • 03 The general shape of tumor
    • 04 The atypia of the tumor
    • 05 Name and classification of the tumor
    • 06 The growing type of the tumor
    • 07 Spread of tumor
    • 08 The grading and staging of tumors and the effects to the body
    • 09 The difference between benign and malignant tumors
    • 10 The environmental causes of cancer
    • 11 Heredity and tumor
    • Tips 01
    • Tips 02
    • Tips 03
    • Tips 04
  • CH05 Emergency (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and Disaster Medicine
    • 01 Overview
    • 02 Sudden cardiac arrest
    • 03 Non-professional life support
    • 04 Professional life support
    • 05 Adult advanced life support â… 
    • 06 Adult advanced life support â…¡
    • 07 Electric defibrillation
  • CH06 Cardiovascular disease (Atherosclerosis and hypertension)
    • 01 Introduction
    • 02 Risk factors and pathogenesis of atherosclerosis
    • 03 Pathological changes of atherosclerosis
    • Tips 01
    • 04 Atherosclerosis of vital organs
    • 05 Coronary atherosclerotic heart disease
    • Tips 02
    • Tips 03
    • 06 Primary hypertension
    • Tips 04
    • 07 The etiology and pathogenesis of hypertension
    • 08 The types and pathologic changes of essential hypertension
    • Tips 05
  • CH07 The war that never ends——Human versus virus
    • 01 Overview â… 
    • 02 Overview â…¡
    • 03 What is virus
    • 04 The structure and functions of influenza viruses
    • 05 Different type of influenza viruses
    • 06 Bird flu
    • 07 Street virus
  • CH08 The germs that gastric acid can't kill——Helicobacter pylori and Gastric diseases
    • 01 Introduction
    • 02 Chronic gastritis caused by helicobacter pylori infection
    • 03 Helicobacter pylori causes peptic ulcer
    • 04 Pathological changes of peptic ulcer
    • 05 Gastric cancer
    • Tips 01
    • Tips 02
    • Tips 03
  • CH09 The movement and injury of human body——The motor function of human body
    • 01 The evolution of biological motion
    • 02 Biomechanics of human motion
    • 03 The perfect unity of function and structure
    • 04 A brief history of trauma orthopedic development â… 
    • 05 A brief history of trauma orthopedic development â…¡
    • 06 Sprain and fracture of the ankle joint
    • 07 Ankle sprain
    • 08 Prevention of ankle sprain
  • Final Exam

    Taught by

    Ying Qiu, Bogen Song, Shuang Chao, Fei Wang, Zhenyu Huang, Zhe Zhao, and Fangli Ren

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