Digital Publishing collaborates
Publishing is inherently collaborative. Here are some examples of our partners: Faculty Faculty are our authors, and we combine forces to create interactive, interlinked learning materials that are consistent in format and function, in an effort to reduce students’ cognitive load. This digital publishing option also reduces cognitive load for faculty—they don’t have to know […]
Calculating and Interpreting Statistics for the Health Sciences
Learning Goals Demonstrate respectful, constructive, adaptive interactions with peers and/or facilitators, including punctual attendance, advanced preparation, professionalism, and giving and receiving feedback Interpret and calculate statistical tests that are used in the health sciences In the large-group session, you learned about a few basic statistical methods used in the health sciences. In this small group […]
Statistics for the Health Sciences II
Learning Goals Describe some of the basic statistical tests used in health care and explain how to interpret them Calculate and interpret relative risk and odds ratios using multiple examples Watch this Osmosis video: Relative and absolute risk The experimental event rate (EER) is the rate that an event occurs in the experimental group. Control […]
Introduction to vaccines
Learning goals Compare and contrast the types of vaccines—live, killed/inactivated, polysaccharide, protein, mRNA—in terms of composition and how each type is generated Describe the contraindications and precautions for the different types of vaccines (live, killed/inactivated, polysaccharide, protein, mRNA) Compare and contrast how the immune system generates a productive antibody response to protein antigens versus carbohydrate […]
Other therapies
Albendazole (Albenza) Class(es) Anthelmintic Clinical use(s) FDA approved: echinococcosis, neurocysticercosis. Off-label/clinical use: Ascariasis, capillaria, clonorchiasis, giardiasis, microsporidia (HIV), hymenolepis nana infection, loa loa, trichuriasis. Mechanism(s) of action Causes parasitic death by binding to colchicine-sensitive site of beta tubulin inhibiting their polymerization into microtubules. Key adverse effects Abdominal pain, headache, abnormal liver function tests, N/V, SJS. […]
Tuberculosis
This is the LP for this topic. Include Antituberculars on this page. This URL may need to change. Public Health may want to link to this page.
Micro-ID sorted by systems
rename this page eventually Could link to these from Learning site system LPs put link to this page on the compendium LP and possibly the thread LP Pages to start from: Disease location page is almost system based Overview of parasites is almost system based Outline of parasite diseases and organism according to site/specimen is […]
Health Equity
Welcome to the Digestive System block, your third system of second year! The digestive system is one of the most integrated systems in the human body: As it transforms food into fuel, it quite literally supports every system in the body. As you begin this journey, you’ll explore the digestive tract from top to bottom—pun […]
Other antibiotics
Clindamycin (Cleocin) Class(es) Lincosamide Clinical use(s) FDA approved: Bacterial disease (severe) Including susceptible infections due to anaerobic and aerobic gram positive organisms. Off-label/clinical use: Acne vulgaris (topical). Mechanism(s) of action Inhibits protein synthesis at the level of the 50S ribosomal subunit. Key adverse effects The most common reported AE is mild to moderate morbilliform-like skin […]
Cephalosporins
Cephalexin (Keflex) Class(es) 1st-generation cephalosporin Clinical use(s) FDA approved: Skin and soft tissue infection, osteomyelitis. Off-label/clinical use: Prophylaxis for bacterial endocarditis. Mechanism(s) of action Binds to penicillin binding proteins in cell wall membrane. Key adverse effects C. diff–associated diarrhea (CDAD), seizures (high doses especially in renal impairment) Key drug/food interactions Concurrent use of loop diuretics […]