Essentials of Medicine

The UTA Essentials of Medicine course is a comprehensive, intensive overview of all of medicine presented over 45 hours and designed for aspiring clinicians or clinicians-in-training as well as healthcare professionals not otherwise clinically trained who wish to quickly gain a powerful overview of medicine in general. The course covers the basic, preclinical and clinical sciences, emphasizing the main principles and logic of medicine, how doctors think, and how the healthcare system works. After passing the Certification Exams, you will earn a UTA-accredited certificate. Thank you again for your interest in learning medicine and hope you enjoy the course!

This course is divided into six modules: Overture, Four Acts and Coda. The Overture and Coda represent the opening and closing of the course with the main content being in each of the Four Acts as follows:

Each Act, along with the Overture and Coda, includes its own summary & objectives with the content organized over a total of 30 Scenes, each, in turn, with their own summary & objectives. Each Scene has between 1 and 12 SubScenes, again, with their own summary & objectives but also including the presentation (clickable PDF), video lecture, quiz, and references. Finally, within each SubScene, are the individual Topics, one for each slide, numbering 1,672 in total. In addition to the SubScenes described above, each Act also has its own opening (Overture) and closing (Coda).

The schematic on the left illustrates this systematic organization.

You can access the course modules by the links above or by clicking the Modules link from the left-side course menu. Once inside a module, you may select individual scenes or move through the module content by clicking on Progress Buttons or the Next and Previous buttons at the bottom of the page. More details on navigating the course can be found in the Navigation videos here.

Finally, at the end of each of the four Acts there is a Graded Certification Exam which a passing grade of > 80% is required to earn the Certificate, attesting to successful completion of the UTA Essentials of Medicine course!