About the course
In this course on The Heart, Blood, and Lungs, you will learn about the wonderful diversity of the cardiovascular, immune, and respiratory systems and the medical language that is used to describe these systems. Throughout each Lesson, the roots of terms are explained to help students understand how medical terminology works in healthcare and to increase their knowledge and understanding of the material discussed. This course will provide you with a better understanding and working knowledge of
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (no upvotes, 3.0★).
“There is much that can be improved with this course. There are medical factual errors in the lectures, such as missing causes of diseases and differences between lectures and what is considered the correct answer to exams/tests. Still a great basic course to take.”
Coursera's 4.7 comes from 26 ratings. Of those, 3.8% are 1–2★.
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