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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Introductory Human Physiology by Duke University

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About the Course

Explore the fascinating world of human physiology and learn about the body's organ systems, their functions, and how they maintain health. In this comprehensive course, you will: - Master key concepts in human physiology and homeostasis - Delve into the nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, and urinary systems - Examine the role of senses, muscles, gastrointestinal, and reproductive systems - Apply knowledge to real-life situations and medical conditions This course is perfect for students, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in human physiology and biology, building upon a basic understanding of human anatomy. This course is an excellent resource for MCAT preparation or as a refresher for health professionals. As a bonus, enhance your learning with a unique immersive virtual reality (VR) experience, accessible on both VR and desktop platforms, that takes you on an incredible journey inside the human body. This course offers a captivating way to explore and understand complex physiological concepts, as you virtually shrink to navigate through blood vessels and then return to normal size to measure blood pressure. The course comes to life as an educational adventure....

Top reviews

LL

Jun 1, 2016

I'm a high school student interested in human physiology.

This course is AMAZING! Though sometimes I felt overwhelmed and couldn't remember everything, I think it was worth every effort and energy.

JD

Jan 3, 2021

Best course I've ever taken! Detailed and thorough explanations of the systems of the body. Fascinating, enlightening, and enjoyable. Highly recommend for anyone interested in how the body functions.

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By Ranakishore P

May 13, 2020

good

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Apr 17, 2020

Good

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May 14, 2018

Good

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Mar 16, 2018

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By jorge a

Nov 5, 2015

good

By MD M A

Sep 20, 2020

Yes

By Anna Y

Feb 14, 2017

非常好

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Jul 6, 2022

OK

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By RegulusCentauri

Nov 27, 2016

Overall the course was very helpful and I was able to understand it without prior knowledge (except for my high school biology class). All the case studies examples often helped to understand the problem further and I appreciated all of the graphic content that was crucial for imagining the ways the systems work. I finally understood some of those things, that are just sort of "known" as for example why contraceptives might be bad for women, or how could drinking too much water actually kill someone.

I was a little bit disappointed with all the gramatical mistakes in presentations and many mistakes in english subtitles that were provided (in names of organ parts/hormones etc.) ow switching the names of certain hormones/parts in spoken language, which often made it harder to understand or connect something. Furthermore some of the quiz/test questions were more like "just guess it" or up to the student to research the problem further, which is fine but it kinda disrupts the quizzing process.

Many thanks to both great teachers that have put this course together, it's definitely worth enrolling in!

By Philip K L A

Oct 23, 2022

The course is fun to learn. It takes you into a dive into a new world that is vastly complex and fascinatingly diverse. It takes you more in depth what occurs within the human body, with some introductions into the human reproductive and urinary systems. This course showed me that I only touched the tip of the iceberg with biology and that the medicial world and field is teeming with so much knowledge focusing on different parts of the human being. All of this is amazing (and it really is), but it will be challanging for some to time manage both their school work with this new addition of Coursera. Time management will be one of the key things you will learn as you move through, and (because this is a college course) it will be difficult. Nontheless, this is an experience that you can't miss, and it provides you with more doors to your understanding in medicine and science.

By Jia X

Jun 28, 2020

Some lessons might be a bit confusing sometimes. I feel that some parts may not be very well-organised, especially the expression can be a little convoluted/wordy so I find it hard to grasp the crux of the sentences or what the lecturers were trying to explain sometimes. If possible, it would be even better for some parts of the lessons to be more succinct. Anyhow, I think the lecturers have done a good enough job which I truly appreciate.

However, I gained a lot of knowledge from the lecturers most of the time. As compared to learning alone from the textbook, it makes the chapters more interesting when learning from someone. Also, it is very helpful to be able to refer to the questions that other students have asked in the discussion forum, both the lecturers are vey responsive and helpful in clarifying the doubts.

By Jonas W

Jul 26, 2023

It's a good course and for the part that could be better (since I don't give 5/5) it's a bit hard to be specific since It's not one big thing, It's many small things, some very small, like questions after each section that could be more clearly written. I've studied physiology (one simple book and some videocourses) before but I still found many new things here, and I really appreciated the parts that were new to me, when you went deeper into some areas. Good Introduction course. I think I'll come back and retake some parts and see if I can't get 100% as i should.

By PROF D P K R

Jun 1, 2020

Video sessions could be truncated a little. Respiratory system would be an ideal example in this regard. Use of models and charts to reduce theory material on slide and could convey ideas much faster. Attempt to include latest updated knowledge comes with the slight disadvantage of extra long video sessions, moderate to difficult question sets, which I feel should be simplified a little for non medical students to attempt the same. Organs functions could include virtual reality videos for clarity and future technological advances in this field

By Piyush G

Jan 12, 2021

Quite a good course however, for someone with no formal background in biology or physiology, it can get a bit difficult to follow sometimes, however, I understand how tough it can be to compress basic physiology in a medium sized course. One thing that stood out was Dr Jakoi's participation in the discussion forums. Never before I have seen any full time professor answering questions in a discussion forum of an online course continuously. I salute her zeal for teaching. Teachers like her are very rare,