Foreign Perspectives

One of the advantages of the Open University is that you can do any of the level one courses without any prior knowledge. Surprisingly perhaps there are a whole heap of essentially medical courses within that level one range.

For instance if you’ve a bit of a family history of heart trouble you might consider doing Understanding cardiovascular diseases which covers everything from the treatment of those who’ve had a heart attack, how to go about avoiding one through to the medical aspects of it. To be honest it’s one course that I reckon just about everyone should do: knowing how to avoid getting a heart attack has to be knowledge worth having. If you really get the finger out, you can start that in November.

In a similar vein, there’s Diabetes care which with the drastic rise of type 2 diabetes seems something that a lot of people should know about too (the next course is in May). Alongside these are the cancer, nutrition and obesity courses and there’s also the likes of Infectious Disease if you work up to that through level two courses.

If you get really get carried away with it (which would be easy to do: they’re very interesting courses) you can even pick up a Life Sciences degree.