You probably knew that Stanford University is known is an academic powerhouse ranking as one of the world’s top universities. But did you know there is a way to get Stanford on your CV? Without having to step through its doors?
Well good news… a wide range of FREE online courses [1] from Stanford University are available to take on edX. Here is a short list of this months courses that we thought might be of interest to Dementia Researchers.
- Introduction to Healthcare Communication Strategies [2] – Explore the foundations of effective health communication, including active listening and improvisation. Learn the skills required to build strong and trusting relationships from leading Stanford Medicine faculty.
- Leadership and Resilience in Healthcare Risk Management [3] – Learn how effective leadership positively influences the crisis management process, and how you, as a leader, can implement resiliency techniques for your organization in this course from the Stanford Center for Health Education.
- Mining Massive Datasets [4] – The course is based on the text Mining of Massive Datasets by Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeff Ullman, who by coincidence are also the instructors for the course.
- Visual Media for Effective Healthcare Communication [5] – Enhance your ability to connect with an audience using visual presentation. Gain tools and strategies to communicate more effectively via the media, with guidance from leading Stanford Medicine faculty.
- Healthcare Ecosystems and Communication [6] – Throughout this course from the Stanford Center for Health Education (SCHE), you’ll explore where information comes from, how it spreads, and why misinformation can travel faster and farther than the truth. You’ll also investigate the challenge of conducting difficult conversations and develop your ability to navigate them more effectively.
- Designing Your Career [7] – Welcome to the Designing Your Career module. Whether you’re exploring what you might want to do next or you’ve already identified a role or organization that you would like to be a part of, this short module is structured to help you take practical steps toward designing your career.
- Communicating with Presence [8] – Enhance patient care with the Stanford Presence 5 model—a proven framework for humanism and effective communication in medicine. This online CME/CE course equips healthcare professionals with practical strategies to build trust, improve patient outcomes, and strengthen clinician-patient connections. Enroll today to transform your approach to patient interactions!
- Introduction to Population Health [9] – This course offers an overview to population health, determinants of health, and the built environment using a socio-ecological model. We outline major payors in the US healthcare system and offer practical tips to address disparities in health outcomes across populations.
Looking for something more substantial? Check our our Higher Education Courses Directory [10].