Learning modules

Structure and story of the heart, layer by layer.

Where the heart shows up in the clinic, and what goes wrong.

Walk the heart structure by structure, then cut inward layer by layer.

Turn the cards on the heart — structures, layers, key facts — and grade yourself.

A multiple-choice round on the heart, reshuffled every time.

Click the named structures directly on the live 3D heart.

Trace blood through the heart in the order it actually flows.

Pair each structure in the heart with its role.

Pair each layer of the heart, outside in, with what it does.

Structure and story of the brain, layer by layer.

Where the brain shows up in the clinic, and what goes wrong.

Walk the brain structure by structure, then cut inward layer by layer.

Turn the cards on the brain — structures, layers, key facts — and grade yourself.

A multiple-choice round on the brain, reshuffled every time.

Common claims about the brain, put to the test.

Click the named structures directly on the live 3D brain.

Trace blood through the brain in the order it actually flows.

Pair each structure in the brain with its role.

Pair each layer of the brain, outside in, with what it does.

Structure and story of the lungs, layer by layer.

Where the lungs shows up in the clinic, and what goes wrong.

Walk the lungs structure by structure, then cut inward layer by layer.

Turn the cards on the lungs — structures, layers, key facts — and grade yourself.

A multiple-choice round on the lungs, reshuffled every time.

Click the named structures directly on the live 3D lungs.

Pair each structure in the lungs with its role.

Pair each layer of the lungs, outside in, with what it does.

Structure and story of the liver, layer by layer.

Where the liver shows up in the clinic, and what goes wrong.

Walk the liver structure by structure, then cut inward layer by layer.

Turn the cards on the liver — structures, layers, key facts — and grade yourself.

A multiple-choice round on the liver, reshuffled every time.

Click the named structures directly on the live 3D liver.

Trace blood through the liver in the order it actually flows.

Pair each structure in the liver with its role.

Pair each layer of the liver, outside in, with what it does.

Structure and story of the kidneys, layer by layer.

Where the kidneys shows up in the clinic, and what goes wrong.

Walk the kidneys structure by structure, then cut inward layer by layer.

Turn the cards on the kidneys — structures, layers, key facts — and grade yourself.

A multiple-choice round on the kidneys, reshuffled every time.

Click the named structures directly on the live 3D kidneys.

Pair each structure in the kidneys with its role.

Pair each layer of the kidneys, outside in, with what it does.

Structure and story of the eye, layer by layer.

Where the eye shows up in the clinic, and what goes wrong.

Walk the eye structure by structure, then cut inward layer by layer.

Turn the cards on the eye — structures, layers, key facts — and grade yourself.

A multiple-choice round on the eye, reshuffled every time.

Click the named structures directly on the live 3D eye.

Pair each structure in the eye with its role.

Pair each layer of the eye, outside in, with what it does.

Structure and story of the intestine, layer by layer.

Where the intestine shows up in the clinic, and what goes wrong.

Walk the intestine structure by structure, then cut inward layer by layer.

Turn the cards on the intestine — structures, layers, key facts — and grade yourself.

A multiple-choice round on the intestine, reshuffled every time.

Common claims about the intestine, put to the test.

Click the named structures directly on the live 3D intestine.

Trace blood through the intestine in the order it actually flows.

Pair each structure in the intestine with its role.

Pair each layer of the intestine, outside in, with what it does.

Structure and story of the pancreas, layer by layer.

Where the pancreas shows up in the clinic, and what goes wrong.

Walk the pancreas structure by structure, then cut inward layer by layer.

Turn the cards on the pancreas — structures, layers, key facts — and grade yourself.

A multiple-choice round on the pancreas, reshuffled every time.

Click the named structures directly on the live 3D pancreas.

Pair each structure in the pancreas with its role.

Pair each layer of the pancreas, outside in, with what it does.

Structure and story of the skin, layer by layer.

Where the skin shows up in the clinic, and what goes wrong.

Walk the skin structure by structure, then cut inward layer by layer.

Turn the cards on the skin — structures, layers, key facts — and grade yourself.

A multiple-choice round on the skin, reshuffled every time.

Click the named structures directly on the live 3D skin.

Pair each structure in the skin with its role.

Pair each layer of the skin, outside in, with what it does.

Structure and story of the skeleton, layer by layer.

Where the skeleton shows up in the clinic, and what goes wrong.

Walk the skeleton structure by structure, then cut inward layer by layer.

Turn the cards on the skeleton — structures, layers, key facts — and grade yourself.

A multiple-choice round on the skeleton, reshuffled every time.

Click the named structures directly on the live 3D skeleton.

Pair each structure in the skeleton with its role.

Pair each layer of the skeleton, outside in, with what it does.

Structure and story of the muscles, layer by layer.

Where the muscles shows up in the clinic, and what goes wrong.

Walk the muscles structure by structure, then cut inward layer by layer.

Turn the cards on the muscles — structures, layers, key facts — and grade yourself.

A multiple-choice round on the muscles, reshuffled every time.

Click the named structures directly on the live 3D muscles.

Pair each structure in the muscles with its role.

Pair each layer of the muscles, outside in, with what it does.

A quiz pulling from every organ in the cardiovascular system.

A quiz pulling from every organ in the nervous system.

A quiz pulling from every organ in the respiratory system.

A quiz pulling from every organ in the digestive system.

A quiz pulling from every organ in the urinary system.

A quiz pulling from every organ in the sensory system.

A quiz pulling from every organ in the endocrine system.

A quiz pulling from every organ in the integumentary system.

A quiz pulling from every organ in the musculoskeletal system.

The reference posture every description in the course silently assumes, and the three planes cut through it.

Superior and inferior, medial and lateral, proximal and distal — the vocabulary the rest of the course is written in.

Flexion, abduction, rotation and the special movements that do not fit the three-plane scheme.

How the body is compartmented, what lines each compartment, and the surface landmarks used to find them.

The whole of general anatomy as a deck: prompt on the front, answer on the back.

Position, planes and directional terms, asked the way an oral examiner would.

Special movements, serous membranes and how a slice is actually read.

Pair each term with the direction it names.

Pair each joint movement with what it actually does.

Why the membrane holds together at all, and the four ways a molecule can get through it.

Follow one protein from its gene to the outside of the cell, and meet each organelle where it does its work.

What gives a cell its shape, what holds it to its neighbours, and what happens clinically when either fails.

How a cell copies itself, what stops it doing so at the wrong moment, and how it dies on purpose.

The whole of cell biology as a deck: prompt on the front, answer on the back.

Transport, the secretory pathway and what each organelle actually does.

Junctions, checkpoints, apoptosis and receptor mechanisms.

Rebuild the secretory pathway and the phases of mitosis in the order they happen.

Pair each organelle with the job it does.

From the meeting of two gametes to a blastocyst arriving in the uterus, day by day.

The second week: burrowing into the endometrium, splitting into two layers, and building a placenta.

The third week: two layers become three, the notochord appears, and the nervous system is laid down.

How a flat disc becomes a cylinder with a gut inside it, and why weeks 3 to 8 are the dangerous ones.

The whole of embryology as a deck: prompt on the front, answer on the back.

Fertilisation, implantation and gastrulation, asked on the details that get marked.

Annexes, neural crest, critical periods and the origin of malformations.

Rebuild the sequence from fertilisation to implantation.

Pair each structure with the germ layer it comes from.

The single idea the whole of physiology is built on, and the two shapes a control loop can take.

How a cell holds a voltage, how it inverts it in a millisecond, and how it passes the message on.

One heartbeat in five phases, what sets cardiac output, and how the lung loads oxygen and unloads CO₂.

How the kidney sets the volume and composition of the internal environment, and how hormones are commanded.

The whole of physiology as a deck: prompt on the front, answer on the back.

Feedback, membrane potential, the cardiac cycle and gas exchange.

Frank–Starling, refractory periods, filtration rate and hormone action.

Rebuild the action potential and the cardiac cycle phase by phase.

Pair each hormone with what it actually does.

How a diploid stem cell becomes a haploid gamete — and why the male and female versions differ on almost every count.

Twenty-eight days seen twice over: once in the ovary, once in the endometrium, with the hormones that link them.

One axis, two feedbacks, and the reversal that produces ovulation.

From the meeting of the gametes to the hormones of pregnancy, and how contraception interrupts the chain.

The whole of reproduction as a deck: prompt on the front, answer on the back.

Gametogenesis, the ovarian and uterine cycles, and the hormones that link them.

Feedback reversal, inhibin, hCG and how contraception actually works.

Rebuild the ovarian cycle and spermatogenesis step by step.

Pair each hormone with its origin and its effect.

Two divisions, one replication — and the two mechanisms that make every gamete unique.

The vocabulary that makes a genetics problem solvable, and the two crosses every exam is built on.

How to prove a mode of transmission from a family tree, and the arguments that actually count.

What changes in the DNA, what changes in the karyotype, and the difference in consequences.

The whole of genetics as a deck: prompt on the front, answer on the back.

Shuffling, gametes, dominance and the classical crosses.

Pedigrees, sex linkage, chromosomal anomalies and types of mutation.

Rebuild the phases of meiosis and the path from gene to protein.

Pair each term with its exact definition.

What the immune system reads before it decides to attack, and why a graft is rejected.

The first line — immediate, identical every time, and the same for every intruder.

B lymphocytes, plasma cells and antibodies — how the body neutralises what circulates in its fluids.

How the body deals with what hides inside its own cells, and why CD4 T cells command the whole system.

Why the second encounter is different, how a vaccine exploits it, and what happens when the system breaks.

The whole of immunology as a deck: prompt on the front, answer on the back.

Self and non-self, inflammation, antibodies and the two arms of adaptive immunity.

MHC classes, interleukin-2, vaccination versus serotherapy, and HIV.

Rebuild the inflammatory reaction and the humoral response step by step.

Pair each cell or molecule with the job it does.