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Through a massive online MOOC course, it will explain how to use antibiotics, their functions and what they are for.
In a massive open online course (MOOC) Antibiotics: when, how and for what?where a group of scientists and popularizers of science join forces to explain what are antibiotics, what has been their usefulness and how their abuse harmsto the degree of promoting a “silent pandemic”.
“In this course you will learn the reasons why the improper use of antibiotics is harmful to your health and why this behavior has given rise to the public health phenomenon called bacterial resistance,” says the presentation.
The course will be guided by specialists in the area of health and with the most recent scientific evidence, in this it is explained how antibiotics work, why it is necessary for health professionals to prescribe their use and how to prevent diseases that require the use of antibiotics. It will also have didactic material headed by the Faculty of Medicine (FM), the Coordination of the Open University, Educational Innovation and Distance Education (CUAIEED) and the General Directorate for the Dissemination of Science (DGDC) of UNAM.
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Jairo Antonio Melo Flórez from CUAIEED will act as the moderator of the event together with Augusto Domínguez Pérez-Tejada, director of the DGDC, who I consider to be a relevant and fun course that addresses a fascinating topic, where attendees will learn. He stressed that, from the title, it evokes something that has happened to all of us and confronts this legend that antibiotics cure everything. “The course is going to clarify a lot of things for us about this,” he said.
Guadalupe Miranda Novales, from the FM, indicated that the course is dedicated to educationnot only of health professionals, but of the general public “There is a large amount of material for professionals to develop within their fields and with this the prescription is improved,” he added.
In the same way, he maintained that there are also examples of situations that we have all experienced, such as when we eat something that we do not like. “All of these really common situations have a consequence, a collateral damage that we’re not seeing directly,” he noted.
The course is divided into four weeks and five hours and can be consulted on the site: https://www.coursera.org/learn/antibioticos.
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