#Beneficence full
#Beneficence free

This creates the ready possibility of immediately, sustainably, and globally-permanently transforming health sciences education, and ongoingly supplying millions of physicians, public health professionals, and other health workers.Īnd finally, has a sustainable business model.

#Beneficence free

This free model has been tested in North American medical and public health students, and in community health workers and primary care physicians in Kenya, with as much knowledge gain and greater student satisfaction than with traditional courses, and the creation of a community of practice that has learned to interact globally and productively. In Graduate Medical Education, our first residencies are launching in Preventive Medicine and in Pediatrics, developed with the American College of Preventive Medicine, Association of Prevention Teaching and Research, Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard, and Stanford Medicine.

#Beneficence full

Our accredited partners, North American universities that are outstanding in each particular course topic, give learners credit for this training (or institutions can adopt them and use them with their students), all for the first time ever cost-free, and also advertisement-free, barrier-free, and carbon-free.įounded in 2001, we globally launched our first full course in March 2012. This educational system is not a set of Massive Open Online Courses - courses are competency-based, and include online knowledge transfer, a web-based global peer community of practice, skills-based mentorships, and a free certificate. We now have over 5,000 registered users in 150 countries, and expect to achieve our ultimate outcome by July 2018: the world's first free degrees, an MD and a Master's in Public Health (along with Graduate Medical Education and a full Bachelor's level pre-health sciences certificate). Starting with a focus in the health sciences, our accredited courses span from college-level pre-health sciences and community health worker trainings through medical and public health graduate training, medical residency programs, and continuing medical education. I founded/invented in 2001 (before MOOCs), and we're essentially the world's first (and still only) free university: we’re globally accessible for credit, for free, unlike any other organization. Even as a Canada Research Chair at a university, I do not put 'scientist' at the top of my monikers.Ĭould you tell us about ? How did you get started and where do you see the project going? It’s an interesting dichotomy: I simultaneously have always been a scientist (as a rational and curious human experimenter and inventor), and yet that title is something that is rarely claimed by physicians, unless we're also PhDs. When did you first identify as a scientist? Tell us about the research you’re doing now.

In addition to serving as Pod Coordinator for 500WS Nanaimo in British Columbia, she is a Professor at the University of British Columbia. Erica Frank shares her passion for advocacy and her 2001 invention of - in essence, the world's first free university.