Chemistry for the Health Professions

Chemistry Essentials for Healthcare Professionals

Rather than teaching chemistry in the abstract, this course asks the question: How does chemistry matter to health? You'll build mastery of bonding, thermodynamics, and gas laws—not through equations alone, but by connecting them to real applications in medicine and environmental health. Quantitative methods like stoichiometry and energy calculations become tools for understanding drug metabolism and physiological processes.

Redox reactions, acid-base equilibrium, and organic mechanisms form the basis of how medications work and how the body processes them. The course makes chemistry practical, not abstract.