CHANTILLY, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Great Courses, the leading global media brand for lifelong learning, is working with Mayo Clinic to create premium video courses in health and wellness. The collaboration, which will produce at least nine courses, brings together a worldwide leader in medical care, education, and research with the top producers of engaging educational media for personal enlightenment and enrichment.
“By sharing our knowledge through video, we can broadly deliver Mayo Clinic’s health-care expertise to help people stay well or to find answers when they are ill,” said Paul Limburg, M.D., M.P.H., medical director for Global Business Solutions at Mayo Clinic. “Through these courses, people can access our physicians’ insights into current medical research and practice.”
The first course, The Science of Integrative Medicine, will be taught by Brent A. Bauer, M.D., director of the Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program.
The course focuses on complementary and integrative medicine practices and what science can — and cannot — prove about their effectiveness. Nearly 40 percent of all Americans report using these treatments, which include acupuncture, yoga, tai chi, herbal remedies, traditional Chinese medicine, hypnosis, meditation, biofeedback, and spinal manipulation.
“Our highly educated, multifaceted customers enjoy learning from the best-in-class experts from our elite content relationships,” said Ed Leon, chief brand officer for The Great Courses. “They learn photography from the best photographers at National Geographic, cooking from The Culinary Institute of America, art and culture from the Smithsonian, and now they will have the top source for health and wellness information — the doctors of Mayo Clinic. We can’t imagine a better resource, and we look forward to producing in-depth, cutting-edge medical education for our worldwide audience.”
The course is available in multiple formats at www.thegreatcourses.com. On May 30 it will be added to The Great Courses Plus, the new subscription learning-on-demand platform from The Great Courses, which streams more than 6,000 individual video lectures covering a universe of subjects from the world’s greatest professors.
Future series already in development with Mayo Clinic include:
- Mayo Clinic Guide to Pain Relief
- Mayo Clinic Diet and Exercise for Weight Loss
- Mayo Clinic Guide to Aging Well
- Mayo Clinic Guide to Preventive Medicine
The Great Courses services millions of lifelong learners and has delivered more than 19 million courses since 1990 via CDs, DVDs, digital downloads, and streaming apps. Each year the company hones its media production values, graphics, and animation, always aimed at creating learning experiences that ignite the minds and imaginations of its customers. The result is a global community of lifelong learners who include noted business and political leaders worldwide.
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