beginnerMedicine & mechanisms

The Tract: Do You Know What It Does?

The tract is the case compressed for a person who has five minutes and no background. This course takes you through it line by line, so you can give it away and answer what comes back.

Lessons: 1
Time: about 15 min
Prerequisites: None
Source: the treatise

By the end Be able to give the whole case in plain words to someone who has never heard it, sourcing every claim and leading with grace.

Start with lesson 1

What you will work through

1The Tract: Do You Know What It Does?15 min · beginnerThe plain-word version of the whole case — the tract worked through step by step, so you can put it in someone's hand and answer their questions.

After this course

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