OU Health Sciences

Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, the practice of medicine has transformed with each ground-breaking scientific discovery and technological advance in the health sciences. Despite this progress in human achievement and clinical research, the prevalence of chronic disease has increased continually, while the top causes of mortality remain proportionate in the U.S. general population. In fact, more Americans are developing heart disease now more than ever before and cardiovascular-related mortality remains the top cause of death among Americans, followed by cancer, accidents, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, and kidney disease. Each day, clinicians are faced with a dilemma for how to best prevent chronic disease: 1) Manage disease with drug therapies over the long-term. 2) Prevent disease by providing patients with effective tools to take responsibility for their health and by optimizing health, fitness, and lifestyle. Part of this problem boils down to how clinicians are trained to prioritize attaining “normal” over striving to optimize the health and wellness of patients. We call this “in-the-box thinking” and more and more clinicians are embracing a paradigm shift that focuses less on maintaining normal and, instead, prioritizes achieving the optimal health of patients. Our courses are designed based on two concepts: - Normal does not equal healthy. - Normal does not equal optimal.

Our mission is to provide clinicians with novel, engaging, on-demand medical education and resources to prepare patients with the tools to take responsibility for health and achieve optimal health and wellness throughout the lifespan.

Our approach to medical education allows clinicians anywhere in the world to access high-quality, evidence-based medical education and CEU courses on-demand. To achieve this, our medical curriculum and courses are based on five core values.

Our approach to medical education provides clinicians with instant access to high-quality, evidence-based medical courses and CEUs developed by a team of multidisciplinary experts.

We go to great lengths to ensure the education we provide is concise, simplified, and relevant, and to ensure the quality and rigor of our medical curriculum, certification courses, and CEUs are unmatched by any higher education institution or university.

We give clinicians a wide range of novel and engaging options for medical courses and CEU topics that align with your personal preferences, research interests, and practice needs.

Although we offer on-site certifications and opportunities to earn CEUs, we also understand the time constraints of medical professionals and believe learning should not be constrained by time nor location, which is why our medical curriculum and CEU courses can be accessed anywhere at any time based on your schedule.

We provide medical professionals with key knowledge, scientific concepts, and medical principles and caveats necessary to grow as providers and develop sound clinical acumen.

As new methods emerge in medicine, OU Health Sciences stays abreast of the current literature across many disciplines and compiles scientific evidence to enhance practitioner learning, increase field-specific knowledge, and promote clinical acumen. Our evidence-based approach to medical curriculum development integrates high-quality scientific evidence intentionally into the design of our CME courses, which allows us to provide objective interpretation of research findings, treatment algorithms, caveats, guidance, feedback, and practical issues. Our CME courses are proprietary, designed with modern instructional technology by credentialed subject matter experts and developed with multiple instructional methods, such as the case study method, hybrid (i.e., traditional + nontraditional) techniques, interactive learning, and modern instructional technology. For many clinicians, traditional medical education courses for industry certification and to earn CMEs can be frustrating, inconvenient, and time-consuming. At Optimize U Health Sciences, we leverage advanced instructional methods, merging both traditional and nontraditional higher education techniques to eliminate frustration, lower CME completion time, and provide the highest quality CMEs in the industry. Any clinician, regardless of the field of practice, specialty, or credentials, can discover many novel, interesting, and engaging courses to meet CME requirements. We build optimal medical practice one course at a time.