Course Catalog

MedPath Foundations

The Beginning of the Pre-Med Journey

Does your child light up when they hear about the human body? Are they curious about how things work inside us? MedPath Foundations is the perfect first step for young learners who are excited about biology but need a gentle, engaging introduction.

MedPath: Foundations is the starting point. Your child start with thirty short anatomy coloring lessons taught by a physician, combined with more than 50 healthcare career coloring pages, so your child’s first real encounter with the human body is clinical and accurate from day one.

 

Clinical from Day One

Who This Course is For

Curious Children (Grades K–3)

Kids who love to color and learn best through visual, hands-on activities, ready for their first real introduction to anatomy. Every lesson pairs Dr. Robin's guided teaching with the Anatomy Coloring Book.

Kids Who Already Say "I Want to Be a Doctor" (or Nurse, or Vet)

Foundations exposes them to dozens of career options through custom career coloring pages built into every body system, so their dream gets real information.

Families new to MedPath

Who want to start at the beginning, regardless of the child's age. If anatomy is new territory and attention spans are short , this is where you start.

During The Course You Will

What to expect

  • Watch physician-led video lessons for every major body system
  • Color through the Anatomy Coloring Book alongside each lesson
  • Explore healthcare careers through custom coloring pages and Would You Rather questions
  • Track progress through an optional fantasy-themed guidebook
  • Complete a level to earn your Certificate

Learning Objectives

What you will be able to do

  • Name and label the major structures of each body system
  • Describe how each body system’s anatomy relates to its function
  • Identify multiple healthcare careers connected to each body system, not just doctor, nurse, and vet
  • Recall the anatomical vocabulary that carries through every future MedPath level

What's Included?

A Gentle Start to Pre-Med with Coloring

For our youngest students we start with coloring.  Anatomy coloring and career coloring pages.

Find Your Level in Two Minutes

Syllabus

List of Modules

Respiratory System

  • Lungs in Situ (16:23)
  • Bronchi and Alveoli (11:47)
  • How We Make Speech (17:13)
  • Career Coloring Pages

Cardiovascular System

  • Heart Exterior (19:14)
  • Cardiac Cycle (11:56)
  • Heart Interior (12:52)
  • Circulatory System (21:57)
  • Career Coloring Pages

Urinary System

  • Kidneys and Bladder (11:10)
  • Kidney and Nephron (14:23)
  • Career Coloring Pages

Gastrointestinal System

  • Inside the Mouth (16:55)
  • Digestive System (20:09)
  • Small Intestine (14:01)
  • Biliary Tree (15:17)
  • Career Coloring Pages

Lymphatic

  • Lymphatic System (18:48)
  • Career Coloring Pages

Integumentary

  • Skin (11:39)
  • Career Coloring Pages

Musculoskeletal System

  • Bones and Joints (23:28)
  • Comparative Anatomy of the Limbs: Bones (20:43)
  • Comparative Anatomy of the Limbs: Muscles (13:39)
  • Axial Skeleton (15:34)
  • Career Coloring Pages

Nervous System

  • Autonomic Nervous System (20:17)
  • Spine and Spinal Cord (12:16)
  • Dermatomes (15:03)
  • Nerve Cells (10:08)
  • Brain (10:53)
  • Homunculus (11:40)
  • Eye (8:30)
  • Ear (11:47)
  • Where Senses Go in the Brain (8:05)
  • Career Coloring Pages

Wrapping Up

  • Anatomy: Systems of the Human Body (13:26)
  • Anatomy: The Human Cell (16:09)
  • Career Coloring Pages

Frequently Asked Questions

What families wonder before signing up.

Isn't my child too young for something this serious?

Kids who start learning clinical-level content early don’t realize it’s “serious,” they just think it’s cool. By the time their peers are seeing a human heart for the first time in AP Biology, MedPath students have already dissected one, understood the cardiac cycle, and learned what goes wrong with it. Starting early doesn’t pressure kids, it gives them years to absorb, repeat, and genuinely understand instead of cramming.

Most families finish their first pass in 6-12 months. Most students need to repeat it 2-3 times to understand how the different systems work together.  For example, the first time through the circulatory system, they won’t have done the digestive system yet. The second time they will understand the digestive organs better and get more out of the lesson.

Every family gets printable downloads. If you enroll for lifetime access you receive printed books mailed to your home for free. You can also purchase the books yourselves on Amazon.

We’ve set the price for lifetime to be the same as you’d pay for 10 months in the program to encourage families to go for lifetime and repeat the course a least a couple times.

Foundations doesn’t require a child to already be serious, it’s how they find out if they are. Short videos, coloring pages, and career questions are enough to catch a real spark. Even kids who move on to something else entirely still walk away with a real anatomy foundation.

Most curricula give kids one general science unit on the human body, not a foundation built for future healthcare professionals. Foundations teaches anatomy from a clinical perspective from the first lesson, the way a future doctor, nurse, or vet actually needs to learn it.

The anatomy is rigorous and clinically accurate, not trivia with a medical theme. The optional guidebook adds a fantasy layer to keep kids motivated, but that theme lives only in the guidebook. The curriculum itself is real anatomy, taught the way Dr. Robin would explain it to a future colleague.

Meet Dr. Robin

Dr. Robin is a family physician who has taught pre-med to over 3,500 kids and teens across the globe.

She has spent many years in clinical practice and years watching what happens when students arrive at the next stage without the foundation they needed.

She built MedPath from the other direction: starting with what future healthcare professionals actually need to know, and building backward from there. Not what’s traditionally taught. Not what fills a textbook. What actually matters. A comprehensive pre-med program for kids and teens.

The result is the only program of its kind anywhere in the world.

Dr. Robin Dickinson MD teaches pre-med for kids and teens at Dr. Robin's School

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