Retiring courses

Hi there,

While the Health and Medicine course has been removed from the khanacademy.org site, there are currently no plans to remove the videos from YouTube. However, we do encourage you to find other resources since, more than likely, they will be removed from YouTube eventually.

I would also like to mention that the Khan team has decided to extend the availability of the MCAT content through September 2021 to provide more time for learners to explore alternative resources. This means that, if you're interested, you will be able to continue to access Khan Academy’s MCAT course via this direct link, or on our YouTube channel until then.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions

Why did you have to remove health and medicine? That was very helpful for me and now I only found out that you removed it when I have to do revision for a test. Your sources and videos were very good and now I have to downgrade to another service. Mostly I really want to know why you had to retire the course.

Hi, you can still find the course here.https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine 

I discovered through a link in an article about the evolution of viruses in the biology library.

Why did you remove health & medicine?????? Help!

Why would you retire the health and science course? Some my instructors are very upset and quite frankly so am I. It is very difficult to find free health courses and Khan Academy is such a trusted resource for the county I attend school. We even have it on the front of our school page to use as a resource. But now you've retired and entire course, and mind you we have a health science academy within our school. I have no idea how I'm supposed to study now

why can't KA just create an "archived" section of the website for all the old content? surely there's no economic argument for self-sabotaging already created content? just having it on YT is not really good enough as it doesn't allow you to go through the course from start to end in the same way. like, it doesn't need maintaining, just host the old material elsewhere, like on a "KA2" site or something. this really makes no sense and seems to be completely against the initial ethos. Also why would the content eventually be removed from YT?!?

i honestly find this so bizarre and self-destructive with very little logic given for why removal is necessary. stopping further maintainence makes sense, but removal is just madness without further explanation.

Hi! So I found a link to the "archived" course: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine

I found it in an article.

**TRICK/TIP: for "archived" (as in, I hope they remain archived and don't expire/delete) courses, try typing "https://www.khanacademy.org/" followed by the subject (ex: "science") followed by "/" followed by the name of the course (ex: "health-and-medicine"). Notice that instead of typing spaces ("health and medicine"), you have dashes "-" as in "health-and-medicine." This should hopefully help you to find ANY course besides the one mentioned here for health and medicine. I don't know the archived courses would at some point expire/be deleted, but if hopefully if they aren't (yet), then that method should work.

Ex: find the archived course for AP World History

1. type this:    https://www.khanacademy.org/

2. add the subject category:    https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities

3. add "/":    https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/

4. add the course (spaces as dashes):    https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-world-history

If you can't remember the exact subject title/category, try finding the list of subject categories in Khan Academy, and hopefully, you can recognize under which subject category (ex: math, science, humanities) it would have been in. Otherwise, you can do trial and error by placing it in the URL and seeing if that brings you to the course. There should be other related courses in the same title to help you figure this out. (ex: after scrolling through the subject category for world history was under "humanities," so that is what I typed for in the URL. If I didn't know that, well, there is a regular "world history" course, so by common sense, the "AP World History" course would have also been under the "humanities" course).

If that is too complicated, then do a Google search of the course (don't worry if you can't remember the exact title name, but try to be as close as possible). Include a keyword such as "archived," and it should in the results show you a Khan Academy blog post article on the archived course followed by a URL link to still access it.

Hopefully, this helped.

Thanks Aarya! That's really helpful! :)

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