LEAP Core Applied - Pallium Canada

Strengthening clinical judgment in complex care situations

Health care professionals regularly encounter situations where patient needs evolve, information is incomplete, and there is no single clear answer. Applying a palliative care approach in these moments requires more than knowledge alone. It requires sound clinical judgment.

LEAP Core Applied helps bridge the gap between foundational learning and clinical practice. Through interactive clinical simulations, realistic patient cases, and facilitated discussion, learners strengthen their clinical judgment and build confidence navigating complex care situations.

Who is it for?

LEAP Core Applied is designed for any health care professionals who have completed foundational training in the palliative care approach and who are looking to strengthen their clinical judgment and confidence in applying their palliative care knowledge to better care for patients with life-limiting illnesses.

Prerequisites: Participants must have completed a Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) course (or equivalent) prior to registering for LEAP Core Applied.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of LEAP Core Applied, learners should be able to:

Integrate a palliative approach earlier in evolving care situations, particularly when complexity, decline, or uncertainty increases.
Recognize when changes in a patient’s overall condition signal the need to shift how care is guided.
Adapt conversations when patients and care partners have differing perspectives or strong emotional responses.
Build confidence navigating complex care situations where there is no single clear answer.
Communicate clearly about care options when preferences and clinical realities are in tension.
Exercise professional judgment within role, policy, and system constraints while supporting patient-centred care.

Course features

Learn from evolving patient cases in an interactive clinical simulator grounded in real-world practice.

Reflect on the cases in a facilitated workshop and consider how you would respond in practice.

Understand how your role fits within the team as you work through each patient case.

Strengthen your clinical decision-making skills in fast-moving environments.

Build confidence navigating uncertainty, competing priorities, and complex care situations.

Earn a nationally recognized LEAP certificate of completion.

Learn from evolving patient cases in an interactive clinical simulator grounded in real-world practice.

Reflect on the cases in a facilitated workshop and consider how you would respond in practice.

Understand how your role fits within the team as you work through each patient case.

Learn directly from Canadian palliative care subject matter experts.

Build confidence navigating uncertainty, competing priorities, and complex care situations.

Earn a nationally recognized LEAP certificate of completion.

LEAP Core Applied will be delivered through a blended, online learning experience (approx. 4 hours):

Pre-workshop: Complete 5 case-based patient scenarios (approx. 1 hour) in an interactive clinical simulator. Cases unfold across an illness trajectory and reflect common clinical situations in palliative care.
Online workshop: Participate in a 2-hour facilitated online workshop led by certified LEAP facilitators, where learners discuss cases and explore different approaches to similar clinical situations in practice.
Post-workshop: Complete 5 additional clinical scenarios (approx. 1 hour), applying learnings from the workshop to new and evolving situations.

Pricing for online delivery

$195 for physicians
$195 for non-physicians
$195 for personal care aides

Non-physicians refers to nurses, pharmacists, social workers, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, students, residents, etc.

Personal care aides refers to personal support workers, health care aides, health care assistants, care aides, etc.

LEAP Core Applied will be delivered through a blended, online learning experience (approx. 4 hours):

Pre-workshop: Learners complete 5 case-based patient scenarios (approx. 1 hour) in an interactive clinical simulator. Cases unfold across an illness trajectory and reflect common clinical situations in palliative care.
In-person workshop: Participate in a 2-hour facilitated in-person workshop led by certified LEAP facilitators, where learners discuss cases and explore different approaches to similar clinical situations in practice.
Post-workshop: Complete 5 additional clinical scenarios (approx. 1 hour), applying learnings from the workshop to new and evolving situations.

Pricing for hybrid delivery

$195 for physicians
$195 for non-physicians
$195 for personal care aides

Non-physicians refers to nurses, pharmacists, social workers, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, students, residents, etc.

Personal care aides refers to personal support workers, health care aides, health care assistants, care aides, etc.

Funding

The development of this course was made possible thanks to the generous support of the J & W Murphy Foundation.

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Key LEAP features

Pallium’s award-winning suite of LEAP courseware transforms health care practice across all settings of care, through practical, interprofessional and evidence-based palliative care training.

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Created and peer-reviewed by Canadian experts.

Earn nationally recognized certification.

Collaborate with interprofessional health care professionals.

Backed by evidence and best practices.

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