LEAP Courses
Pallium’s award-winning Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) courses is Canada’s leading suite of courseware on palliative care for health care organizations and professionals. LEAP courses provide health care professionals with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills to help provide palliative care to patients and families facing life-limiting illnesses in a more timely and effective way.
LEAP courses are developed and peer-reviewed by volunteer pan-Canadian teams of subject matter experts who are committed to promoting the palliative care approach.
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Why LEAP?
- Leading palliative care course in Canada
- Tens of thousands of health care professionals trained on LEAP
- Accredited
- Evidence-based
- Inter-professional
- Developed by Canadian experts
- Peer-reviewed
- Evaluated and updated regularly
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Palliative Care Education
Pallium’s suite of LEAP courseware provides practical, inter-professional and evidence-based training in the palliative care approach. LEAP courses are inter-professional and designed for all health care professions—LEAP courses in purple meet the needs of most health care professionals. LEAP courses in red provide the same inter-professional training, targeted to the context of specific care settings or specialties. LEAP courses in orange are targeted for specific professions.
If your organization is interested in running a LEAP course, please visit our Host a Course page. If you are a health care professional looking to register for a LEAP course, visit our Take a Course page.
For all health care professionals
In-person| Online
LEAP Core is an interprofessional course that provides health care professionals with an in-depth learning experience on essential skills and competencies of the palliative care approach. LEAP Core is taught by local experts who are experienced palliative care clinicians and educators.
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In-person
LEAP Mini is an interprofessional course that provides health care professionals with a condensed, one-day learning experience on the essential skills and competencies of the palliative care approach. LEAP Mini is taught by local experts who are experienced palliative care clinicians and educators.
Setting and Speciality-specific
In-person| Online
LEAP Long-Term Care is an interprofessional course that focuses on the essential competencies to provide a palliative care approach, with case studies contextualized to the long-term care setting.
In-person
LEAP Emergency Department is an interprofessional course that provides health care professionals with the essential skills and competencies of the palliative care approach, with course modules and case studies contextualized to the emergency department setting. LEAP Emergency Department is taught by local subject matter experts who are experienced palliative care clinicians and educators.
In-person
LEAP Hospital is an interprofessional course that provides health care professionals with the essential skills and competencies of the palliative care approach, with course modules and case studies contextualized to the hospital setting. LEAP Hospital is taught by local subject matter experts who are experienced palliative care clinicians and educators.
In-person
LEAP Renal is an interprofessional course that provides health care professionals with the essential skills and competencies of the palliative care approach, with course modules and case studies contextualized to the renal care setting. LEAP Renal is taught by local subject matter experts who are experienced palliative care clinicians and educators.
In-person
LEAP Oncology is an interprofessional course that provides health care professionals with the essential skills and competencies of the palliative care approach, with course modules and case studies contextualized to the cancer care setting. LEAP Oncology is taught by local subject matter experts who are experienced palliative care clinicians and educators.
Profession-specific
ONLINE (Self-learning)
LEAP Personal Support Worker is an online, self-learning course that provides personal support workers and care aides with the essential competencies to provide a palliative care approach.
In-person| Online
LEAP Paramedic is a blended learning course for paramedics and Emergency Medical Service professionals that teaches the essential practical knowledge, attitudes, and skills to provide a palliative care approach on-site. LEAP Paramedic is taught by local paramedic experts and experienced palliative care practitioners.
In-person
LEAP Under/Post-Graduate provides medical, nursing and other health school educators with access to all LEAP course content, tools and resources to use in their undergraduate or post-graduate courses. LEAP Under/Post-Graduate was designed to be responsive to different curricula being taught in medical, nursing and other health schools across Canada. Educators have access to all LEAP modules and can select based on their students’ learning needs.
Setting and Speciality-specific
Online
LEAP Heart is an interprofessional course that provides health care professionals with the skills and competencies of the palliative care approach, with course modules and case studies contextualized to cardiology teams working in outpatient clinics, hospitals, and coronary care units.
Online
LEAP Lung is an interprofessional course that provides health care professionals with the skills and competencies of the palliative care approach, with course modules and case studies contextualized to the respirology care setting.
In-person
LEAP Paediatric is an interprofessional blended learning course that provides health care professionals with the skills and competencies of the palliative care approach contextualized to the paediatric care setting.
In-person
LEAP Liver is an interprofessional course that provides health care professionals with the skills and competencies of the palliative care approach, with course modules and case studies contextualized to the liver care setting.
Profession-specific
Online
LEAP Carers is an online, self-learning course that provides carers with information and resources to help them provide care to their family or friends living with a serious illness.
LEAP by the Numbers (as of 2014)
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LEAP courses are developed and peer-reviewed by volunteer pan-Canadian teams of subject matter experts who are committed to promoting the palliative care approach.
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