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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LEAP™ Oncology
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™ Home Care
LEAP™ Home Care is an interprofessional, facilitates learning program that focuses on the essential competencies to provide a palliative care approach, with case studies and group discussions contextualized to a home care setting.
Why LEAP™?
LEAP™ courses transform frontline health care professional practice across all settings of care.
- 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
Online
LEAP™ In-Depth is a unique opportunity for health care professionals to continue learning about the palliative care approach and take a deeper dive into palliative care.
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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
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.
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.
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Online|hybrid
LEAP™ Home Care is an interprofessional, facilitated online learning program that focuses on the essential competencies to provide a palliative care approach, with case studies and webinars contextualized to a home care setting.
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In-person|Onlinehybrid
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.
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Online
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.
Online|hybrid
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
LEAP™ Leaders is unique learning opportunity for health system leaders and administrators looking to improve access to palliative care and integrate palliative care into the health systems and services they lead.
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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.
ONLINE (Self-learning)
LEAP™ Carers is a free 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.
Online|hybrid
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
hybrid|Online
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.
Online|hybrid
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.
Online|hybrid
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.
Online|hybrid
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.
LEAP™ by the Numbers (since 2014)
Host a Course
Pallium is ready to work with your organization to host a LEAP™ course and begin empowering your team to deliver better patient-centred palliative care. Learn More ›
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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