Self-Paced eLearning Courses
To get started, select a course below and complete the registration form. You may register for one of the AHS 20-Hour Breastfeeding Courses individually or all of them at once.
This free CME-accredited course provides flexible, accredited learning to enhance your breastfeeding knowledge and support skills. The self-paced online modules have been developed for all health care providers working with expectant and breastfeeding families across the continuum of care.
AHS Early Years Health Promotion would like to thank all stakeholders across the maternal-child continuum of care who were involved in the development of this module.
Available Modules:
- Positive Breastfeeding Support
- Including Partners and Supporters
- Informed Feeding Decisions
- Introduction to Breastmilk and Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding Support Skills & Assessment
- Variations & Challenges for the Breastfeeding Parent
- Variations & Challenges for the Breastfeeding Infant
- Breastmilk Expression & Supplementary Feeding
- Community & System Supports for Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding Transitions
Credit hours:
- Positive Breastfeeding Support: 1.5 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
- Including Partners & Supporters: 1.0 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
- Informed Feeding Decisions: 1.5 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
- Introduction to Breastmilk & Breastfeeding: 2.0 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
- Breastfeeding Support Skills & Assessment: 2.0 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
- Variations & Challenges for the Breastfeeding Parent: 3.0 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
- Variations & Challenges for the Breastfeeding Infant: 3.0 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour
- Breastmilk Expression & Supplementary Feeding: 2.0 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
- Community & System Supports for Breastfeeding: 1.0 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
- Breastfeeding Transitions: 1.0 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
Format: Self-paced online modules
Registration:
You may register for each module individually, or register for all modules at once.
- Positive Breastfeeding Support
- Including Partners & Supporters
- Informed Feeding Decisions
- Introduction to Breastmilk & Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding Support Skills & Assessment
- Variations & Challenges for the Breastfeeding Parent
- Variations & Challenges for the Breastfeeding Infant
- Breastmilk Expression & Supplementary Feeding
- Community & System Supports for Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding Transitions
The last module in the AHS 20-Hour Breastfeeding Course, Breastfeeding Support for Preterm, Small, & Sick Infants, is coming soon!
This online, self-paced, CME program has been co-developed by the Cardiovascular Health & Stroke Strategic Clinical Network, and the University of Calgary CME&PD.
The intent of this online course is to support and educate key providers (ie. physicians, pharmacists, NPs) with the information needed to engage in lab-based cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk screening and apply appropriate evidence-based treatment to patients for primary prevention of ASCVD.
Credit Hours: 1.5 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
Format: Self-paced online modules
First, do no harm. How do you keep yourselves, your patients, and your families safe when using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) while caring for patients in isolation? The Personal Protective Equipment Certification Course aims to prepare healthcare providers to care for patients who require droplet and contact isolation on medical admission units in the Calgary Zone, assuring adherence to existing infection prevention and control (IPC) protocols and avoid exposure to suspected pathogens.
After completing the course, you will be equipped to:
- Recognize and evaluate the indications for PPE use
- Recognize the features of appropriate hand hygiene
- List the steps for donning and doffing PPE
- List the indications for N95 mask use
Credit hours: 1.0 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
Format: Self-paced online modules
This course was co-developed with Calgary Medicine Emergency-Pandemic Operations Command (MEOC) and was planned to achieve scientific integrity, objectivity and balance.
Acknowledgement
Primary authors: Dr. Ghazwan Altabbaa, Corrinne Pidhorney (IPC consultant) and Dr. Vanessa Meier-Stephenson
Teaching faculty: Simulation educators and IPC professionals
Physicians are committed to the health and well-being of individual patients and society through ethical practice, high personal standards of behaviour, accountability to the profession and society, physician-led regulation, and maintenance of personal health and professional wellness. This course is designed to help you recognize and safely navigate everyday ethical and professional challenges, identify and prevent conflicts and potential misconducts.
After completing the course, you will be equipped to:
- Demonstrate values and expectations of professionalism in medical practice in Alberta
- Identify situations that may be at high risk of raising issues around professionalism
- Recognize the early warning signs indicating ethical dilemmas and boundary problems
- Engage in reflective practice to maintain ethical and professional practice
Access resources that are available for continuous support of professionalism and wellness
Credit hours: 1.5 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour / MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment Program
Format: Self-paced online modules
This course was provided by the CPSA and the University of Calgary CME & PD, and was planned to achieve scientific integrity, objectivity and balance.
Acknowledgement
This course has received an educational grant from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.
In order to address tapering and stopping opioid therapy, the Calgary Pain Program and the UofC CME&PD co-developed an online self-learning course, so that practitioners have the opportunity to review the principles and guidelines, reflect on their own practices, and discuss enablers and barriers.
Upon completion of the online modules, learners will be able to:
- Identify whether opioid tapering is an appropriate plan for a given patient
- Plan a tapering discussion that is evidence-based and responsive to the patient’s readiness for change
- Execute an opioid taper with a motivated patient
- Troubleshoot challenges that occur during an opioid taper
Credit hours (online modules): 8.0 Mainpro+ Self-Learning one-credit-per-hour.
This course was provided by Calgary Pain Program and the University of Calgary CME&PD, and was planned to achieve scientific integrity, objectivity and balance.
Acknowledgement
This program has received educational grants from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta and the Alberta Physician Learning Program.
Thank the external experts reviewing the curriculum:
Peter MacDougall PhD MD FRCPC
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Management and Peri-operative Medicine, Dalhousie University
Director, Atlantic Mentorship Network – Pain and Addiction
Christy Sutherland MD CCFP dABAM
Medical Director, PHS Community Services Society
Physician Education Lead, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Family Medicine
Precision Physician Support Services Courses
Clinical reasoning is a core competency for ensuring patient safety and the quality of patient care. It is a skill, process, or outcome wherein physicians observe, collect, and interpret data to diagnose and treat patients. Problems flagged during “Physician Practice Reviews”, such as missed diagnoses and suboptimal documentation, frequently reveal gaps in clinical reasoning. This course aims to explicitly remind and refresh physicians of the foundational elements that support clinical reasoning. Participants will learn steps and tools that lead to a better clinical process and improved practice.
After completing the course, you will be equipped to:
- Recognize the foundational elements supporting clinical reasoning
- Access your own mental pathways for clinical processes and reasoning
- Apply tools to self-evaluate and improve clinical reasoning
Credits:
CFPC
This three-credit-per-hour Self-Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 30 Mainpro+ credits.
RCPSC
This activity is an Accredited Self-Assessment Program (Section 3) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and approved by the University of Calgary Office of Continuing Medical Education & Professional Development. Participants may claim a maximum of 10 hours.
Course Format:
Participants will complete a series of learning activities:
- Online self-learning pre-workshop activity
- Workshop
- Online post-workshop activity
- Webinar
Completion of the online self-learning activity is the prerequisite for attending the workshop and the webinar.
The medical record facilitates good care. With contemporaneous documentation of patient encounters, the reflection and review can reinforce the consistency, completeness and quality of your clinical activities. This program aims to address sufficient documentation, which is central to patient safety and continuity of quality care. Participants will learn how to appropriately document patient encounters following the Subjective Objective Assessment Plan (SOAP) format.
After completing the course, you will be equipped to:
- recognize the general principles and multiple purposes of medical record documentation
- identify the elements and characteristics of appropriate documentation of patient encounters
- use the SOAP-based tool to self-evaluate and improve the practice of documenting patient encounters
- practice effective written communication of referral or consult letters
Credits:
CFPC
COURSE GROUP ACTIVITY
MAINPRO+ GROUP LEARNING
This three-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of The College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the University of Calgary Office of Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development for up to 30.0 Mainpro+ credits.
RCPSC
MOC SECTION 3 SELF-ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
This activity is an Accredited Self-Assessment Program (Section 3) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by University of Calgary Office of Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 10.0 hours (credits are automatically calculated).
Course Format:
Participants will complete a series of learning activities:
- Online self-learning pre-workshop activity
- Workshop
- Online post-workshop activity
- Webinar
Completion of the online self-learning activity is the prerequisite for attending the workshop and the webinar.
Welcome to the SUPPORT for PPIP course, which is committed to Simplify, Understand & Perform Practice Optimization Requirements Together to help you meet the requirements for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA)’s Physician Practice Improvement Program (PPIP) Program through a series of interactive modules, self-reflection activities and webinars.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify and gather personalized data for a potential
- CPSA Standards of Practice Quality Improvement (QI) activity
- Practice-driven QI activity
- Personal development activity (coming soon)
- Initiate incremental personalized practice optimization
- Record activities to fulfill requirements for CPSA’s PPIP program and claim CME credits
Credits:
This one-credit-per-hour Self-Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the University of Calgary Office of Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development for up to 15 Mainpro+ credits.
This activity is an Accredited Self-Assessment Program as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program (Section 3) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by University of Calgary Office of Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 15 hours (credits are automatically calculated).
You may also perform Linking Learning exercises around a question you ask yourself as a result of learning from this program at: http://www.cfpc.ca/Linking_Learning_exercises/. Each completed Linking Learning exercise earns up to five Mainpro+ certified credits.
Accredited Royal College MOC Section 1 and Section 3 credits are eligible for certified Mainpro+ credits, up to a maximum of 50 credits per five-year cycle; any additional credits are eligible as non-certified Mainpro+ credits. MOC Section 3 accredited activities can be claimed at 3 credits per hour up to the cycle maximum.
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