Who is it for?
LEAP Paramedic is ideal for paramedics and Emergency Medical Service professionals.
LEAP Paramedic promotes teamwork, enhances transitions of care, and catalyzes quality improvement initiatives in daily practice and within teams.
Course features
Collaborate and learn from interprofessional health care professionals, local paramedic experts and experienced palliative care practitioners
Promotes teamwork, enhances transitions of care, and catalyzes quality improvement initiatives in daily practice and within teams.
Developed and reviewed by Canadian palliative care experts.
Gain essential skills and competencies in the palliative care approach.
Earn a nationally recognized LEAP certificate of completion
Receive an electronic copy of the Pallium Palliative Pocketbook.
Collaborate and learn from interprofessional health care professionals, local paramedic experts and experienced palliative care practitioners
Promotes teamwork, enhances transitions of care, and catalyzes quality improvement initiatives in daily practice and within teams.
Developed and reviewed by Canadian palliative care experts.
Gain essential skills and competencies in the palliative care approach.
Earn a nationally recognized LEAP certificate of completion
Receive an electronic copy of the Pallium Palliative Pocketbook.
Delivery mode
- Self-paced learning: Complete 11 interactive, self-learning modules at your own pace (approximately 8 hours of work).
- Workshop: Participate in 6 hours of in-person, face-to-face learning with LEAP facilitators where learners will work through cases and discuss learnings from modules.
Pricing for hybrid delivery
$105 for paramedics
Course topics
LEAP Paramedic equips paramedics and Emergency Medical Service professionals with the essential practical knowledge, attitudes, and skills to provide a palliative care approach on-site, covering topics such as:
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.
Compassionate care in action.
After taking a LEAP course, Brock Browett learned the valuable role it plays in helping paramedics manage end-of-life care with empathy and expertise.
”It’s hands down the best training I’ve taken in 10 years. It gave me the in-depth medical knowledge I need to communicate effectively with patients and health care professionals.
Advanced Care ParamedicBrock Browett
Course contributors
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.
Course development team
- Cheryl Cameron, M.Ed., ACP (AB) (Alberta Lead)
- Dr. Lisa Fischer, MD, FRCPC (Emergency Medicine & Palliative Care Physician) (ON)
- Katherine Houde, ACP Paramedic, EHS (NS) (Nova Scotia Lead)
- Dr. José Luis Pereira, MBChB, DA, CCFP, MSc (ON)
- Dr. Erin O’Connor, MSc MD FRCPC (Emergency Medicine & Palliative Care Physician) (ON)
- Dr. Lori Teeple, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP (ON)
Course contributors and reviewers
- Darcy Clinton, Paramedic Chief/General Manager and Paramedic, Island EMS (PEI)
- Dr. Jolene Cook, ED Physician (NS)
- Sandee Crooks, ACP Paramedic, EHS (NS)
- Mark Walker, Manager of Clinical Services & ACP Paramedic, EHS (NS)
- Shawn Westbury, Eastern Operations Manager and Paramedic, Island EMS (PEI)
Peer reviewers
- Daniel Andrew, EMT-P (ACP) (AB)
- Tara Bester, EMT-A (PCP) (AB)
- Belle Clark, EMT-P (ACP) (AB)
- Erin Hosaluk, ACP (SK)
- Corey Lapalme, ACP (ON)
- Simon Tye, EMT-A (PCP) (AB)
- Tyler Vanderveen, EMT-P (ACP) (AB)
- Jack Zhang, EMT-A (PCP) (AB)
Back