Who is it for?
LEAP Leaders is a unique learning opportunity for health care leaders, administrators, and policymakers. The course is designed for leaders at all leadership levels and applicable to many different settings of care. LEAP™ Leaders may also be useful for postgraduate learners in fields such as health services management and leadership.
This online course provides health care leaders at all levels of leadership with the knowledge, insights, and resources to improve the palliative care aspects of their services. This includes better understanding of what palliative care is and the impact on patients and health care services, palliative care service components that are needed, and the data and evidence to support these.
LEAP Leaders will help leaders review their services and develop business plans and initiatives to better integrate (or endorse) palliative care delivered to their patients with serious illnesses.
Course features
Balance professional responsibility with learning in this flexible course, designed to be taken at your own pace over six months.
Collaborate and learn alongside interprofessional health care leaders, administrators and policymakers from across Canada.
Gain the skills to critically evaluate your organization services and develop strategic plans to integrate palliative care effectively for patients with life-limiting illnesses.
Learn from a curriculum that integrates the leadership capabilities of the five domains of the LEADS framework.
Opportunity to earn a Health Leadership Specialty (HLS) in palliative care from the Canadian College of Health Leaders for individuals with their Certified Health Executive (CHE) designation.
Earn a nationally recognized LEAP certificate of completion.
Balance professional responsibility with learning in this flexible course, designed to be taken at your own pace over six months.
Collaborate and learn alongside interprofessional health care leaders, administrators and policymakers from across Canada.
Gain the skills to critically evaluate your organization services and develop strategic plans to integrate palliative care effectively for patients with life-limiting illnesses.
Learn from a curriculum that integrates the leadership capabilities of the five domains of the LEADS framework.
An opportunity to earn a Health Leadership Specialty (HLS) in palliative care from the Canadian College of Health Leaders for individuals with their Certified Health Executive (CHE) designation.
Earn a nationally recognized LEAP certificate of completion.
Delivery mode
Part one focuses on what palliative care is, why it is needed (at both a generalist- and specialist-level), who provides it, and the impact on patients and the health care system.
- Self-paced learning: Complete 5 interactive, self-learning modules at your own pace.
- Workshop: Participate in a 1.5-hour live webinar led by a panel of palliative care experts, where learners will work through cases and discuss learnings from modules, address emerging questions, and receive input on initiatives learners may be considering or undertaking to improve their palliative care services
Part two:
Part two explores how to organize services, including staffing needs, and how to compare palliative care delivery across regions and internationally. For clinicians in the group, there is also an opportunity to complete several clinical modules that introduce core clinical concepts and approaches related to providing a palliative care approach.
- Self-paced learning: Complete 5 interactive, self-learning modules at your own pace.
- Workshop: Participate in a 1.5-hour live webinar led by a panel of palliative care experts, where learners will work through cases and discuss learnings from modules, address emerging questions, and receive input on initiatives learners may be considering or undertaking to improve their palliative care services
Pricing for online delivery
$1,950 for physicians
$1,950 for non-physicians
$1,950 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.
Topics covered include:
LEAP Leaders is a unique learning opportunity for health system leaders at all levels of leadership to gain the knowledge, insights, and resources to improve the palliative care aspects of their services, with course topics including:
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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