Casa Loma College in collaboration with LiveLife Resources is committed to offering the best in health and healing education. Our courses are designed for health professionals as well as individuals who are interested in furthering their own knowledge in the areas of health education and integrative health practice.
Benefits of Taking a Certificate Program:
- Certificates provide valuable and specialized training in a short period of time
- Certificates improve marketability in the workforce
- Develops skill-sets for desired career fields
- Helps to get your foot into the door of a new career field
- Allows you to first explore a new career field before investing many years into it
- Helps you to maintain relevance within your industry
- More cost effective than a full degree program
Adult Echocardiography
![]() | Adult Echocardiography |
ARDMS Certification in Adult Echocardiography can help boost your career! By earning your Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) credential, healthcare professionals gain a critical edge in promoting patient safety in cardiac sonography. Adult Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) are a very specific kind of diagnostic medical sonographer dealing with the heart. Cardiac Sonographers use ultrasound devices and other imaging tools that use sound waves to create images of the heart. They inspect the chambers and walls of the heart as well as the valves. These examinations are used to diagnose congenital heart disease, valvular disease, pericardial disease, cardiomyopathy, and other cardiovascular disorders. The ECHO certificate course will provide you with the knowledge, skills, and ability in the areas of normal and abnormal cardiac anatomy, physiology, pathology, and hemodynamics as appropriate in the adult patient. Classroom Learning Scan Lab There is no clinical externship; however, students will gain the scanning skills and knowledge necessary by scanning volunteers during scan lab. Students will have the opportunity to obtain scanning experience on real patients at off-site clinical facilities under the guidance of the ECHO faculty. The program prepares you to take the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonography Adult Echocardiography (AE) credentialing examination and begin working in the adult cardiac specialty area. Program enrollment is limited and is offered in the Spring and Fall. All COVID-19 Health and Safety Guidelines will be adhered to Requirements:
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For more information regarding Adult Echocardiography, visit the links below. https://www.asecho.org/about-ase/ |
Integrative Health and Wellness
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How do people live well and what does it involve? How do individuals make sense of the various ideas and theories related to promoting & sustaining wellness? While our sciences help us understand what is health, they do not so much help us understand the human behavioral processes that underlie health and wellness behaviors and the change process. Integrative health and wellness is defined as the combination of complimentary and conventional health approaches in a coordinated manner. This certificate program provides students with an opportunity to learn about behavioral processes that activate and integrate the process of living wellness. Healthcare professionals are first humans who often struggle with the same questions their patients do, so it is beneficial that healthcare professionals understand experientially the lived experience of integrating wellness. This program straddles both the personal and professional aspects of integrative wellness. Research has revealed that living well is deliberate creation of health behaviors that unfold through a process involving three stages of behavioral development. Those stages include Awakening a Vision of Wellness, Integrating Strategies, and Living Wellness. Students will study and progress through these stages while participating in this certificate program. The Integrative Health and Wellness Certificate prepares students with the foundational skills to understand the behavioral process for implementing long-term health and wellness goals that sustain life-changing behaviors. Certificate Program consists of the 5 courses outlined below: Cultivating Resilience & Community Recovery Learning Processes in Health Behavior Living Wellness and Leadership Strategies in Wellness Stress Management
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Integrative Nutrition
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Integrative Nutrition involves dynamic and comprehensive knowledge and skill in nourishing oneself well. By understanding the principles of nutrition, the gut and brain connection- interaction relationship, and possessing the skills to nourish oneself properly individuals are able to support themselves and their families for optimal health and wellbeing. Nutrition plays a significant role in personal change and wellbeing and cannot be disregarded in its value in healthy living. Learn the secrets of intuitive eating and start building a new relationship with your body as you participate in this program. Certificate Program consists of the 5 courses outlined below: Culinary Medicine Eating Psychology Introduction to Nutrition and Health Mind Over Mealtime-Nutrition and Mental Health Your Glorious Gut – Introduction to the Human Microbiome |
Interprofessional Team Leadership for Allied Health Professionals
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This program has been developed to meet the rising demand for interprofessional leadership and collaboration within the healthcare setting. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the critical necessity for professionals with the requisite competencies that enable them to “cooperate, collaborate, communicate, and integrate” effectively in acute response situations. Additionally, several recent studies have corroborated the WHO’s call by demonstrating highly efficient and effective, execution of coordinated and pre-planned patient centered, interprofessional health care management during acute situation response. Acute Response situations include but are not limited to violence prevention and mitigation, mass casualty emergency response, and disaster preparedness. Identified core competencies include interprofessional teamwork, leadership, communication, ethics, and roles and responsibilities for collaborative practice. This certificate program has been developed to meet and exceed the basic identified competencies for interprofessional response. Upon completion of this program individuals will be prepared to coordinate interprofessional collaboration and response in the healthcare setting. Certificate Program consists of the 5 courses outlined below: Foundations of Leadership Understanding, evaluating, and exercising effective leadership requires attention to collaboration, social influence, and persuasion. In this course students will explore the core concepts and qualities of effective collaborative leadership and team building. Identifying what works when potential leaders are able to successfully facilitate guidance and team development and what goes wrong when potential leaders lack any ability to command the attention, respect, or effort of others. This course examines principles of building highly effective teams by analyzing the variety of interrelated practices underlying group dynamics. Students will combine learning through hands-on situations and contemporaneous experiences in a team-based exercise. Leadership is not a solo activity. Leadership only happens through others. Emergent leaders commonly begin with leading in the team sphere. Leading teams involves managing different personalities, cultures, conflicting political agendas, and varying skill levels while simultaneously securing resources and managing expectations of senior executives or other stakeholders internal or external to the organization Interprofessional Communication Interprofessional Team and Group Dynamics Social Competence in the Workplace The intention of this course is to provide students with the ability to cultivate successful working relationships and interactions with individuals and groups from other countries and cultures; either face‐to‐face or in virtual contexts. Personal and Professional Ethics This interprofessional ethics course involves exploring basic knowledge and skills in ethical theory and reasoning, professional ethics, interprofessional approach to health care decision-making, goals of health care, illness experience, and other topics of concern. In addition to personal exploration, students will have an opportunity to practice communication, reflection, listening, and reasoning in the moral and ethical dimensions of health care in order to deliver effective health services within an ethical framework.
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Plant Medicine
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Plants heal and restore our bodies, balance our emotions, and revitalize our spirits. Our certificate program in Plant Medicine will guide students in developing knowledge and skill utilizing the most effective and therapeutic plants while gaining a deeper understanding of how to use and prepare common plants. This will include harvesting, processing, and storing herbs for personal use. Additionally, students will develop skill in making formulations of basic decoctions, infusions, personal care products and using culinary herbs for improving the taste and health benefit of foods. Certificate Program consists of the 5 courses outlined below: Culinary Medicine Global Remedies Introduction to Herbal Medicine Medical Herbalism Plant Medicine Basics |
Virtual Health
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Virtual Health, also referred to as telehealth and digital health is the future of health care delivery – and the future is here now! You can no longer put it off. Virtual health utilizes the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to broaden access to healthcare to rural and under-served areas, to meet the demands of the aging population, to increase efficiency while reducing costs, and to enhance patient safety, quality of care, patient satisfaction, and patient outcomes. As telehealth continues to expand, there is an emerging need for trained, skilled professionals who will efficiently and effectively deliver telehealth services. This certificate program will provide training and skills for you to confidently coordinate virtual encounters with patients. Certificate Program consists of the 5 courses outlined below: Introduction to Virtual Health The emphasis of learning will be to investigate ways in which technology can be utilized to bridge healthcare disciplines and provide a cohesive interprofessional dynamic in service of the patient and healthcare community. Students will also explore how the inclusion of virtual technology within a health care environment impacts information privacy and security standards as well as the legal and ethical considerations. Developing Digital Presence Health Literacy and Education Dynamic Communication Healthcare Ethics |
Workplace Violence Prevention and Management
![]() | Workplace Violence Prevention and Management |
Workplace violence is a rare situation but can be prevented by taking certain measures to ensure your workplace is non-violent or that appropriate types and levels of response occur when needed. Improvised response to workplace violence can have disastrous results. Make sure your company and workforce are able to respond proactively and accurately to violence so you can prevent violence or respond quickly in the event of a violent incident and minimize the possibility if causalities. If you can save a life—or many—the return on investment is significant. Certificate Program consists of the 5 courses outlined below: Action Awareness Violence Prevention Dynamic Communication Interprofessional Team Leadership for Active Response Introduction to Public Health and Emergency Preparedness Uncovering Your Moral Compass: Personal and Professional Ethics |