Neurological Rehabilitation

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Update your knowledge and advance your clinical skills in neurological rehabilitation.

In this course, you will learn the latest best practices and clinical guidelines for the rehabilitation management of neurological conditions including Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia, stroke, brain injury, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease.

You will better understand these conditions and learn to develop an evidence-based rehabilitation treatment plan for them.

This online microcredential is designed for physical therapists, occupational therapists, nurses, kinesiologists, recreational therapists, therapy assistants and other rehabilitation professionals.

13 content hours are delivered over six weeks (35 educational hours).

We are now accepting registrations for the next course running February 17 - March 28, 2025.

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Course Goals

By the end of this microcredential, you will be able to:
  • Describe the pathophysiology and medical management of common neurologic conditions in Canada (Alzheimer’s Disease/dementia, stroke, brain injury, epilepsy, and Parkinson’s Disease).
  • Summarize the clinical presentations of common neurologic conditions.
  • Develop an evidence-based rehabilitation treatment plan for patients with common neurologic conditions, including using the latest technology.

COURSE HOURS

The course is approximately 1 credit equivalent (13 content hours). However, you should expect to spend 18-35 hours total including self study. 35 educational hours appear on the digital certificates that are issued after course completion.

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Course Instructor

Kim Dao, PT, DPT is a Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy with more than fifteen years of clinical practice in acute care, rehabilitation and outpatient settings.

She taught at the University of Alberta for over eleven years and is currently an Assistant Professor with the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Tufts University. Her teaching focuses on neuroscience, neuromuscular practice management, aging, complex conditions, prosthetics and orthotics.


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How to Apply

Please submit an application form then proceed to make the course fee payment at:

Application Form

Course Fee Payment

Online Course: $250 course fee.

A 100% refund of the $250 course fee is available to students who withdraw before the first day of the course. Withdrawal requests during the first 3 weeks of the course will be refunded 50% of the registration fee. After 3 weeks (mid-point of the course) no refund will be provided.

Format

This course is delivered 100% asynchronously meaning there is no requirement to be online at a specific class date and time. Participants can complete the learning activities in a place and time of their choosing. Content is accessible twenty four (24) hours-a-day from any location with an internet connection.

Assessment

There are no grades for this course. Instead, students receive a complete or incomplete score based on satisfactory completion of the course. To successfully complete the course students are required to work through all learning activities and achieve 60% on all the knowledge check quizzes at the end of each module. Students are given unlimited quiz attempts and can challenge these at any time throughout the course.

Recognition

Upon completion of each module participants will be issued a faculty digital certificate noting the number of educational hours.

Questions

Contact us at sdrefs@ualberta.ca.