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Exercise Medicine

Exercise Medicine in Cancer Care


Description

This course is designed to develop knowledge and skills in the application of exercise medicine for assessment, prescription, delivery, and monitoring of exercise for people with cancer. Medical, nursing, and allied health professionals will benefit most from this course because it builds on your extensive knowledge of human biology, patient care and health systems. In this course we concentrate on developing skills and knowledge of exercise assessment, prescription, supervision, monitoring, exercise technique, motivating behaviour change, prescribing safe and effective exercise for people with cancer.

Content
  • Section 1 - Introduction
  • Course Outline
  • Websites and Contacts
  • Introductory Course Readings
  • Discussion of ESSA and ACSM Exercise Medicine Guidelines
  • Topic 1 - Introduction, Cancer Biology and Treatment
  • Lecture: Cancer Biology, Statistics, Diagnosis and Treatment (PPT slides)
  • Video - Part 1
  • Video - Part 2
  • Video - Part 3
  • Section 2 - exercise medicine in cancer management
  • Course Readings 2
  • Topic 2 - Exercise Medicine for Cancer Management
  • Exercise Medicine for Cancer Management
  • Video Part 1
  • Video Part 2
  • Video Part 3
  • Video Part 4
  • Video Part 5
  • Video Part 6
  • Video Part 7
  • Video Part 8
  • Quiz - Exercise Medicine for Cancer Management
  • Topic 3 - Principles of Exercise Prescription
  • Principles of Exercise Prescription
  • Video Part 1
  • Video Part 2
  • Video Part 3
  • Quiz - Exercise Prescription
  • Topic 4 - Principles of Resistance Training
  • Principles of Resistance Training
  • Video Part 1
  • Video Part 2
  • Video Part 3
  • Resistance Training Equipment and Systems
  • Video - Resistance Training Equipment and Systems
  • Quiz - Principles of Resistance Training
  • Topic 5 - Principles of Aerobic Training
  • Principles of Aerobic Training
  • Aerobic Training Equipment and Systems
  • Quiz - Principles of Aerobic Training
  • Topic 6 - Absolute and Relative Contraindications and Adverse Event Risk
  • Absolute and Relative Contraindications to Exercise Testing and Training
  • Reading: Adverse events of exercise therapy
  • Topic 7 - Patient Flow
  • Patient Recruitment, Onboarding and Flow
  • Video - Patient Recruitment, Onboarding and Flow
  • Topic 8 - Fitness and Health Assessment
  • Assessment of Neuromuscular Strength and Power
  • Assessments of Cardiorespiratory Capacity
  • Assessments of Functional Capacity
  • Assessments of Anthropometry and Body Composition
  • Topic 9 - Exercise Prescription
  • Targeted Exercise Prescription
  • Practical Session - Introduction to FitMed Patient Care Platform
  • Practical Session – Targeted exercise prescriptionsPage
  • Long term planning, prescription and periodisation
  • Topic 10 - Nutritional Considerations
  • Nutrition in cancer care
  • Topic 11 - Graduation to Self-Management
  • Graduation to Self-Management
  • Clinician, fitness professional and patient feedback
  • Case Studies
  • Case Study 1 - Ovarian Cancer
  • Case Study 2 - Prostate Cancer
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever
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