Choose the Learning Experience That Fits Your Needs
Whether you’re looking for a quick, focused introduction, a deeper learning experience, or an interactive opportunity to build practical skills, our Foundations and Essentials series courses, webinars, and workshops offer flexible options to support your professional development.
▥ Foundations Courses & Certificate Program
▣ Essentials Courses
▦ Educational Rounds (Webinars)
▢ Workshops
Foundations Series Courses
The Foundations series offers a deeper, more comprehensive learning experience for professionals building knowledge and practical skills in nicotine, tobacco, and vaping interventions. Courses are typically 13- 20 hours and include structured learning, applied activities, and faculty support.
Foundations courses are part of the TEACH Certificate Program.
Note: Courses may also be taken independently without completing the full certificate.
TEACH Certificate Program
The TEACH Certificate Program is an intensive, faculty-moderated online program in cessation counselling and applied health. Students develop knowledge and skills to understand the psychosocial context of tobacco use and provide comprehensive smoking cessation interventions.
Certificate requirements: TEACH Core Course + 2 TEACH Specialty Courses
Length:Dependent on course
Completion: Participants have 2 years to complete the program.
Fees:
- $1,325 CAD — Program Package (Core Course + 2 Specialty Courses)*
- $575 CAD — Core Course
- $525 CAD — Specialty Course
*A $300 discount is automatically applied to your final course registration in the TEACH Certificate Program.
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Essentials Series Courses
The Essentials series offers short, focused learning for professionals looking to build or refresh knowledge on specific topics and populations related to nicotine, tobacco, and vaping interventions. Courses are typically 1–4 hours and are self-directed, self-paced, and completed independently without faculty support.
Requirements: Not applicable. Students can take one or more courses.
Length: Dependent on course
Fee: Dependent on course
Choose Essentials if you are looking for:
- Short, focused learning
- Flexible, self-paced study
- Topic- or population-specific knowledge and practical tools
- Learning that can be completed independently
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Educational Rounds (Webinars)
TEACH Educational Rounds is a monthly webinar series for healthcare providers across all disciplines to enhance knowledge and skills in offering tobacco cessation interventions. Topics are indentified by the TEACH Community of Practice. Each session focuses on a particular area of tobacco dependence, such as treating specific patient populations, emerging research and evidence-based treatment guidelines.
Requirements: Must register and complete the pre- and post-webinar learning assessments to receive an accredited Letter of Completion.
Length: 1 hour from 12pm to 1pm EST
Fee: Free
Webinar descriptions & registration
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Workshops
The Foundational Health Educator Workshop is a two-day highly interactive workshop that is a recognized equivalent of the comprehensive health education program for Canadian Network for Respiratory Care's (CNRC) Certified Tobacco Educator (CTE) Credential. This workshop covers all essential core competencies including health promotion and education, communication, educational interventions, resource management, professional practice and program evaluation.
Requirements: There are no pre-requisites to take the Foundational Health Educator Workshop. However, for those interested in challenging the Certified Tobacco Educator (CTE) exam, you must also complete a CNRC-approved Tobacco Education Program (e.g., TEACH Core Course).
Length: Two days
Location: Virtual
Date and Time: Join the waitlist here to be notified of any future course dates.
Fee: $695 CAD (includes materials required for the workshop)
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