Course Overview

RESPTREC® is Canada's leading continuing education program which offers courses geared to all disciplines of health care professionals who are involved in chronic disease management.

RESPTREC Course Family

All courses are independently offered and can be completed in any order based on what is relevant to the participant.

RESPTREC® is the only program which has been reviewed and endorsed by:

The Canadian Thoracic Society
The Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals
The Family Physicians Airway Group of Canada

Development of the RESPTREC® courses has included expert representatives from all disciplines. The courses are robust, comprehensive, and align with current practice guidelines. Our courses are also approved by The Canadian Network for Respiratory Care (CNRC) as pre-requisite courses for the national certification exam.

RESPTREC® is an important resource for building and enhancing competencies, skills and knowledge towards becoming effective educators and valued members of an integrated environment of chronic disease management care. Our continuing education opportunities provide RESPTREC® students with lifelong mentorship and learning.

Online Course Structure

RESPTREC® provides learning that works for you.

All of our online courses consist of specific components which must be fulfilled in order to receive a diploma for successful completion. This diploma will be located in your learning centre profile for you to print or save electronically.

Course applications are reviewed and approved by RESPTREC® administration. Once course applications are approved a confirmation email will be sent indicating students can begin working on the online course.

Students have 6 months to complete online courses from the date of course approval.

Asthma, COPD, Education, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), Inhaled Delivery Devices (IDD), Severe Asthma, Spirometry, Spirometry Interpretation, and Spirometry Refresher

Features:

  • Login to RESPTREC using registration email and password
  • Side bar menu for easy navigation of course content
  • Visible course itinerary to easily track course progress
  • Independent learning activities (for select courses) to practice and apply course content
  • Chapter quizzes (for select courses) to assess comprehension and application of course content
  • Final quiz (for select courses) to assess comprehension and application of course content
  • Course assignments (for select courses) to assess comprehension and application of course content
  • Course evaluation

Approximate timeframe to complete courses:

  • Asthma, COPD, and Education: 15–20 hours
  • IPF: 10–15 hours
  • IDD: 5–10 hours
  • Severe Asthma: 5–10 hours
  • Spirometry: 10–15 hours
  • Spirometry Interpretation: 5–10 hours
  • Spirometry Refresher: 1.5–2 hours

Asthma, COPD, and Education

The Asthma, COPD and Education courses have the following additional requirements:

  • There are course assignments that include video of mandatory performance items. These assignments must be submitted for review by RESPTREC® faculty prior to course completion. Performance items will be marked by RESPTREC® faculty within three weeks of submission. Performance items must be demonstrated using a model (friend, family member, colleague, etc). Submitted videos will be retained for 1 year after the end date for the course.
  • Students that are planning on registering for a Canadian Network for Respiratory Care (CNRC) certification exam should ensure they have submitted all performance items well in advance of certification exam registration deadlines to allow time for faculty review (and resubmission if necessary). Please check the CNRC website for registration deadlines.

Spirometry

The Spirometry course has the following additional requirements:

  • There is a course assignment that includes video of a mandatory performance item. This assignment must be submitted for review by RESPTREC® faculty prior to course completion. The performance item will be marked by RESPTREC® faculty within three weeks of submission. The performance item must be demonstrated using a model (friend, family member, colleague, etc). Submitted videos will be retained for 1 year after the end date for the course.
  • There are several additional course assignments that require access to a spirometer and 3L calibration syringe (submission of 10 spirometry tests for marking, submission of a calibration verification for marking).

Spirometry Interpretation

  • There are no course assignments for the Spirometry Interpretation course but several chapter quizzes.

Spirometry Refresher

  • There are no course assignments for the Spirometry Refresher course only a final quiz.

Submitting videos, which is a requirement of select online courses (Asthma, COPD, Education, and Spirometry) requires a high-speed internet connection like fibre, DSL, cable or 4G/LTE with at least 1 Mbps (1000 Kbps) upload speed.

If you are unsure of your internet upload speed, you can perform a speed test at www.speedtest.net, or contact your internet service provider.

Submitted videos will be retained for 1 year after the end date of the course.

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As with other educational institutions, our program requires that each student complete assignments independently. Plagiarism, the use of material received or purchased from another person or prepared by any person other than the individual claiming to be the author, will result in an incomplete program status.

Adapted from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Policies and Regulations, 2007