MEDICAL CANNABIS ONLINE COURSE
for Healthcare Professionals
Aim: To present what healthcare professionals need to know about Medical Cannabis. Empowering healthcare professionals to make sound clinical decisions; provide informed advice and education; support quality products and ethical enterprises; collaborate on essential research; and promote local and national policies that nurture the health and wellbeing of our communities, and the planet too. This course will be followed by further courses on herbal medicine for healthcare professionals.
Topics: Subjects covered include: history of use, legalities, botany, self-medication, traditional medicine, genetics, phytochemistry, pharmacology, side-effects, safety and toxicity, preparations, research, cultivation and economics. Therapeutics will include: first-aid use, primary healthcare, anxiety, pain, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, glaucoma, epilepsy, asthma, ADHD, CNS trauma, ASD, neoplasia, and neurodegenerative disorders including MS.
Approach:
- Integrative – presenting both the traditional wisdom and modern science of Cannabis as medicine.
- Best-evidence based – including published research, clinical experience, and traditional knowledge.
- Collaborative – delegates with knowledge and expertise are encouraged to contribute.
Cost: R1500
Sponsorship: Sponsored is available. Please email us with your motivation.
Cost includes: Access to online course, access to professional online community, CPD accredited certificate of completion.
