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Update - August 15, 2002

PACE Canada is now offering "Online Learning Modules" to accompany both its physical activity and its nutrition counseling kits. The PACE Canada Online Learning Modules provide comprehensive training in the key concepts surrounding physical activity and nutrition counseling. Access to the PACE Canada Online Learning Modules is free of charge to all purchasers of PACE Canada kits.

The PACE Canada Online Learning Modules takes health care providers step by step through six important areas:

Physical Activity
Learning Module		 Nutrition
Learning Module
1. Introduction 1. Introduction
2. Health Benefits of Physical Activity 2. Benefits of Healthy Eating
3. Using PACE Canada 3. Using PACE Canada
4. PACE Canada Implementation 4. PACE Canada Implementation
5. Key Physical Activity Concepts 5. Key Nutrition Concepts
6. Counseling Special Populations 6. Nutrition and Older Adults

At the end of each section, users are required to complete a review quiz to ensure that the material in that section has been understood. For more information about PACE Canada online learning modules, please visit our training page.


PACE Canada - January 4, 2001

PACE Canada was launched at the Family Medicine Forum in Ottawa on October 18, 2000. The launch was accompanied by a well-attended PACE Canada training session conducted by Dr. Storm Russell, the PACE Canada Project Manager and Senior Researcher at the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute, and Dr. Bill Mackie, a Vancouver Family Physician.

The popularity of PACE Canada is well-founded. Although most physicians are aware of the health benefits of physical activity and nutrition, no comprehensive counseling package has been available to Canadian physicians, until now. PACE Canada provides the necessary tools and training to guide physicians and other health-care professionals through the process of counseling their patients to a more healthy and active lifestyle.

For more information about the PACE Canada launch, please visit the article written by Web MD at the following link, http://health.msn.ca/content/article/3207.786

Several new PACE Canada activities are planned for the year 2001:

  1. An online training module is in the process of development. This will enable health-care providers across Canada the opportunity to receive the proper PACE Canada training regardless of geographical location.

  2. A research study of the PACE Canada materials is being conducted in collaboration the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit's "Heart Health Initiative" to examine the long term efficacy of PACE Canada over the next two years.

  3. PACE Canada training sessions will be conducted in various communities across Canada. Please link to our Training Program area for more information about dates and locations of training sessions.

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