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The NCD Academy is an eLearning platform that offers interactive lessons and practice for primary care providers, nurses, and internists, as well as young professionals in medical specialties. The courses focus on risk factors for today's major preventable diseases. The format allows participants to learn at their own pace using a phone, tablet, or computer. By completing the courses, participants can receive a certificate from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) that recognizes their knowledge of the course topics and commitment to disease prevention.<br /><br />Some of the topics covered in the courses include healthy habits and how to promote them in patients, guidelines and tools from prominent organizations in cardiovascular medicine for risk stratification and lipids management, understanding diabetes as a cardiovascular disease comorbidity, measuring and lowering blood pressure according to different guideline recommendations, understanding the different etiologies of stroke, and the latest evidence and measures regarding the use of aspirin for primary prevention.<br /><br />The NCD Academy offers its first course on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke prevention. The course is free to join and is supported by global partners. The website for the NCD Academy is ncdacademy.acc.org.

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NCD Academy

eLearning platform

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preventable diseases

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disease prevention

cardiovascular medicine guidelines

stroke prevention

free course