WCIT offers three courses designed to build your injection skills so you can start practicing what you’ve learned first thing Tuesday morning.
When you register for your course you will get access to 6-8 hours of online pre-course learning that will prepare you for the three-day intensive, in-person course. All of our courses are small, with at least one instructor for every four registrants. We focus on practical, hands-on learning while keeping didactic learning to a minimum.
We are committed to teaching evidence-based, safe, and accurate injection therapies. Ultrasound-guided injections improve safety, accuracy, and efficacy. While we offer both ultrasound and landmark streams in our Advanced Injection Therapy courses, we believe ultrasound guidance will (and should) become the standard of care. To ensure you get plenty of time learning to scan, scan, and scan again, we have at least one machine for every 3-4 learners.
If you’re a BC Naturopathic Doctor and you want Advanced Injection Therapy (AIT) training, then you must start with the Peripheral Skeleton (Part A) course, which will give you CNPBC certification to start injecting the peripheral skeleton with PRP, prolotherapy, cortisone, and hyaluronic acid. If you’re a BC ND and you’ve already taken Part A, then you can retake Part A or take the Axial (Part B), either in the ultrasound or landmark stream.
Both the Part A (Peripheral) and Part B (Axial) courses include 2 days of hands-on learning and a half-day in the cadaver lab. Cadaver lab injection training is invaluable for cementing the skills you’ve learned in the first two days of training. It gives you the opportunity to freely inject without worrying about making a mistake and to practice your landmarking and/or ultrasound scanning skills.
In both the Peripheral and Axial courses, we provide a suite of supporting information and handouts so you have the resources to know what to order, how to mix injection solutions, prepare PRP, prolotherapy, and cortisone, when to choose what to inject, how to chart, and have the pertinent handouts for your patients’ post-injection care.
We also offer a stand-alone myofascial course that teaches perineurial injection therapy, neural therapy, and trigger point injections for the upper and lower body. This course does not teach ultrasound and does not include the cadaver lab, although you can attend the cadaver lab separately. The myofascial course is not attached to any CNPBC certification and can be taken before or after the AIT training.
If you practice outside BC you can take any of our courses in any order you choose, although we do recommend starting with either the myofascial or peripheral skeleton courses first to help you build your injection skills before learning to treat the spine.
It is our goal, regardless of which course is right for you, to teach you the fundamentals of injecting so that you can safely apply what you’ve learned with your patients right away. While developing expertise in procedural injection medicine takes years to refine, it is our goal that you will leave your WCIT course with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to begin your injection practice immediately.