Lyme Literacy Course for Healthcare Practitioners (2024)

Lyme Literacy Course for Healthcare Practitioners

This course helps healthcare practitioners learn how to confidently assess and treat the chronic complex illness patient. This course is for MD, NP, ND, DO, PA and other functional medicine practitioners.

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Lyme patients deserve better care

Let's Elevate the Standard of Care for this patient population

This evidence based 10 module learning program, including monthly office hours, is designed to help you feel confident and supported in treating patients with Lyme and chronic complex disease.

Secure your spot in our first cohort. The first 5 modules have been published and the remaining 5 will be released in December 2023. There are only a limited number of spots left in the first cohort.

Learn how to put the latest research together into comprehensive treatment plans and improve your patient's health outcomes.

Course curriculum

Modules 1-5

    1. Module 1 - Slides

    2. Ticks and What They Carry

    3. IDSA vs ILADS - Treatment

    4. Modern Infectious Disease Principles - The Basics of Lyme and Tick borne Illness

    5. Evaluating Tick Exposure

    6. Diagnosis & Treatment - ILADS vs IDSA Guidelines

    1. Module 2: Slides

    2. Co-Infection Worksheet

    3. Evaluating Persisting or Relapsing Disease I - Chronic Lyme Disease and Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome

    4. Evaluating Persisting or Relapsing Disease I - Co-Infections

    1. Module 3 - Slides

    2. Chronic Disease Web

    3. Evaluating Persisting or Relapsing Disease II: Common Obstacles to Recovery

    1. Module 4 - Slides

    2. MSIDS Questionnarie - Dr. Horowitz, MD

    3. Mold Questionnaire - Dr. Jill Crista, ND

    4. Initial Visit - Lyme & Chronic Illness Chart Template

    5. Additional questions for patients querying Lyme Disease

    6. Patient Assessment - History Taking, Physical Exam, and Developing Your Initial Clinical Approach

    1. Module 5 - Slides

    2. Approach to Testing

    1. Module 6 - Slides

    2. Introduction and principles of an integrated treatment approach

    1. Module 7 Part 1 - Slides

    2. Part 1: General considerations for antibiotic therapy

    3. Module 7 Part 2 - Slides

    4. Part 2: Prescription/antibiotic treatments

    5. Combination Antibiotic Therapy Cheat Sheet

    1. Module 8 - Slides

    2. Part 1: Naturopathic Support for Common Complications and Side Effects of Pharmaceutical Therapies

    3. Part 2: Naturopathic Support for Common Complications and Side Effects of Pharmaceutical Therapies

    4. Rigors Example

    1. Module 9 - Slides

    2. Herbal Monographs - Commonly Used Herbs for Lyme and Co-Infections

    3. Herbal Therapy Cheat Sheet

    4. IV Therapy Examples

    5. Part 1: Naturopathic and Integrative Treatment Options: Optimizing Antibiotics and Individualizing Treatment

    6. Part 2: Naturopathic and Integrative Treatment Options: Optimizing Antibiotics and Individualizing Treatment

    7. Part 3: Naturopathic and Integrative Treatment Options: Optimizing Antibiotics and Individualizing Treatment

    1. Module 10 - Slides

    2. Sample Front Desk Scripts

    3. Sample Out of Office Autoreply

    4. Module 10 - Self Care for the Provider

    1. Case Studies Part 1

    2. Case Studies Part 2

    3. Slides for the acute and complex cases discussed at our open office hours

    1. Testing

    1. Climate Change and its Impact on Tick Habitat

    2. Resources we talked about in the video

Lyme Literacy Course for Healthcare Practitioners (1)

About this course

  • $1,597.00
  • Be part of the first cohort
  • 5 Modules available now
  • 5 additional modules will be released in December 2023

Feel confident treating Lyme and Chronic Complex Disease

This course will include 10+ modules with additional resources that will leave you feeling confident and well-equipped to treat Lyme and Chronic Complex Disease.

Join the first Cohort

Exclusive discount code and bonus 1-hour video call

The first 10 registrants will receive a 50% discount. Any full-price subscriptions prior to December 1, 2023 will receive a bonus 1-hour video call with Dr. Klassen and Dr. Mukai. This call can be used for case review, practice set up, or anything else pertaining to treating Lyme Disease and Chronic Complex Illness.Code: first10

Join the first cohort

Meet your Instructors

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Dr. Lynn Klassen, ND

Dr. Klassen maintains a focused practice on Lyme disease and chronic illness. As a Lyme Literate ND (LLND), Dr. Klassen is trained in the latest developments in the testing and treatment of these difficult diseases. Dr. Klassen served on the Board of Directors with British Columbia’s Naturopathic Doctors (BCND) between 2020 and 2023, volunteering to take on the role of Vice-President in her first year and was voted in as President of the Association for 2022 and 2023. She also has served on the BCCDC’s Community Antimicrobial Stewardship program’s Advisory Committee since 2021. Dr. Klassen has developed Canada’s first and only CNME accredited naturopathic Residency focused on Vector-borne Illness and Chronic Complex Disease. In addition, she participates in training naturopathic students by hosting preceptors as well as externs from the CCNM-Boucher’s student clinic.

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Dr. Carolyn Mukai, ND

Dr. Carolyn Mukai, ND is a graduate of Canada’s first and only CNME accredited residency program focused on Vector-borne Illness and Chronic Complex Disease at Tandem Clinic.Dr. Mukai has a deep fascination with the human body and how to optimize its function through targeted herbs, nutrients, diet, and lifestyle choices, specifically in the setting of chronic illness and infection. She considers herself to be a health detective, putting together the clues from a thorough health history to target the roots of chronic illnesses.Dr. Mukai believes that the best health care is individualized, transparent, and sustainable for the patient. She views her role in health care as an advocate, facilitator and educator so that ultimately the patient becomes well equipped to dictate their own health decisions and outcomes.

We’re passionate about helping patients with chronic illness and we’ve designed this course with you, the practitioner, in mind

We want you to feel confident in treating these diseases. We’ll help you navigate all of the latest research out there on testing and treatment options, dispel the myths and leave with the ability to put all of the information together into organized treatment plans for your patients.

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Learning Outcomes

By taking this course you will:

  • Develop greater depth, skill, judgment and confidence as a practitioner working with Chronic Disease patients

  • Deepen the ability to diagnose and treat Complex Chronic Disease, Lyme Disease and Chronic Infection

  • Deepen knowledge on Infectious Disease principles and the physiology of the immune system

  • Gain an awareness of available conventional and natural treatments for chronic complex cases

  • Gain an awareness of available conventional and natural treatments for chronic complex cases

  • Plus you will have access to practical resources and practice management tools which you will be able to take back to your practice to implement new treatment protocols for your patients

Grow your practice and help improve access to care for this growing patient population

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Don’t Go Through This Learning Journey On Your Own

As Lyme Literate NDs (LLND), Dr. Klassen, ND and Dr. Mukai, ND are trained in the latest developments in the testing and treatment of these difficult diseases. Each has over 8 years of training and experience with treating Lyme and complex chronic disease.

Dr. Mukai & Dr. Klassen’s practice focuses on combining traditional prescription based treatments with injection and IV therapies, herbal supplements, lifestyle counseling and individualized applications of various infectious disease protocols to improve outcomes for her patients.

Their clinic is the site of North America’s only Naturopathic residency focused on tick-borne illness and chronic complex disease. This is a CNME accredited residency program in partnership with Bastyr University.

Chronic illness and stealth infections are becoming more and more common and yet they remain unrecognized by many healthcare practitioners.

Deepen your ability to diagnose and treat Complex Chronic Disease, Lyme Disease and Chronic Infection

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Lyme Literacy Course for Healthcare Practitioners (2024)

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