Ecorbit Academy, a subsidiary of Ecorbit Health aims to educate and improve the capacity of the health workforce. Learners from every country and through different universities have accessed courses from us. Our courses span from undergraduate-level pre-health sciences, nursing, and community health worker training through medical and public health graduate training, medical residency programs, and continuing medical education.
We offer health sciences courses with free certificates, including Medicine courses for physicians and other health providers, curricula for nurses with our partners across the world. We have also created an independent learning community at Ecorbit Academy to facilitate public health learners from a variety of settings worldwide. This public health training includes curricular threading related to substance use disorders and mental health issues in every course and offers a first-of-its-kind concentration, An Interdisciplinary Concentration in Substance Use Disorders, Mental Health, and Equity in Health and Healthcare. University partners who are currently piloting Ecorbit Academy free graduate-level public health courses have enrolled medical students. While at Ecorbit Academy, practicing physicians and other health workers study while continuing to work and treat thousands of patients around the world every year.
Our learning platform is not simply a cluster of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS), but expertly-created, competency-based courses that are cost-free, advertisement-free, barrier-free, and carbon-free. This model has been successfully tested in medical and public health arenas with students, and with community health workers and primary care physicians in Kenya and in other arts of Africa – showing identical knowledge gain with greater student satisfaction compared to traditional courses and positive effects on complex health worker behaviors (like counseling) and attitudes (like stigma). Our model also facilitates the creation of a global community of learning and practice.
Every course invites the learner to consider related addiction and mental health issues because substance use disorders affect 1 in 7 people, are caused by multiple factors, and create health concerns for the individual, family, and the community. Bringing awareness and training to all physicians and their teams regarding the need to assess, prevent, treat, and refer those who experience substance use disorders increases the numbers of people who receive help for substance use disorders and reduces stigma among health professionals so patients get the care they need.
Many learning communities adopt Ecorbit Academy materials, and we have the privilege of assisting professors from around the world as they adapt the courses for their students’ unique learning environments. Ecorbit Academy provides quality courses that other learning communities build upon, decreasing costs for students and learning communities with the goal of increasing the numbers of physicians and other health workers, and contributing to improved learning and health equity for all.
Our volunteer subject matter experts, course developers, advisory groups, and mentors, alongside the millions of experts who have generously shared their learning resources online, are providing this unprecedented opportunity for globally transforming health education.