Become a Registered Orthomolecular Health Practitioner (ROHP)
Qualify for a ROHP or Registered Nutritional Consultant Practitioner ( RNCP) / What this? ⓘ
Course Outline
ROHP / RNCP Qualifying Program / Developed for Health Professionals
The Advanced Nutritional Medicine and Sports Nutrition Specialist Program from GIMA are comprised of 6 courses listed on this page. Review the complete list of courses with a detailed description by clicking on the provided link. There is also a 7th module where health professionals enrolled in the program are required to complete an example of case studies and a final assignment.
Course Included
Length: 22 hours
Subjects:
- Essentials of Nutrition and Metabolism Part 1
- Essentials of Nutrition and Metabolism Part 2
- Theories of Aging
Length: 22 hours
Subjects:
- Brain Development and Neurodegenerative Diseases (Alzheimer’s disease, Dementia, Parkinson’s, MS, ALSA) (5 hours)
- Neuropathies, Concussion, and Nervous System Toxicity, Autism (3 1/2 hours)
- Nutritional Medicine and Mental Health Disorders (3 1/2 hours)
Length: 21 hours
Subjects:
- Cardiovascular
- Diabetes, Pre-diabetes, and Blood Sugar Irregularities
- Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases
- Osteoporosis
Length: 21 hours
Subjects:
- Liver Diseases
- Kidney Diseases
- Essentials of Pharmacology
- Blood Tests, Biomarkers, and Longevity
Length: 20 hours
Subjects:
- Female and Male Reproductive Health Issues
- Sports Medicine Part 1
- Sports Nutrition Part 2
- Weight Management and How to Run a Weight Management Program
Length: 20 hours
Subjects:
- Adjunctive Nutritional Management of Cancer and Cancer Prevention
- Gastrointestinal Diseases (Celiac, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Diverticular Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome etc.)
- Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Assessment of the Patient and Patient Programming
- Fast-Track Program- Receive 1,000-hour credit for academic achievements. The International Organization of Nutrition Consultants (IONC) has given health professionals a 1,000-hour credit in recognition their previous training.
- Earn the Credentials, Credibility, and Recognition that come with becoming a Registered Nutrition Consulting Practitioner
- Minimize the impact on your career, your family, and your lifestyle. The RNCP qualifying program can be completed online, on-demand, anywhere, anytime, on any device at your own pace
- The Global Integrative Medicine Academy Advanced Nutritional Medicine and Sports Nutrition Specialist / RNCP qualifying program provides you with everything you require to make nutritional consulting a successful part of your practice.
Why ROHP / RNCP
QUALIFYING PROGRAM
Many Health Professionals are interested in earning a recognized designation and expertise in the areas of evidence-based Clinical, Metabolic, Sports and Orthomolecular Nutrition. The recent ruling from the IONC now enables Regulated Health Professionals to achieve the RNCP or ROHP designations by completing the 100-hour, online, video lecture, Continuing Education program, offered by the Global Integrative Medicine Academy
Health Professionals can now earn the recognized RNCP or ROHP designations and become an expert in clinical nutrition, sports nutrition, as well as orthomolecular and metabolic nutrition, by completing the six module, web-based program
- Completion of the entire program qualifies you to obtain the Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner (RNCP) and Registered Orthomolecular Health Practitioner (ROHP) designation(s), from the International Organization of Nutritional Consultants (IONC www.ionc.org). Upon joining the IONC, you will qualify for an official RNCP/ROHP registration number, which is honored by various employee group plans for reimbursement of nutritional counseling services
- The program is a series of video lectures (approved by the IONC) that also includes a complete set of digital course notes, and all power-point slides (in pdf format). Additional textbook reading is also required. Online exams are required throughout the program, along with several assignments to meet the IONC requirements.
- The IONC is presently in negotiations with the government to form a Registry of all RNCP/ROHP practitioners with a medium-range goal of becoming a full-fledged Regulated Profession. This is approximately where Naturopaths were in their emergence 15-20 years ago. This program enables regulated health professionals to acquire recognized status in the field of nutritional and lifestyle medicine and sports nutrition; areas of great importance to patient health, healing and healthy life expectancy.
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Completion of the program also earns you two certificates of completion from the Global Integrative Medicine Academy, which include:
- Advanced Nutritional Medicine – certificate of completion
- Sports Nutrition Specialist- certificate of completion
A Nutritional Certification Program Design
Exclusively for Health Professional
- Fast-Track Program- Receive 1,000-hour credit for academic achievements. The International Organization of Nutrition Consultants (IONC) has given health professionals a 1,000-hour credit in recognition their previous training.
- Earn the Credentials, Credibility, and Recognition that come with becoming a Registered Nutrition Consulting Practitioner
- Minimize the impact on your career, your family, and your lifestyle. The RNCP qualifying program can be completed online, on-demand, anywhere, anytime, on any device at your own pace
- The Global Integrative Medicine Academy Advanced Nutritional Medicine and Sports Nutrition Specialist / RNCP qualifying program provides you with everything you require to make nutritional consulting a successful part of your practice.
Become The Expert
You Always Wanted To Be
In The Vital Area Of Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine
Enhance your skills and confidence when addressing nutrition, exercise and supplementation recommendations to patients in the following instances:
Answer questions about how drugs affect the body, and confidently explain strategies that can be used to enable their physician to lower the drug dosage of high-risk medications or eliminate the need for certain drugs via the use of targeted nutrition and lifestyle medicine
Help your patients improve the management of existing health conditions via evidence-based nutrition, supplementation and exercise interventions
Develop an expertise in drug-nutrient interactions to ensure your patients are using the safest approach to supplementation, and helping to identify patients who are at risk via their own self-medication (supplementation) practices.
Help your patients decrease risk of degenerative diseases, enhance their longevity index and healthy life expectancy
Help your patients optimize their genetic health potential and reverse key aspects of the aging process to preserve a highly functioning body and mind for as long as possible, using natural interventions.
- For Healthcare Professionals Only
- Out of Box Nutritional Medicine Consulting
- Qualify for ROHP
- Online on-demand
- Anywhere, anytime, on any device
- No time limit (Complete at your own pace)
- 14+ Forms templates, sample reports and letters
- Lifetime access to all course material and updates for graduates
- Developed for busy healthcare professionals:
- Medical Doctors
- Registered Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Chiropractors
- Physiotherapists
- Registered Massage Therapist
- Kinesiologist
- Osteopath