COMPANY PROFILE
Business Name: Aprende Canada
Business Type: Sole proprietorship
Established date: March 4th, 2013
Location: Toronto, Canada
Website: www.aprendecanada.com
E-mail address: info@aprendecanada.com
Mission
To provide ultrasound continuing education opportunities so sonographers and sonologists can gain relevant and required skills to maintain and improve their proficiency level.
History
Aprende Canada started in March 2013 to offer another opportunity for continuing education for sonographers and sonologists.
It started as on-site training to now include worldwide online activities.
Founder/Owner—Leonardo Faundez
Leonardo Faundez is a registered Canadian diagnostic medical generalist and vascular sonographer with 20 years of experience in large and small healthcare facilities.
His studies include a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, a Bachelor of Adult Education degree, a Nuclear Medicine diploma, an Ultrasound diploma, a certificate on Supplemental Instruction, and a Master degree in Adult Education.
In his 10+ years of experience in adult education, he has taught and trained sonography students, radiology residents, radiology fellows, and other health care professionals in a variety of learning environments. In addition, he gained considerable experience in curriculum design and curriculum development, as well as in the creation of simulation training activities and innovative instructional tools, such as the creation of a scrotal ultrasound phantom.
He has presented at Canadian and American conferences presenting different topics in the sonography field. Furthermore, his articles on how to create a scrotal phantom was published in the Canadian Journal of Medical Sonography (CJMS) in 2011. At least one American and two Canadian schools have already implemented this idea as part of their curricula.
Leonardo is passionate about education and finding creative ways to help learners succeed.
Company Accomplishments
May 2020
- Aprende Canada releases 16 videos (Spanishversion) currently offered online.
January 2019
- SonoWebinars by Aprende Canada start to provide worldwide online education with CMES
October 2017
- Aprende Canada starts a partnership with the Ontario Association of Medical Radiation Sciences (OAMRS) to build a repertoire of Ultrasound Continuing Education courses on general, vascular and musculoskeletal scanning for distribution Canada wide.
March 2017
- Aprende Canada releases 16 videos (English version) currently offered online.
July 2016
- Aprende Canada starts educational collaboration with the Institute of Osteopathic Science to teach their students on cross-sectional anatomy using ultrasound.
August 2015
- Aprende Canada is appointed the development of an ultrasound program (curriculum development) by Pharma-Medical Science College of Canada.
2023 SonoWebinar Series
1. Role of a mobile sonographer
2. Update on fetal soft markers
3. Pediatric scanning for the general sonographer
4. Common (an uncommon) Accessory Muscles and Tendons I see in My MSK Practice Weekly
5. The role of the sonographer in POCUS
6. Upper extremity arterial sonography
7. Lower extremity arterial sonography
8. Pelvic floor ultrasound
9. Pediatric MSK topic TBD
10. TBD