NCD Academy

NCD Academy is a new, online, on-demand certificate programme, developed by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), on core competencies and promising new methods to screen for and prevent the group of NCDs that unnecessarily claim the greatest number of lives today. In addition to spanning beyond cardiovascular disease for a more inclusive offering, NCD Academy will make prevention education at the ACC open-access for the first time to reach providers in low- and middle-income countries where the NCD burden has accelerated the fastest and countermeasures are most needed.

Whether you are a provider yourself, an advocate, or a policy maker, we invite you to join us in bringing this important resource to those individuals who are the lynchpin to widespread preventive health care services for NCDs: primary care doctors, internists, and general practitioners, as well as the nurses and community health workers at their side.

Key Features

Digital & on Demand: NCD Academy may be downloaded for iOS and Android or accessed via desktop at ncdacademy.acc.org. Individual lessons may be downloaded and completed offline.

Practice-Based Learning: Lessons are designed to present evidence and care recommendations in a variety of formats including video and text animation, and courses embody similar variety in how learners test their knowledge. interactive games such as Jeopardy are incorporated throughout the online classroom.

Global Vision on Care: NCD Academy content is overseen by an advisory committee of international experts in prevention to promote a curriculum with broad applicability. In areas where there are diverging schools of thought on NCD management, course lessons acknowledge and compare these different approaches.

Localized Content: Following the launch courses in English, versions in other prominent global languages including Spanish and Chinese will be released starting summer 2020.

Learner Recognition: Following lessons, NCD Academy courses close with a rigorous cumulative assessment covering all learning objectives. Participants who pass this final exam will receive a digital badge from the ACC that may be shared on social media, embedded in resumes, or printed.