Physical Exercise Consultancy Certificate
Strengthen the connection between health and physical activity
This advance course deals with the connection between physical activity, health and disease conditions. The course provides tools to adapt physical activity to the needs of different patients.
The advanced course for physical activity counseling deals with the relationship between physical activity and health conditions and patients at different ages in the population, and with physiological aspects of physical activity and the effect of physical activity on the body's system, the course will give you tools for adapting physical activity to the needs of the patients, according to their health status.
In clinical experience you will take part in counseling and training for physical activity for different ages in varying health conditions, you will learn to guide and direct physical activity adapted to the health status of patients in rehabilitation centers and you will be exposed to and experience different training methods.
As part of the collaboration with the sports administration, if before the start of the course you exercised for a whole year at a gym, you can at the end of it receive a certificate of physical fitness and health instructor and training for minors in a gym, subject to the approval of the gym where you exercised.
Curriculum
The study program includes 400 study hours, of which:
222 theoretical study hours
178 clinical experience hours
Prerequisite for applying to the program:
- You are citizens or residents of Israel.
- You have certified nurse license in the State of Israel.
- You have a bachelor's degree in nursing.
An accredited degree in nursing is a degree accredited by interinstitutional committee at the Salary and Employment Agreements Department at the Ministry of Finance. The list of degrees is updated from time to time in the circular: "Academic degrees accredited for salary purposes in the civil service, Clalit Health Services and Hadassah Medical Center and Shaare Zedek Medical Center - nursing" (Hebrew). - You have passed the selection examination for the advanced courses in nursing with a score of 70 or higher and the score is valid (3 calendar years from the date of the exam) or if you are entitled to an exemption from a selection examination.
Tuition
Registration fee
See the registration fee for advanced courses and selection examinations in the relevant annual circular (Hebrew).
Learn more about the tuition for advanced courses
State licensure examination
After graduation and in order to register an advanced course graduate in the nursing register you must successfully pass the State Nursing Board Licensure Examination.
The content and the structure of the exam vary from course to course and are adapted to the field and knowledge acquired in them.
In this course you will pass licensing exams using a simulation method.
The simulation licensing exams include representative clinical situations, simulating reality, in order to solve them you must use the psychomotor and communication knowledge and skills you worked on in the course.
The exam includes a transition between different stations (simulations), which are determined according to the characteristics of the field of training you studied.
Among the different stations:
- Execution station simulator (dummy).
- Simulation station versus a player.
- An investigation station about the simulation against a player.
- Analysis station describing a clinical situation using a video/audio tape (computerized).
- Knowledge stations in front of a computer – 50 multiple – choice questions ("American test)
The licensing exams in simulation for advanced courses are held at "Messer" – the National Center for Medical Simulation- the National Training Building for Health Workers at the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer.
For more details on the exam day and additional instructions for the licensing exam
Where can you take the course
| Course Location | Course Opening Date | Course Days | Contact |
| Sheba (Ziva Tal) | 06/02/2024 | Tuesday and Friday |