Workshops & Training Cohorts
Paid educational workshops for clinicians, researchers, and students. These cohorts build evidence-literacy and appraisal skills — they are educational and do not authorize, certify, or credential anyone to practice.
About these cohorts
The American Society of Hirudotherapy is a nonprofit medical-education society. Our workshops and training cohorts are paid educational programs designed to help clinicians, researchers, and students read and weigh the hirudotherapy evidence base for themselves.
These cohorts teach how to find, appraise, and reason about published sources. They are educational programs about evidence and literature. They are not medical advice, and they do not instruct anyone to begin, change, or authorize any treatment.
What the cohorts cover
Each cohort is built around four educational modules. The emphasis throughout is on literacy and appraisal skills — reading the evidence well — rather than on clinical instruction.
Evidence literacy
How to read hirudotherapy-related literature critically — distinguishing mechanistic, preclinical, and human-evidence claims, and recognizing where regulatory clearance does and does not apply.
Protocol-retrieval reference
Navigating published protocols and reference materials so participants can locate the relevant source documentation rather than relying on memory or hearsay. This is a reference-skills module, not a directive to apply any protocol.
Safety & infection-control education
Educational overview of documented safety considerations and infection-control principles discussed in the published literature and public-health guidance.
Literature appraisal
Structured appraisal methods — study design, risk of bias, and grading frameworks — applied to the hirudotherapy evidence base so participants can weigh sources for themselves.
Format, duration & indicative pricing
Cohorts run part-time online so participants can join from any location. The figures below are indicative and are confirmed at the point of registration — they are planning estimates, not a fixed schedule or price list.
Introductory cohort
- Clinicians, researchers, and students new to the evidence base
- Approx. 4 weeks, part-time (indicative)
- Live online sessions plus self-paced reading
- Indicative: a modest per-seat fee, confirmed at registration
Applied appraisal cohort
- Participants who have completed an introductory cohort or have prior research-methods background
- Approx. 6 weeks, part-time (indicative)
- Live online sessions, small-group appraisal exercises, and self-paced reading
- Indicative: a higher per-seat fee than the introductory cohort, confirmed at registration
All durations and prices on this page are marked indicative and may change. Nothing here is a guaranteed offering until confirmed in writing at registration.
Accreditation status & what the outcomes mean
These programs are NOT accredited unless explicitly verified
- Our workshops and cohorts are non-accredited unless a specific accreditation is explicitly named and independently verified for that program. If no accreditation is stated, assume none applies.
- Course outcomes are strictly educational. Completing a cohort means a participant attended and engaged with the material — nothing more.
- Completion is not clinical authorization, certification, licensure, or credentialing. It does not qualify, permit, or entitle anyone to perform any procedure or to hold themselves out as certified.
- We do not award clinical titles or imply professional standing. Any continuing-education credit, where it exists at all, is limited to what is explicitly and verifiably stated for that specific program.
Scope of practice, licensure, and authorization to treat are determined entirely by each participant's own regulator, employer, and applicable law — never by attendance at one of our programs. We make no cure, treatment, or efficacy claims, and our cohorts do not constitute medical advice.
Register your interest
Cohorts open periodically with limited seats. To be notified when registration opens, or to ask about format and indicative pricing, contact us and mention “Workshops & Training Cohorts.” Registering interest is an enquiry only and carries no obligation.
We aim to respond to enquiries within a few business days. Seats, dates, and indicative fees are confirmed only in writing at registration.