{"id":7294,"date":"2017-06-26T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=7294"},"modified":"2017-06-26T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T22:28:07","slug":"australian-sports-anti-doping-authority-asada-level-1-anti-doping-e-learning-course-free-online-anti-doping-course-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2017\/06\/26\/australian-sports-anti-doping-authority-asada-level-1-anti-doping-e-learning-course-free-online-anti-doping-course-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) – Level 1 Anti-doping E-Learning course. A free online anti-doping course everyone should do."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nat Sharp and Nash Anderson <\/strong>@sportmednews<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” – Hippocrates. <\/em><\/p>\n

T<\/em>o ensure clean, fair and safe sport, anti-doping measures are essential.<\/p>\n

ASADA (The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority) is an Australian Government statutory authority tasked to eliminate sports doping and to protect Australia\u2019s Sporting integrity. ASADA works with National Sporting Organisations to implement its policies, and has now created a free course to help educate the public. It is not only athletes who need to understand these policies. All support staff are required to not only understand, but to also follow anti-doping regulations. Support staff have a major role over not only what athletes are eating and drinking, but what supplements and medications are being taken.<\/p>\n

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Doping infringements are very serious with ineligibility periods ranging from 1-4 years. A sanction means that you are banned from competing in any sport sanctioned by a National Federation, coaching, working in sport and even training with your team. As anti-doping guidelines are constantly changing, so it is imperative that all of the athlete\u2019s network are aware of not only what is allowed or prohibited, but also how to check these substances before the athlete uses them.<\/p>\n

The ASADA Level 1 anti-doping course is a free e-learning initiative designed to educate athletes, support staff and the public. Although this course is for an Australian audience, the content is universal. The home page for the course is designed around the \u201cAustralian National Training Centre\u201d with eight destinations to visit, representative of eight sections to complete. To participate in the course, the participant navigates through each of these destinations is a module where a different anti-doping topic is explored with information, videos, examples and revision questions. The final destination is the main stadium where a final quiz on all topics is to be completed. The course takes around 60-80 minutes to complete, and progress is saved automatically. You do not need to complete the course in one sitting.<\/p>\n

The modules that are covered in the course include:<\/strong><\/p>\n