Motivational Interviewing
To continue offering high-quality education to health professionals across Canada, course registration will be $99 + GST starting June 1, 2026.
Previously funded by Live 5-2-1-0, this course is now supported by participant fees.
Supporting healthy behaviour change in families can be challenging, but there are things you can do to make your conversations with families more productive. This free, accredited, online course introduces Motivational Interviewing (MI): a collaborative, patient-centered style of communication that can help strengthen personal motivation to change.
Through a series of videos, self-reflective questions, exercises, and role-playing activities, this course will introduce you to the key elements of MI, and provide support and advice for successfully integrating MI into your clinical practice. Using the communication strategies and tools covered in this course, you will be able to help families explore their own reasons for change, and support them as they move effectively toward change. This course has been created in partnership with Live 5-2-1-0 at BC Children's Hospital.
This education was designed for all primary healthcare providers that work with children and their families.
The course is divided into four lessons:
- Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
- The Science of Behaviour Change
- Communication Strategies
- Motivational Tools
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Describe the key elements, strategies, and tools that make up motivational interviewing
- Begin approaching behaviour change in clinical practice through motivational interviewing
- Identify resources to support continued growth and motivational interviewing professional development
The Division of Continuing Professional Development, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee (CACME) to provide CPD credits for physicians. This activity is an Accredited Self-Assessment Program (Section 3) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program (MOC) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by UBC CPD. You may claim a maximum of 2.00 hours (credits are automatically calculated). This one-credit-per-hour Assessment program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 2.00 Mainpro+® credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity.