This interactive, online study guide is designed to help you learn about pre-exercise health screenings and how to use them. It is supplemented by the Pre-Exercise Health Screening Guide course text and the HealthScreen software program on CD-ROM. The study guide includes a glossary of key terms (hyperlinked to the lessons) and a list of common medications with which the practitioner should be familiar. The online study guide will help you understand the rationale for screening people before you design exercise programs for them, and it will show you how to use nationally recognized guidelines and protocols to assess exercise risks. In working your way through the study guide, you will assume the role of a newly hired assistant manager at an insurance company's fitness center. You will spend a "week" with a virtual mentor (Steve) who will introduce you to clients and ask you to interact with them as you would in a real-life situation. Your mentor will lead you through the following situations and exercises: Day 1: First Steps -- You review information about your first four clients, look at their exercise goals, and decide what the first step is that you'd take with each of them. Day 2: Screening Purpose -- You meet the four clients, and Steve asks you to describe how you'd respond to their requests to start exercise programs. Steve outlines three important questions that you should be able to answer when you begin working with a client. Day 3: Screening Stages -- At this point, Steve asks you to consider what the areas are that a pre-exercise health screening should address; that is, what is the most important information you need to have about clients before you test or design exercise programs for them? Day 4: Risk Factors -- Steve introduces you to the ACSM concept of stages of risk. In doing matching exercises, working your way through the animated flowcharts, and reading from your text, you become thoroughly familiar with the ACSM stages. Day 5: Client Screening -- On Day 5 you'll analyze pre-screening questionnaires for each of your four clients and you'll decide which risk category each client belongs in. Then, for each client, Steve will ask you to answer the three important questions discussed on Day 2. You'll meet six new clients and administer and analyze pre-exercise their screenings. In addition, Steve will ask you to practice administering and analyzing pre-exercise screening by doing an at-home assignment. You'll screen friends and family members, and then you'll analyze the results. You'll compare your results with those produced by the HealthScreen software program. Finally, you'll take the online course test, which covers material from the interactive study guide and from the course text. System Requirements This course is designed to work best when your computer and Internet browser are configured to the following technical requirements and setup specifications: Internet Explorer 5.5+ (Windows), Netscape Navigator 7.1+, Mozilla 1.7+, or Firefox 1.0+. Computer monitor preferences set for 640 X 480 resolution or larger. Adobe Flash Player version 5+. To download the free Flash Player, click on the button below. Browser pop-up blockers disabled. Back to the Online Education Center.