It has 10 lessons and about 6½ hours of video, with a workbook for each lesson. You have up to 28 days to finish. It costs C$495 (Canadian dollars).
Your shift schedule decides when you can sleep. The course teaches how your body clock drives sleep, and what to change first: the timing of light, sleep, meals and naps around your shifts. It covers circadian rhythms, why you can’t sleep, sleep hygiene, stress and drugs, chronobiotics, fixing a broken clock, and promoting circadian regulation at work.
Results
- First-responder service: In a Surviving Shift Work® program with first responders, 22 of the 25 participants who completed the follow-up survey (88%) reported better sleep quality afterwards (self-reported).
- Measured with wearables: After a program built around Surviving Shift Work® (the course, a personal sleep assessment and a one-to-one Q&A with Dr. Landry) at a professional services firm, the 17 participants with before-and-after data reached deep sleep 16 minutes sooner and slept 27 minutes more a night (about 3 hours a week), with significantly more deep and REM sleep and no loss of sleep efficiency; 15 of 17 slept longer. Uncontrolled 2024 pilot; Fitbits supplied by the client; data from up to two months before and up to three months after.
Results may vary depending on the changes you’re ready to make.
For BC paramedics and dispatchers
Surviving Shift Work® is funded by APBC (CUPE 873) for its members: BC paramedics and emergency dispatchers, and BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) staff, can take the full course free. Enrol through the APBC members area with your APBC or BCEHS email.
APBC has worked with fatigue experts since 2017. In 2018 it helped develop a two-day training program with Dr. Landry, piloted with key leaders including the employer, and Dr. Landry built the online course from it.
Read APBC’s announcement (April 2021) → (opens in a new tab)
The course teaches you the method. If you’d rather have Dr. Landry read your own nights, start with the Advanced Sleep Assessment below ($250). Sleep coaching and education, not a medical diagnosis. If you snore loudly, wake up gasping, or feel exhausted all the time, talk to your doctor first.
