Welcome to the Officer Professional Military Education (OPME) Programme!

Serving as an officer within the Canadian Forces, you are a member of a unique group of people with a responsibility for learning professional leadership.

While your occupational training is rightly your focus in the early stages of your career, this must be supplemented by an equally important professional education component. As a junior officer, you are required to master your specific occupation, but you also have a professional responsibility to understand the culture of all components of the CF and to develop your analytical and critical-thinking skills.

OPME is a non-academic programme intended to acquaint the junior officer with a common body of knowledge related to the military profession. From this body of knowledge, officers can enhance their critical thinking skills and develop innovative responses to a myriad of issues. This is supported by a collaborative learning culture that begins the life-long appreciation for professional military development.