1 Day Primary Care Breastfeeding Medicine Course for Physicians and Other Providers – eCourse

The Best Deal for Medical Student and Resident Lactation Education!

Cost

Students: $20
Regular: $55
Includes access for 1 year

Overview

IABLE’s Primary Care Breastfeeding Course for physicians and other providers teaches prenatal breastfeeding education, intrapartum and early postpartum support, along with problem-focused management. It also covers differential diagnosis and management of the most common outpatient breastfeeding problems encountered by physicians and other providers who work with breastfeeding dyads. Lectures from January 2025.

Objectives

• • Gain knowledge and skills to counsel lactating families on benefits of breastfeeding and risks of artificial feeding
• • Describe how to support and protect breastfeeding and lactation immediately postpartum
• • Explain the differential diagnoses and management strategies for the most common breastfeeding and lactation problems that arise during lactation
• • Identify evidence-based resources for issues such as medications during lactation, patient education on breastfeeding, and problem-based breastfeeding and lactation support

Topic Outline

• • Components of human milk, risks of not breastfeeding
• • Policies and demographics
• • Anatomy and physiology of the mammary gland
• • Prenatal counseling
• • Positioning and attachment
• • Breastfeeding and lactation in the immediate postpartum period
• • Management of breastfeeding and lactation in the first week postpartum
• • Sore nipples and breast pain
• • Low milk production
• • Medications during lactation
• • Hyperlactation
• • Pump technology
• • Weaning

Accreditation

CMEs: The AAFP has reviewed Primary Care Breastfeeding Medicine Course for Physicians and Other Providers and deemed it acceptable for up to 7.25 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CERPs: This course has been allocated 7.25 L CERPs by IBLCE Long Term Provider #CLT 117-04.
IABLE has been accepted by International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners® (IBLCE®) as a CERP Provider for the listed Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) programme. Determination of CERPs eligibility or CERPs Provider status does not imply IBLCE®’s endorsement or assessment of education quality. INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF LACTATION CONSULTANT EXAMINERS®, IBLCE®, INTERNATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANT®, and IBCLC® are registered marks of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.

Nurse Contact Hours: According to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the continuing education hours approved by the AAFP and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ meet the requirement of formally approved continuing education hours and may be used as such for ANCC Certification renewal. https://www.nursingworld.org/certification/faqs/

Speakers

Anne Eglash MD, NABBLM-C, FABM, IBCLC
Anne Eglash MD, IBCLC, FABM, is a clinical professor with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. In addition to family medicine, she has been practicing breastfeeding medicine since 1994.

Dr. Eglash is a cofounder of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, the Medical Director and cofounder of the Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, and the Medical Director of the University of Wisconsin Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine Clinic. She has published many peer- reviewed articles on breastfeeding medicine and had been an associate editor for Breastfeeding Medicine Journal.

Dr. Eglash is founder and president of The Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education (IABLE), as well as a cofounder and the inaugural president of the North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine.

Kathy Leeper MD, NABBLM-C, IBCLC, FABM
Dr. Leeper was board certified in Pediatrics. She cofounded a nonprofit breastfeeding center called MilkWorks and has been practicing breastfeeding medicine exclusively at MilkWorks since 2001. She is the Vice President of the Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education (IABLE) and is the inaugural secretary for the North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine.

Conflicts of Interest
None

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