> Along another line, my partner at work and I (she has 10 years of
> experience
> and I have 5 years as lactation specialists) are going to apply to sit for
> the IBCLC exam nest July.  We have both taken the UCLA CLA course
> and she has
> done an additional preceptorship program.  How do we study for
> the exam?  We
> don't really want to take an expensive course, are there any study manuals
> available, or maybe on-line study courses? TIA.

Andrea,

I did not take any formal courses to prepare for the exam.  I went to as
many conference CERP sessions as I could and read Lactnet regularly.  In
addition, I had a study partner and we met weekly for the 8-9 months prior
to the exam to talk and review.  What we did was to take a topic, breast
A&P, for example, and I would read about it in Lawrence, she would read in
Riordan and Auerbach and we would compare notes. We did this for all
chapters in those 2 books.

We also purchased a sample test and prepared study guide.  They were
helpful, but not essential.  We borrowed a set of slides from a local LC and
reviewed those.  We also volunteered to speak at a couple of LLL conferences
in the hopes that preparing to speak would help reinforce the material we
were learning (it did).

That's about it!

Good luck,
Kathy

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Kathy Koch, BSEd, IBCLC
Great Mills, MD
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