I disagree....
The stringent rules about who may sit the exam favours health care
professionals and discriminates against those without formal health
qualifications. We talk ad infinitum here about how many health care
professionals of all varieties are ignorant about breastfeeding....some sit
the exam....they pass but remain quite ignorant. I've spoken to some. It's
scary!
On the other hand there are a whole variety of non-health care professionals
who are knowledgeable and passionate about breastfeeding (ie the lay
breastfeeding counsellors). Many of these people could sit and pass the exam
while sitting on their heads. However, it is now very difficult for these
people to sit the exam...the profession and mothers lose.
Karleen Gribble
Australia





> Kathleen, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree about your theory
> on the 96% pass rate for the IBCLC exam.
>
> I think the pass rate is so high because IBCLE maintains such
> stringent standards on who may TAKE the exam.  While I feel confident,
> at this point, that I could both pass the exam and function very
> usefully as an LC in a variety of settings, I still have to log a huge
> number of contact hours.  When I called to ask questions about the
> pathways for sitting for the exam, I was told by a very nice woman in
> the IBCLE office that they hold me and others like me to such a
> standard to ensure that we WILL pass the exam -- that the $485 or
> whatever it costs to TAKE the exam won't be wasted.
>

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