One thing I forgot to add:

The crux the wider implications of these new requirementis that there will
be less competent IBCLCs out there to help moms.  More people will take
sub-IBCLC courses like the CLC and CLE.  Personally, I find this to be
downright dangerous:  in no way does a one-week course with literally no
live clinical element qualify someone to be a lactation counselor who will
work with dyads as "an LC." But, people will take that course and walk away
feeling that they *are* qualified to do this, and moms won't know the
difference.

Amy

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Elizabeth Brooks <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Lisa -- Please please please send your question directly to IBLCE.  They
> need to know that folks who are reading their website, and considering
> taking the exam, are walking away with the impression that you have:  that
> only graduates of a medical-training program can now sit the IBLCE exam.
>
> I find your question particuarly poignant as we are reading so many
> articulate posts about the IBCLC straining and contorting to fit into the
> medical model.  I, for one, think the new IBLCE requirements are pushing
> IBCLC squarely into the medical arena, and farther still from the
> mother-to-mother roots from whence the profession was borne.  In the first
> year of the exm, 55% of the test-takers were LLLLs or other
> mother-to-mother
> counselors.  By 2000, only 5% came from such a background.  I am sure
> nothing has happened in the past decade to reverse the trend.
>
> A non-medical-school type can still become an IBCLC, under Pathway 3, but
> you will have to cobble together proof that you have taken many many
> classes
> in medical-type training, in addition to lactation-specific classes.  Then
> you have to go out an find someone to mentor and supervise your clnical
> training.  And you have to find insurance to cover you as a "stand alone"
> student.
>
> --
> Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA
> Wyndmoor, PA, USA
>
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