Laurie says:
<<If IBLCE allows candidates to work with someone starting in May (prior to
taking first recert in July), then there will be other candidates who would
ask to 'stretch the rules' to maybe March, or have a mentor who has been an
IBCLC for 30 yrs but has never recertified, but is planning to, and it's
June?
Do you see where I am coming from? They have to draw the line somewhere.
What I am saying, and I don't think this will be a popular statement, is
that the candidate did not select a qualified mentor (one who had passed a
recert already). I am sure that finding a qualified mentor is not easy,
sorry.>>
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I think you've made some very good points, but I do want to mention a
couple of things -- for one, if someone has been an IBCLC for 30 years and
never recertified, then she is no longer an IBCLC, and hasn't been one for 25
years. And if she is planning to take the exam in July to "recertify",
she's not recertifying, she is starting over and has to jump through whatever
hoops are currently required.
Secondly, I was under the impression that the candidate was going to start
her hours with the mentor AFTER she had sat for the exam on July 26. In
which case, it is an interesting conundrum -- are you recertified after you
take the exam and pass it, or are you not recertified until IBLCE gets
around to grading ALL the exams and sending out the notices?
IF this mentor had chosen to recertify by CERPs -- which, if it is the
first time she is recertifying -- she could have done -- and she had sent in
all the paperwork and the fees by -- oh, say March 31 -- would she then be
recertified at that time? Or not until October 31 which is when her current
IBCLC expires?
Interesting discussion -- and very interesting thoughts about the
requirements for 2012.
I do find it interesting that they require biology AND A&P -- but not
microbiology which is far more pertinent to our field. Anatomy & Physiology
makes a lot of sense. Not biology so much. I've not taken biology since
high school, though I am an RN. I have had microbiology though.
Also, I'm not sure I understand why "Safety" for medical professionals
since a safety course is taught at hospitals and is particularly a hospital
concern -- and the course would vary from hospital to hospital as included
would be where the fire alarms are, and which doors close during a fire, and
what to do in case of a tornado, and that sort of thing. Ethics? Yes --
but how much ethics? If a 45 hour course teaches one hour of ethics, does
that count for the continuing education in ethics?
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA -- hoping to learn more about this at the
ILCA conference this summer.
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