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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