>If you really want to pursue this, then you should set up criteria.
My criteria for *names to use on The Exam* would either be people like Chele
who aren't widely published but who've had a significant and international
impact on the field; or people from other disciplines - Kathy D is a good
example; or people who are involved in some part of breastfeeding that one
learns about by participating in the field, not by reading Lawrence and R&A
- Chloe Fisher for instance.
I can think of at least 4 versions of the game:
1) the one in which we list the people *anyone* with a basic grounding in
human lactation should know - that's the authors of the major texts and the
widely published people, probably mostly current and not historical.
2) the game for candidates, in which we list names of people who *aren't*
widely published, or who come from other disciplines, or who represent the
past, but who have been key to the field. These are people whose names
don't jump out from the basic texts, but who really ought to be known by
anyone who's going to call herself an IBCLC.
3) the national or continental version, in which we list the people whose
presence in the profession at conferences, in ILCA, and as information
resources keeps the profession current, lively, and interactive *within that
country or continent*; or whose culturally-recognized presence represents a
step back rather than a step forward, at least within that country or
continent.
4) the one where we try to dig especially deep and find names that people
will recognize after a moment's thought - the ones we really, really ought
to know, but a version in which few of us will score 100% and most of us
will learn something.
I think we've been playing a combination of all 4, with little emphasis on
#3. Interestingly, we probably rely most heavily on the people in #3; I've
written to several of them in the past 24 hours for help with mothers.
I suppose to come up with a list for IBLCE, one would need first to combine
all 4 games, acknowledge that that's what we're doing, then eliminate, to
make sure we have an internationally balanced list of not-too-obvious,
not-too-3-ish names. I'd be happy to play off-list with anyone who wants
to...
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY
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