Rachel,

  Regarding doing an inservice for the peds residents...  Perhaps you
already know this, but the American Academy of Pediatricians has a
curriculum designed for pediatric residents/ other MDs.
http://www.aap.org/breastfeeding/curriculum/.  And I'm sure you already know
about the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.
  Are there are of the residents or faculty who are especially supportive of
breastfeeding?  Perhaps they could team up with you on educating the new
residents?

Best,
Sharon

-- 
Sharon Craig Economides, LM, CPM, MMid, IBCLC
from the US, now based in Afghanistan affiliated with a hospital that has a
Family Practice residency program



I've offered to hold a short inservice for the new peds residents on
> lactation physiology, if for no other reason than to make them aware that
> there is such a topic, and I'm hoping the peds dept will take me up on it.
> If we are going to improve things we need to get them on board, even though
> they are mostly so young that my colleagues and I could be their parents or
> even grandparents.  They still have the power because fledgling
> pediatricians, with no curriculum on breastfeeding, trump experienced
> midwives with plenty of it.   It's not a turf war, it is a struggle
> about who defines what knowledge is.
>
> Rachel Myr
> Kristiansand, Norway
>
>
>

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