Dear knowledgeable and wisefriends,
these new requirements mean a vast waste of talent and knowledge and skills and good LC's
In my neck of the world the RNbased IBCLCs are not definitely the best IBCLCs (putting it mildly and diplomatic). Of course in both RNbased and non-RNbased IBCLCs are the good, the bad and the ugly, and I will not be heard declaring RNbased IBCLCs to be not good, but to be a good or exellent IBCLC RN or MD or other (para)medic credentials are not a requirement and they might even, sometimes stand in the way of being exellent as an IBCLC.
Now, don't you'll start shouting and shooting at me, I'm talking numbers here, not individuals!
Talking persons: I get, on a quite regular basis, clients who have been seen/treated by multiple RN/MD/HCP-based LCs with no or even somtimes negative results, and I am in many cases quite able to help them out, for instance by spotting overlooked oral variations, leading away from overdiagnosed and overtreated thush and things like that. Just did one of those this morning and will tend to another one later this day.
Warmly,
Gonneke, IBCLC in PP (based upon Kindergarten/groundschoolteacher and 25 years of LLLL) and LC lecturer in southern Netherlands
Twitter @eurolacpuntnet
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>From: Amy West <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Monday, August 8, 2011 4:53 AM
>Subject: Re: IBCLE 2012 requirements - continuing ed requirements
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>Well said, Jennifer.
>
>And hey, I'm American, living in the US, and the new requirements
>effectively ended my prospects for taking the exam. The vast change in
>requirements is a worldwide problem, as far as I'm concerned.
>
>Amy
>Amy West, CLC (who was 165 clinical hours toward sitting the exam via
>Pathway 3 when the requirements changed and my mentor opted not to
>recertify, leaving me mentor-less and ending my plan to sit the exam in
>2011. Hence the 'CLC' after my name, that will likely never expand to
>'IBCLC' after the change in requirements between 2011 & 2012!)
>
>On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Sharon Craig Economides <
>[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> > Aren't we an International credential? It appears to me that Americans
>> are
>> > completely unaware that the 2012 guidelines, while, IMO a pointless, but
>> at
>> > least potentially attainable exercise in clambering to be accepted by
>> people
>> > we should not care to be accepted by, are actually impossible criteria in
>> > many other countries.
>> >
>> >
>> Jennifer et al,
>>
>> I live in Afghanistan and have the same concerns. I had hopes of creating
>> a
>> lactation consulting course here, with the dream of some of the students
>> eventually being able to take the exam. However, with the added
>> requirements it will be nearly impossible unless the program includes all
>> of
>> the additional courses that are required.
>>
>> --
>> Sharon Craig Economides, LM, CPM, MMid, IBCLC
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