I think Kathy Auerbach is correct when she states nothing will really change
until bfg ed. is part of the undergraduate and post-grad ed of health care
professionals.  I have made  it a pointover the yrs to contact regional
institutions of higher learning about CE seminars.  I usually do something
for the School of Nursing in the UT system every year or so.  UTSan Antonio
 recently called to set something up in March.  Most states have CE
liscensing requirements and the CE planners are often looking for offerings.
 This is a good way to educate and 'recruit' breastfeeding advocates.
 However, I think undergrad. or med. school students are the place where this
information must be introduced.  My brother is on the med school faculty at
TX A&M and he told me that curriculum committees decide what will be taught.
 There is already a crowded curriculum at most med schools, and some jealousy
about not dropping things already in.  There is a nutrition segment, and he
thought this might be the place where room could be made (perhaps by edging
out some of the time spent on ABM teaching.)  I think that I am going to
participate in an effort with some other folks from around here  to see if
maybe there is a way to get some bfg management in that program.  I also find
that my clients constitute a natural resouce pool of change agents.  I often
mention to professional clients (some of whom, Austin being a university
town, have teaching posts in the school of nursing, or are docs, etc.) that
maybe they can do something to prevent probs. like they've had by working to
better train people they over-see.
Barbara Wilson-Clay, IBCLC, Austin, Tx