I start my internship this summer in internal medicine, and the department has given me tentative approval to do 4 weeks of breastfeeding medicine as my elective this year. I have spoken with a couple of local LCs and will likely be spending some time with them, along with probably one day a week with one of the breast surgeons (who told me flat-out when I saw her as a patient that I knew more than she did about breastfeeding and pumping issues -- so should be interesting!) I'm curious if anyone has participated in a program that had medical residents rotate through? Did you use a certain curriculum or have defined objectives? The medicine department here just wants me to give them a proposal with aims/objectives and detailed info about where I'll be and who I'll be working with when so they can make sure I'm actually putting in realistic hours of work. I'd appreciate hearing any suggestions for specific issues I might want to make sure I cover -- I imagine that the medicine department wants me to focus mostly on "mom" issues since I'll be doing adult medicine. One LC mentioned looking at the IBCLC clinical competencies, but that seems quite exhaustive given I'll only be doing this for 4 weeks. I'm *hoping* to have a good enough experience that I can organize something formal and try to make it an available 2 or 4 week rotation for the 4th-year medical students. Any ideas??? And as a sidenote, I start my anesthesiology residency next summer, and look forward to exploring more about how anesthesia in labor affects immediate and later breastfeeding success -- I know nothing as of yet so haven't been able to comment on the preceding discussions about this. :) Thanks so much, Sarah Reece-Stremtan, M.D. (who's hurriedly trying to finish her MPH and CLE before she starts working) George Washington University Washington DC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html