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Health e-Learning facilitates an online community, promoting international discussion and networking opportunities for healthcare professionals.

Health e-Learning is a wholly online education organisation with head office in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from where it serves the health and lactation community around the world.

Our wonderful team is very international. Please meet them below.

Our friend and colleague, Trudi Szallasi, was an online tutor with Health e-Learning from August 2005 until her untimely death from breast cancer in June 2008. Trudi was totally committed to helping mothers and babies to have a successful and happy breastfeeding relationship. She was a volunteer breastfeeding counselor with the Australian Breastfeeding Association, served as a Director on the National Board, and held the role of State president for 2 years. After qualifying as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) Trudi began a private practice, and ultimately became the President of the local branch of the Australian Lactation Consultant’s Association. In the year Trudi qualified as an IBCLC she gained the highest marks in the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners exam and was subsequently invited onto the IBLCE examination committee for the review of the following year’s exam.

She left behind three beautiful young children, a devoted husband and loving parents, brothers and their families, and countless friends.

Health e-Learning, by the awarding of this scholarship, is seeking to honour the memory of a truly remarkable and wonderful woman who made a great contribution to the mothers and babies in her care, the students of lactation who she taught, and the lactation world.

What the scholarship covers

Full fees for:

Selection Criteria

The applicant:

  • must have an intention to sit the IBLCE examination within the two years following the year the scholarship is awarded.
  • must meet all IBLCE stated prerequisites to sit the IBLCE examination within the two years following the year the scholarship was awarded. (Important: Please refer to the IBLCE website to view the exam pre-requisites. The scholarship does NOT cover the college-level courses that must be completed.)
  • must be prepared to pay the IBLCE examination fee when it becomes due.
  • will provide written agreement to IBLCE to release your examination results to Health e-Learning.
  • must have a computer that is connected to the internet and you have sufficient computer skills to participate in online learning.
  • must be sufficiently fluent in the English language to study these programs, and read research papers and textbooks.

The scholarship is open internationally. The scholarship will be awarded to the best-qualified applicant, with preference given to one who has or has had mother-to-mother/peer-to-peer breastfeeding counseling experience with a recognized volunteer peer counseling service (for example La Leche League, Australian Breastfeeding Association, National Childbirth Trust, etc)

Application

Applications are now open and close 31st of May each year. The successful applicant will be notified in the second week of June. Click on the application form link to apply.

Agreement

It is expected that the successful applicant will agree to:

  • Purchase, or have access to, one or more of the latest editions of the major comprehensive lactation texts.
  • Pay the IBLCE examination fee when it becomes due.
  • Make a firm commitment to spend at least 15 hours per BreastEd course and at least 5 hours for the Ethics course to study the course content and complete the activities and other courses prior to the Deadline for Exam Application in the year you sit.
  • Complete the practice exams in Lactation Exam Practice.
  • Participate in the online discussion forums that accompany each of the online courses and the Lactation Exam Practice.
  • Establish and maintain regular contact by email with your course facilitators.
  • Apply the knowledge learned as you work with mothers/parents and babies, discussing your clinical experiences with your clinical mentor and your course facilitators.

We have developed an online staff education program to help hospitals and health facilities easily and affordably educate their staff. There is an ever increasing need for hospitals and health facilities to provide high quality lactaton services to those in their care and we are proud to have helped many of our clients achieve this over the years.

Our online program is veratile, flexible, affordable, and helps ensure staff get adequate and consistent education.

Health e-Learning is a source of information for health care professionals, providing relevant articles, a monthly newsletter and the latest news for individuals and hospital groups.

Breastfeeding is as nature intended it to be. Research into breastmilk and lactation provides us with a science behind the act of nature. The world is a vast place and peoples in each region of the world have lived with different weather conditions, housing arrangements, dietary intakes and religious beliefs. Breastfeeding may not be very different between cultures, however all those other factors impact on breastfeeding outcomes. From 2008 - 2011, in our annual GOLD conference we included a segment titled "Capturing Breastfeeding Culture Worldwide" to allow us all to reach out and touch the nature of breastfeeding in a culture other than our own.

It is hoped that you will all enjoy the opportunity to expand your knowledge about health, birthing and breastfeeding during the presentation of these sessions. The speakers are all experts in their regions and are directly involved in working with mothers and breastfeeding babies.

All of these presentations are offered to you for free. 

Click on the link below for more information.

Need CERPs? Sitting the IBLCE Exam? Want professional development points? 

Health e-Learning specializes in providing courses for professional development for Lactation Consultants and health professionals, and exam preparation courses for International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) exam candidates.

Our courses provide the highest standard of evidence-based education at a time and place that suits you.

  • start immediately after you enroll, anytime
  • study online at times that suit you
  • share knowledge and experience with our highly qualified online tutors and hundreds of students from around the world who are studying with you
  • collect your Certificate, with educational points included, immediately you pass the course

Browse our courses below, enroll and start straight away.

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The BreastEd series is comprised of 10 unique courses, each dealing with a specific area or period of relevance to the breastfeeding mother and her infant. Together these courses provide a comprehensive study program in lactation and breastfeeding.

The aim of this program is to provide students with a comprehensive direction of study that will prepare them for the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners' (IBLCE) examination, while giving them the knowledge and confidence to become competent professionals in the field of lactation.
By developing and delivering this program online, a secondary aim is to provide a high quality study program accessible to students who, by preference or necessity, find the unlimited 12-month access to course content, tutoring and peer support best suits their needs.

The BreastEd series has been approved by the Lactation Education Accreditation and Approval Review Committee (LEAARC), which recognizes comprehensiveness and quality in lactation programs, and is the standard recommended for all programs of study for future Lactation Consultants.

The BreastEd series meets and exceeds the lactation-specific education prerequisite for those students preparing for the IBLCE examination to become a Lactation Consultant.

Enroll into the BreastEd Series in one transaction and have access to the whole program and tutors for a full 12 months. Alternatively, each course may be enrolled into individually for a one-month per course enrollment period, cumulative as you add each new course.

Download the full program description.

 
 

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Lactation Exam Practice comprises a series of multiple choice questions designed to simulate the style of questions candidates of the IBLCE Examination will face. The questions cover the topics examined by IBLCE. This practice exam is an integral part of the final preparations for future IBCLCs and recertifying IBCLCs.

 

Experts-in-Lactation Lectures are recorded presentations on a range of lactation topics by Lactation Professionals from around the world. The easy format lets you watch and listen as though you were in a lecture, then repeat the lecture as many times as you wish during your enrollment period.

All the lectures will award CERPs for Lactation Consultants and you will have access to the recording for one week from the time you enroll.


The courses in this series give a basic introduction to their subject matter.

Medical Terminology will meet the IBLCE exam prerequisite for those requiring this subject.
Child Development will refresh your memory of this subject. Note that this will not meet the IBLCE exam prerequisite of a semester-length course in this subject for first-time exam candidates.

The cost of each course is $US42.

Advanced Practice Series are short 4 hour courses on a range of lactation topics. These courses have been reviewed for accuracy and relevance by leading lactation professionals and academics.

This series examines specialist topics or advanced knowledge and are ideal for extending your knowledge.

Each course is worth approximately 4 CERPs after you complete a simple quiz online at the end of the course.

 

Ethics for Lactation Consultants introduces students to the theories of ethics, and gives them a thorough understanding of their responsibilities in relation to the IBLCE Code of Ethics and the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (WHO Code). It is accredited to provide 5 ECERPs.

Personal experience with the Trudi Szallasi Memorial Scholarship