A woman told us she had received our postcard listing the dates and locations for our live review course. Along with the rest of the day’s mail, she plopped the postcard onto the counter, and began making dinner. Soon, her husband found the card, walked over to the computer, and Read more…
Exhale. You met the November deadline to apply for the April version of the IBLCE exam. You just paid your whopping fee. (The amount you paid differs from first-timers to repeaters, and also, from country to country. Nevertheless, it’s a big chunk of change!) But if you’re thinking you can Read more…
Making choices is seldom easy. I hear this all the time. Women tell me about the choices they’ve made–or they let others make choices for them. Sometimes, women feel hesitant to make choices. Maybe they feel compelled to make “easier” or more “reasonable” choices rather than the ones they really Read more…
Wouldn’t it be grand if you could successfully influence mothers, bosses, friends, and everyone you know to promote, support, and protect breastfeeding? What if I told you that you and other healthcare professionals can influence others in this way—and more—by adhering to six simple principles from an 80-year old book? Read more…
What’s that? You see this picture and you’re thinking, “Is Marie the birthday girl?” Oh, no, much better than that! Waaaaaaay MUCH better than that! (More on that in a minute.) I can honestly say I have enjoyed every live course I’ve ever taught in the past 25 years or Read more…
A career-critical exam differs greatly from an end-of-semester exam. One major difference is that a licensure or certification exam seeks to determine if you are minimally competent—safe—to perform your job.Therefore, to prepare yourself to deal with application-level exam questions, take my 7 suggestions: 1. Learn the anatomy of any exam item. Read more…
Most certification or licensure exams, including the IBLCE exam, use a multiple-choice format. Before taking a multiple-choice exam, everyone needs to develop some test-taking savvy. To do that, it’s helpful to know the “anatomy” of the exam item. The Stem The stem consists of the necessary “background” information, along with Read more…
Over the years, I’ve taught thousands of IBCLC candidates. I felt sure I’d heard every imaginable question about the IBLCE exam. No, apparently not! While teaching outside of Boston last week, a participant in my review course asked, “What is most important to study for the IBLCE exam?” The question stopped me Read more…
You want to do it. You really do. But no matter how often you tell yourself you’re going to take–and rock–the next step of your IBCLC journey, you just don’t do it. Then, there’s another voice inside your head telling you, just as often, that you can’t. Or that you Read more…
Ah, yes. You know you need to start studying sometime, but how soon is “sometime”? You’re feeling fearful that if you start too soon, you’ll forget what you learned. And if you start too late, you might not be able to cram in everything you need to know. Good points. Read more…