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Breastfeeding Curriculum - Physician
Presenters: Clare Campbell Nesmith, M.D. Misty Virmani, MD, FAAP Hope Caddy, RN, IBCLC Lisa Fulgham, RN, IBCLC Regina Ward, RN, IBCLC Susan Trussell BSN, IBCLC Emily Gordon, MS, CHES, CCE Jennifer Andrews, M.D. Dr. Elizabeth Kim, MD
Activities included in the BUndle
Activity Title (clickable links)
Baby Friendly and Breastfeeding Basics
Pregnancy, Birth, and Breastfeeding
Expired on 6/8/2020
Science of Breastfeeding
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For a detailed video on how to complete this curriculum module, click this link https://vimeo.com/161472627  . 

This curriculum module will teach the physician the goals and mission of the Baby Friendly Hospital initiative. Activities will outline all that is required to be baby friendly certified. 

This Baby-Friendly Curriculum contains more than one activity labeled “Bundled Activities.” Each of these activities contains recorded videos of lectures. 

In order to progress through the curriculum, you must watch each video in its entirety. Once you have watched the video, click “next” to move on. You will not be able to complete the curriculum until you have fulfilled this requirement. 

Once you have watched all of the videos and completed each activity, click “Launch” to evaluate the curriculum and receive your certificate. 

Please keep in mind that 
videos include brief pauses to allow time to read the information presented on the slides. 

Knowledge Gap: 
This module will teach the physician the goals and mission of the Baby Friendly Hospital initiative. Activities will outline all that is required to be baby friendly certified. 

Target Audience 
The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals who would like to learn about the baby friendly infant curriculum in clinical practice and how it pertains to their respective profession. 

Release and Expiration Dates 
4/1/2016 - 4/1/2019 

Speaker/Planner Biographical Info 

Misty Virmani, MD, FAAP, is a board certified pediatrician at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Before returning to train as a neonatologist at ACH and UAMS, she worked for seven years as a general pediatrician. She specializes in lactation medicine and breastfeeding and is leading the UAMS Baby Friendly Hospital initiative.

Clare Campbell Nesmith, M.D. is a board-certified pediatrican in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital Nurseries. She does not see patients outside of the nursery. She received her MD from UAMS in 2000 and completed her residency at ACH. 

Hope Caddy, RN, IBCLC is an internationally board certified lactation consultant. She has worked with the lactation team at UAMS for almost two years and enjoys helping mothers nurture their babies. 

Lisa Fulgham, RN, IBCLC is an internatnally board certified lactation consultant. She has been an RN for 29 years and has worked as an IBCLC for four years. 

Regina Ward, RN, IBCLC is a nurse and an internationally board certified lactation consultant. She works in the UAMS NICU and is an RNIII. 

Susan Trussell BSN, IBCLC is an internationally board certified lactation consultant at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Susan has worked six years on the lactation team supporting and promoting breastfeeding education. 

Emily Gordon, MS, CHES, CCE is the Patient Education Specialist for the Women’s Health Service Line at UAMS. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist, Certified Childbirth Educator, and a Certified Breastfeeding Educator. She has been with UAMS for 3 years where she provides patient education to patients and families, involves the patients and families in educational activities, serves as a patient advocate, collaborates with other health team members in assessing and identifying the scope of the patient’s needs and evaluates the process of patient education. She also teaches childbirth classes and breastfeeding classes to prepare future moms and dads for the experience of birthing a child and caring for one, as well as teaches a sibling class to prepare the sibling for when their baby brother or sister gets here. 

Dr. Elizabeth Kim, MD, attended Lyon College in Batesville, AR and received her undergraduate degree in Biology with a minor in Chemistry in 1999. Following two years of basic science research in multiple myeloma at our own Arkansas Cancer Research Center, she attended medical school at UAMS and graduated in 2005. She received her pediatric training at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and continued her fellowship training in Neonatology at UAMS/ACH, graduating in 2011. She is now in her third year on faculty in the Division of Neonatology. Her fellowship research focused on the use of telemedicine to improve delivery patterns across Arkansas of very low birth weight infants and she continues to be interested in the use of TM to improve clinical care of our states smallest patients. 

Jennifer Andrews, M.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital. She completed undergraduate training at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with degree in Dietetics. She attended medical school at UAMS and completed a residency in Pediatrics at UAMS/ACH. Dr. Andrews currently works as a Clinical Attending in the Newborn Nursery/NICU at both hospitals. She also oversees the development of the Term Nursery resident curriculum and has assisted with the development of the Baby Friendly nursing curriculum. 

  
Disclosures
The planners, speakers, moderators, peer reviewers and /or panelists of this CME activity have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

Planning Committee: 
Misty Virmani, MD, Neonatology
Traci Altman, Instruction Development Specialist
Jennifer P. Andrews MD, Pediatrics/Newborn
Christi Arthur RD
Jennifer (Hope) Caddy, IBCLC
Denise Gill, IBCLC
Emily Gordon MS, CHES, CCE, CBE; patient educator
April Hobbs, RD
Elizabeth Kim, MD, Neonatology
Jamie Peacock, Director of Nursing Quality
Fiona Robertson, IBCLC
Pamela Royal, IBCLC, RN
Judy Smith, RN, patient educator
Barbara Sweeney, IBCLC
Susan Trussell, IBCLC
Regina Ward, IBCLC

Speakers: 
Misty Virmani, MD, Neonatology
Traci Altman, Instruction Development Specialist
Jennifer P. Andrews MD, Pediatrics/Newborn
Christi Arthur RD
Jennifer (Hope) Caddy, IBCLC
Denise Gill, IBCLC
Emily Gordon MS, CHES, CCE, CBE; patient educator
April Hobbs, RD
Elizabeth Kim, MD, Neonatology
Jamie Peacock, Director of Nursing Quality
Fiona Robertson, IBCLC
Pamela Royal, IBCLC, RN
Judy Smith, RN, patient educator
Barbara Sweeney, IBCLC
Susan Trussell, IBCLC
Regina Ward, IBCLC

Peer Reviewers:
Sara Peeples, MD
Ashley S. Ross, MD
Erin Bush, RN
Deanna Gilbert, RN
Kimberly Miller, ME.D., MCHES

Instructions to obtain credit:

Instructions to obtain credit:

1.      Launch the activity 
2.      Complete the pre-test 
3.      View the entire activity online 
4.      Complete the post-test 
         (must pass the post-test with a score of 80% to receive credit). 
         You may retake the post-test if you do not receive a passing score.
5.      Complete Evaluation 
Print certificate or transcript (Available in the “My Profile” tab). 

ANCC Accreditation Statement:
Center of Distance Health, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission of Accreditation

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UAMS Center for Distance Health
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Little Rock, AR 72205
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ACCME Accreditation Statement: 
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UAMS Office of Continuing Education 
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Little Rock, AR 72205 
Phone: 501-661-7962 Fax: 501-661-7968

Direct Provider Statement 
“UAMS College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”

Designation Statement 
The UAMS College of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Disclosure Policy statement
It is the policy of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all directly or jointly provided educational activities. All individuals who are in a position to control the content of the educational activity (course/activity directors, planning committee members, staff, teachers, or authors of CE) must disclose all relevant financial relationships they have with any commercial interest(s) as well as the nature of the relationship. Financial relationships of the individual’s spouse or partner must also be disclosed, if the nature of the relationship could influence the objectivity of the individual in a position to control the content of the CE. The ACCME describes relevant financial relationships as those in any amount occurring within the past 12 months that create a conflict of interest. Individuals who refuse to disclose will be disqualified from participation in the development, management, presentation, or evaluation of the CE activity.

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