The NDC Lactation Fellowship: an overview

You can purchase The Fussy Breastfed Infant, Nipple Pain and Wounds in Lactation, and Breast Inflammation in Lactation modules here. These modules are composed of advanced health professional facing content. Anyone can purchase access to the modules. Only NDC Lactation Fellowship participants can use it as part of their course and the Fellowship qualification.

Who can participate?

The NDC Institute is delighted to launch the Neuroprotective Developmental Care Lactation Fellowship, which offers advanced upskilling in clinical lactation and breastfeeding support for NDC Accredited healthcare professionals.

Pre-requisites

NDC Accreditation, completed either with The NDC Institute or the Possums charity any time prior to its closure. (If you paid to enter the NDC Accreditation pathway with the Possums charity but didn't complete prior to the charity's closure, and would like to resume, please email our Education Manager Ms Cathryn Proberts at education@ndcinstitute.com.au, as The NDC Institute is now in the position to help you re-join without you incurring extra cost.)
Membership of Maintenance of NDC Accreditation.

What is involved?

Self-paced online learning from sequential modules
Regular Fellowship Live Network Hour (1 hour every two months)
13 modules, about 8 hours of your time required for each module (including the relevant recorded or live online guest speaker presentation + Fellowship Live Network Hour)
24 months access after purchase of each module
Up to 5 years to complete
Pay as you go modules to upskill at your own rate
Join at any time and pause at any time

The NDC Fellowship vision

An extension of existing NDC Institute courses, to enable advanced practitioners in Neuroprotective Developmental Care to extend their knowledge, skills and expertise to the highest possible level in clinical breastfeeding and lactation support and breastfeeding medicine
Two streams to allow for participants to optimise key skills while working within their unique scope of practice
A platform for advanced practitioners to discuss cases and issues
A core curriculum of breastfeeding content nested in the context of Neuroprotective Developmental Care, drawn from latest research
Covers the curriculum of the North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine
Meets the Lactation Specific Education requirements for the International Board Certification of Lactation Consultants examination eligibility process
An alternative advanced qualification reflecting expertise in Lactation and Infant care without the requirement for 1000 clinical hours (unsupervised) or 500 clinical hours (supervised). Instead, participants access dozens of Clinical Demonstrations by Dr Pamela Douglas, either recorded or live online, drawing on the latest evidence-based skills in breastfeeding and human lactation support.
Fellows may have the opportunity to take on an NDC Educator role to support ongoing sustainability of the NDC Institute educational programs
Completed Fellows will be able to use the terms NDC Fellow, or NDC Lactation Consultant (NDC-LC). In addition, if the completed Fellow is a medical practitioner, they will be able to describe themselves using the term NDC Breastfeeding Medicine Doctor or Physician.

For more information

The NDC Lactation Fellowship Workbook is available online inside The NDC Institute once membership of NDC Accreditation is purchased.
The NDC Lactaton Fellowship is accompanied by a guest speaker program, also open to all health professionals and providers, found here.
You can find out what makes the NDC Lactation Fellowship different here.
The NDC Lactation Fellowship module content and projected dates are available inside the NDC Accreditation pathway and also inside Maintenance of NDC Accreditation.

What will this cost?

In addition to your annual Maintenance of NDC Accreditation fee (AUD $350), each module including the Live Network Hour costs AUD $130. This is a total of AUD $2390 (inclusive of two annual Maintenance fees which totals AUD $700).

There will also be a AUD $50 admin fee for registering as part of The NDC Lactation Fellowship. You have five years after your date of registration to complete the Fellowship. This function is still under development.

How to register

If you would like to enrol in the NDC Lactation Fellowship, please contact our NDC Educator Ms Bree Cosgrove at b.cosgrove @ndcinstitute.com.au. You are welcome to purchase available modules at any time.