With the support of the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Krebs and their team of interdisciplinary professionals have created multiple Open Education Resources. Highlighting the physiology of lactation as well as the foundational methods of breastfeeding within different scenarios, the team has created interactive modules used for educational purposes. Please click on the various sections linked below and explore the different interactive scenarios.
Interprofessional Foundational Lactation Open Education Resources (OERs) (all)
Physiology of Lactation http://www.clinicalanatomy.ca/thorax/Lactation/story.html
Lactation 1: Prenatal Anticipatory Guidance http://clinicalanatomy.ca/embryology/Lactation1/story.html
Lactation 2: Cesarean Section in Hospital http://clinicalanatomy.ca/embryology/Lactation2/story.html
Lactation 3: Effective Breastfeeding http://clinicalanatomy.ca/embryology/Lactation3/story.html
Lactation 4: Midwifery Clinic, Low Milk Supply (LMS) http://www.clinicalanatomy.ca/embryology/Lactation4/story.html
Project Team
Provincial Partners
- BC Lactation Consultants Association – Tina Revai, President of BCLCA, Team Member and Contributor to modules
Lactation Resources & Curriculum For Health Professional Students
Educational Resources and Curriculum on Lactation for Health Undergraduate Students: A Scoping Review. Journal of Human Lactation. December 2020.
Suzanne Hetzel Campbell, PhD, RN, IBCLC, CCSNE,
Nicole de Oliveira Bernardes, PhD, PT, Thayanthini Tharmaratnam, MSN, RN and Flaviana Vely Mendonça Vieira, PhD
As breastfeeding is a fundamental component of health care, this foundational practice serves to promote health for both members of the breastfeeding dyad. Thus, it is essential for all healthcare professionals to be equipped and adequately prepared to help support breastfeeding parents through their undergraduate education. Serving as key informational resources for many of these families, professionals have the ability to influence and initiate breastfeeding. Thus, this paper explores the literature for educational resources, methods, and curriculum used in the education of health professional students related to lactation. The global literature regarding established best practices or curriculum for health professionals is inconclusive and lacking in rigour. Readers can view the article for free as an open educational resource below.
Effectiveness of pedagogical scaffolding of an interprofessional lactation curriculum.
Dear Invitee,
My name is Dr. Suzanne Campbell. I am a professor in the School of Nursing at UBC. I am kindly requesting your participation in a research study that I am conducting with faculty members and researchers from multiple schools of nursing. The purpose of this study is to learn more about students’ experiences (or practitioners past experiences), learning clinical application skills for supporting parents with breastfeeding and lactation management. Research on health professional students’ knowledge, attitudes, self-confidence and clinical skills supporting new parents has not previously been compared by various models for teaching. As part of a multi-site study, students in different health professional programs are engaged in a range of learning strategies for learning core lactation content. In this study, students’ experience and translation of knowledge, attitudes, self-confidence and perception of skills are being compared across sites to inform future curriculum development and advance clinical practice learning for all health care professionals.
If you decide to participate in the study, you will asked to do the following:
Complete the pre-learning survey prior to class with information on lactation.
Complete a post-learning survey on knowledge about breastfeeding, attitudes, self-confidence related to providing breastfeeding support, specific to your location and the type of learning. [For practitioners, providing information about your program education in this area could be very helpful – many of us received very little.]
If you would like to participate in the study, please click the survey link located below on this website. The study consent is at the beginning of each survey and downloadable above. Your post-survey results are available to you in a downloadable pdf form when you complete the survey.
Thank you for your time and participation.
Sincerely, Suzanne Hetzel Campbell PhD, RN, FCNEI, IBCLC, CCSNE on behalf of our team
Research Team
Principal Investigator: Suzanne H. Campbell, PhD, RN, FCNEI, IBCLC, CCSNE Professor, School of Nursing, UBC (Vancouver)
Co-investigators:
Carrie Miller, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Montana State University, School of Nursing, Billings, MN, USA Email: carrie.miller6@montana.edu
Sunny Gayle Hallowell, PhD, Associate Professor, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA Email: sunny.hallowell@villanova.edu
Jolynn Dowling, PhD, NP, IBCLC, Associate Educator, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA Email: jolynn.dowling@wichita.edu
Tina Revia, MSN, RN, IBCLC, Instructor, North Island College, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada Email: tina.revai@nic.bc.ca
Melanie Willson, MSN, RN, Assistant Professor of Teaching, UBC-Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada Email: melanie.willson@ubc.ca
George Oliveira Silva, UBC-V, School of Nursing, VIRS, Statistical support, PhD (c) Federal University of Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Point of Contact
Dr. Suzanne H. Campbell, PhD, RN, IBCLC,CCSNE; Professor, Lactation Research Project PI UBC School of Nursing; Email: suzanne.campbell@ubc.ca; Phone: 1- 604-822-7748 [voice messages will be forwarded to email]
Lactation – Pre-Learning Survey
The purpose of this study is to learn more about students’ and practitioners’ experiences learning clinical application skills for supporting parents with breastfeeding and lactation management The survey is 10 minutes long and all data provided will be kept confidential.
Lactation – Post-Learning Survey
The purpose of this study is to learn more about how the students’ and practitioners’ answers have changed after their lactation education. The survey is 20-30 minutes long and all data provided will be kept confidential. This study was funded by the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund. This data will help supplement the analysis and efficacy of this resource.
OER Evaluation Survey
Upon completion of one of the Lactation Open Education Resource Modules, you will be invited to take part in this evaluation survey. The questions in this survey relate to these specific learning resources. This study will help us to learn more about the effectiveness and user-friendliness of teaching foundational lactation using open education resources online. The survey is 5-10 minutes long and all data collected will be kept confidential. This study was funded by the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund.
General Resources
Communicating with new parents about breastfeeding: A health promotion, health-equity, patient-centered focus.
Women’s Health Research Cluster Seminar, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada. February 3, 2020.
2020 Leader in Open Learning
Dr. Campbell’s nomination as a 2020 leader in Open Learning as an OER Champion.