The UB launches a pioneer course on breast feeding in the bacherlor’s degree of Medicine
This academic year 2018-2019, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the UB offers for the first time in Spain, a pioneering course on breast feeding for Medicine students.
This academic year 2018-2019, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the UB offers for the first time in Spain, a pioneering course on breast feeding for Medicine students.
On Friday, September 29, the Bellvitge Health Sciences Campus will start this course, offered as optional subject, which aims to provide future doctors with a specific training regarding some of the daily problems mothers face when nursing. The content of the course ranges from the study of breast milk to the milk extraction mechanisms, knowledge on human milk banks, or the identification of inefficient breastfeeding, as well as other special cases.
The aim of this course is to train future doctors in the field of breast feeding. This first course got twenty-five registrations, three of them being men. Next yearʼs offer is expected to grow and cover other studies in the field of health.
The course will last for a semester and offers theory and practical lessons, taught by Pepita Giménez Bonafé, lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in Bellvitge Campus, who will teach about the physiology of reproductive structure; Carlos González Rodríguez, paediatric and writer and internationally distinguished as an expert on breast feeding; Imma Marcos, midwife and international consultant on breast feeding and secretary of the Catalan Federation of Breastfeeding Support Groups (FEDECATA); Alba Padró Aroca, international consultant on breastfeeding and president of Alba Lactància; Vanessa Pleguezuelos, head of the Breast Milk Bank and coordinator of the project Genomes for Life (GCAT), and Luis Ruiz Guzmán, expert paediatric on breast feeding and former coordinator of the UNICEF AND WHO baby-friendly hospital initiative.