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Creating an Office Setting that Promotes and Supports Breastfeeding

Objectives

Physicians participating in this activity should be able to: 

• Apply the basic principles of breastfeeding to provide anticipatory guidance, support, and resources to facilitate breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months, and thereafter with the introduction of other foods for up to one year and as long as mutually desired by the mother and baby 
• Manage common breastfeeding problems and challenges (i.e., milk supply, breast soreness, returning to work), bearing in mind the impact of health care professionals’ attitudes and recommendations on a families’ decision to initiate and continue breastfeeding.
• Describe the adverse effects of secondhand smoke on children, provide counseling to families to reduce tobacco exposure and quit smoking, and use community resources and the PA Quitline.
• Identify appropriate communication skills or strategies to support and promote breastfeeding among mothers who smoke and provide assistance to quit smoking.
• Develop a plan for practice improvement (i.e., related to office policy and practices) that optimizes outcomes for families related to breastfeeding and tobacco cessation and promote continuing education among staff.
• Use the new Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Food Packages as a resource for breastfeeding promotion and support.

Taking the test

Accreditation and designation information 

The Pennsylvania Medical Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

The Pennsylvania Medical Society designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.

Faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing medical education activities sponsored by the Pennsylvania Medical Society are expected to disclose to the audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).

Activity Development Team 

• Peter Alagona, Jr., MD, FACC
• Barbara A. Layne, RN 

The members of the Activity Development Team have stated they have no conflict of interest to disclose.

Enduring Material: Expires Dec. 31, 2011

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