CPD lectures on Neuroscience and Perinatology

New knowledge in neuroscience is accumulating daily, and this has major relevance to all involved in Perinatal care: gynecology, obstetrics, midwifery, neonatology, and all professions involved in care of newborns and their development. This new information challenges old beliefs, and brings the potential for greatly improved quality of care, both for babies, but also mothers and fathers. In health services there is always a challenge in bringing this information from the realm of theory to practice in reality.

I, Dr Nils Bergman, have been practising and promoting Kangaroo Mother Care for over 20 years, and for the last 6 years I have been researching the underlying theory and neuroscience fulltime. I have now collated this information into clinically useful information packages, and am currently an approved “CPD service provider”, through the South African College of Family Physicians. Approval is for Level 1 CEU’s, for which I have nine (9) one hour stand alone lectures, and a further 11 which require attendance at previous lectures. On request, I am able to provide Level 2 CEU’s, but these would be customized to your need, and require prior approval by the SACFP. All CPD lectures have clear learning objectives and well-described content outlines, with references. Attendees will be provided with summary PowerPoint handouts and one or two key articles. The CPD certificate will require proof of attendance and completion of learning evaluation, (no test!) as required by HPCSA.

The cost for each CEU is R200 per person, or as negotiated.

Below please find a list of topics for CPD, the “standalone” are marked in bold.

Learning objectives and content outlines  on all these are available on request

	Topic	Target audience
1	Perinatal neurobehaviour	Obstetricians, midwives, paediatricians
2	Perinatal neuroscience	Neontalogists, paediatricians, NICU
3	Perinatal neuroscience – basic primer	All health professionals (All HP)
4	Science behind skin-to-skin contact	All health professionals (All HP)
5	Clinical evidence on skin-to-skin contact	All health professionals (All HP)
6	Perinatal neuroscience I – development	All health professionals (All HP)
7	Perinatal neuroscience II – separation	All health professionals (All HP)
8	Perinatal neuroscience III – research	All health professionals (All HP)
9	Neurologically supportive environment	Neonatologists, NICU staff
10	Developmental care (with Jill Bergman)	All health professionals (All HP)
11	Safe skin-to-skin technique	All health professionals (All HP)
12	Evidence based newborn feeding frequency	Neontalogists, paediatricians, NICU
13	Neurobehaviour of breastfeeding	Neontalogists, paediatricians, NICU
14	Breast milk contents and development	Neontalogists, paediatricians, NICU
15	Breastfeeding and breastmilk – basic primer	All health professionals (All HP)
16	Attachment	All health professionals (All HP)
17	Neuroscience of parenting	All health professionals (All HP)
18	Role of fathers in perinatal period.	All health professionals (All HP)
19	Anthropological perspectives on human birth	All health professionals (All HP)
20	Implementation principles and practice	All health professionals (All HP)