Welcome to the course

How this course works

A short tour of your course: where everything is, how the quizzes and your assignment work, your certificates, and where to ask questions.

Chapters

Welcome

Welcome to Colic, Reflux and Infant Allergies: Level 4. This is a specialist, accredited programme covering the evidence behind colic, reflux, lactose intolerance and cows' milk protein allergy, and how to support the families you work with.

OCN Accredited · Level 4 · 5 modules · 33 lessons · 12 quizzes · 2 L-CERPs

Your tutor

Shel Banks is the leading expert in colic, reflux and infant allergies in the UK. With decades of clinical experience, she has been central to formulating industry guidelines, including contributing to the Cochrane systematic reviews on infantile colic. When you study this course, you are not learning from someone who read the evidence. You are learning from someone who helped produce it.

Contributing expert

Maureen Minchin, BA (Hons), MA (Melb), TSTC · Australia

A medical historian and internationally recognised authority on infant nutrition and allergy. Maureen has worked with the WHO and UNICEF, was influential in the creation of IBLCE and the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, and is the author of Milk Matters: Infant Feeding and Immune Disorder. This course was written by Shel Banks in conjunction with Maureen, and her work underpins the evidence base throughout.

How the course works

The course is made up of five modules, each broken into lessons and sub-lessons. Work through them in order: each builds on the last.

• Read the lessons. Each module opens with an introduction page telling you what it covers and how long it takes.
• Take the quizzes. A short multiple-choice quiz follows each section. You need 80% to pass, and you can retake as many times as you like.
• Complete the written assignment. This forms your accredited assessment.
• Time. Around six hours for the lessons, videos and quizzes, plus a further ten to twelve hours for the written assignment. Across your seven-week assignment window, that is very manageable.

You keep access for life: come back to any lesson at any time.

Would you rather listen?
The whole course is also available as audio, one episode per module, in the Podcast version section in your course list, just above the assessment. Same teaching, same order, same quizzes. Listen on a walk, switch back to the written lessons whenever you like.

How your progress is recorded

Your quiz results are what count. They are saved to your enrolment, so they follow you between your laptop, tablet and phone, and they are what we look at to confirm you have worked through the course. There is nothing else you need to click to mark a lesson as read. If you want to keep your own record as you go, your module companion documents are the place to do it.

Assessment and assignment

Your accredited assessment has two parts:

1. Module quizzes: complete each quiz as you go. Retake until you pass.

2. Written assignment: submitted at the end of the course.

• ⬇ Download Assignment brief: your copy to keep and work in.
• ⬇ Download Assignment support sheet: guidance, structure and tips for a strong submission.

We highly recommend working through the support sheet before you start writing. It guides you through how to answer each question, so you know exactly what we are looking for and can put together the strongest possible submission.

When you click the assignment brief or the support sheet, it downloads as a Word document for you to keep and work in.

Getting support

Email us at info@babyem.co.uk

Facebook group: Join the Infant Allergies, Colic and Reflux group, introduce yourself and connect with other practitioners on the course.

When you are ready, move on to the Course outline for a map of what is ahead, then dive into Module 01.