RE: Marquette teacher training

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Dear : Yes – we have been offering an online NFP Teacher Training course for health professionals since 2000. We now offer the course as either for college credit(i.e., Two 3 credit courses – a 3 credit theory course and a 3 credit practice course) or for continuing education credits – we have CEUs and hope to apply for CMEs. Those interested in the continuing education route can register at this Web site: http://www.marquette.edu/nursing/NFP/Teacher.shtml At this time each course for continuing education is $900 – so the total program is $1800.The for credit courses cost about $890 per credit. Both courses are offered during the regular semester calendar – there are 9 modules per course – each offered over one to two weeks. The Theory course isoffered in the Fall semester beginning the last week of August and ending the second week of December. The practice course begins the 3rd week of January and ends the second week of May. I hope this answers you quest ion. I hope that you are able to come to our summer Human Fertility conference and attend the update workshop for the Marquette Model. See: http://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/nfp/humanfertilityconference.shtml With regards, Dr. Fehring From: nfpprofessionals [mailto:nfpprofessionals ]On Behalf Of Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 2:25 PMTo: nfpprofessionals Subject: Marquette teacher training Dr FehringI have a former nicu nurse friend who is very interested in getting trained. Do you all offer online training similar to Baron's course? Can you please point me in the right direction to help this friend join our cohort. Any informationincluding price and class schedules would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks! Sincerely, Hundredmark, RN,BSN An interesting response to the study that has been posted by :Hany Lashen, Senior Clinical Lecturer / Honorary Consultant in Reproductive Medicine University of Sheffield Send response to journal: Dear Sir I read with interest the findings of this paper prompted by the immediate media attraction this paper has received. There is a magnificent amount of data in this study that renders it worthy of publication however, despite addressing the weakness ofthe study the authors have neglected 2 major weaknesses; the first is the self selection which lies in the reason for not taking the pill in the first place. Did the never users want to and were deemed not suitable for health reasons, strong family historyor obesity. In such case the 2 groups started the study on unequal footing with regard to their health and disease risk. Some of them may had suffered infertility problems and had no reason to take to take the pill in the first place, which explains the differencein parity between the groups. Such group have their pertinent health risk such as ovarian and endometrial cancer. Second, there is no mention of body weight or any other anthropometric measures in the data collected. Given that obesity is a strong confounderof most of the diseases assessed by the study and a contraindication to taking the pill, I consider neglecting to collect such data a major flaw in the study. The study was started in the late 60s and obesity has only become a major problem relatively recentlytherefore the chance of including equal number of obese and overweight women in the 2 groups is very unlikely and the chance of selection bias is subsequently high. In fact, the contra-indications to prescribing the pill would have been more adhered to inthose days when obesity and overweight were less common than under the current climate allowing more opportunity that the non-users were more likely to be either overweight or obese. Another issue in support of selection bias, albeit inadvertent in this case,is the significantly higher risk of violent death which reflects common personality traits or environmental exposure pertinent to those who chose the combined contraceptive which is mentioned in a pure scientific context and not meant in any negative sense.The drop out rate reach one third of the population which was commented upon by the authors nevertheless, its significance was conveniently played down. I do not wish to reduce the significance of the study, in fact I applaud the authors for the magnificentwork which offers a justifiable reassurance that the pill does not carry the once thought high risk of disease and cancer. Furthermore, despite the inferiority of this evidence compared to a prospective randomised trial, it is cost effective and offers a reasonabledegree of comprehensibility. Competing interests: None declared________________________________________From: nfpprofessionals [nfpprofessionals ] on behalf of alicia [ahuntley@...]Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 8:39 PMTo: NFP listSubject: there has to be something wrong with this studyhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100312/hl_nm/us_contraceptive_pill_riskHas anyone had a chance to read the actual study?Harry Truman once quipped, " I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think its hell. " ahuntley@...------------------------------------