CE & CME Training for Healthcare Professionals & Students

Dr. Amy Gilliland offers a series of courses and workshops that qualify for CE or CME that are uniquely designed to:

  • Build Your Knowledge – Experience innovative curriculum and workshop activities focusing on the neurobiology of the brain in labor, with over 500 references, written by expert Amy Gilliland, PhD.
  • Improve Patient Outcomes – Lower your cesarean birth rate through evidence-based care that aims to reduce racial inequities and foster the best possible outcomes for your hospital by using a more multidisciplinary perspective.
  • Strengthen Patient Experiences – Provide trauma-informed care and enhance your connections with patients while building capacity in labor support that will help limit your own burnout.
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Why Take Doula Training as a Healthcare Provider?

Our unique perspective considers medical anthropology, systems theory, interpersonal neurobiology, doula studies, as well as traditional sources such as nursing and midwifery to train you in a new way of thinking.

A new way of thinking means more and better solutions for recurring problems.

Trauma informed care involves a new way of thinking and approaching other humans. We model that in the training and assist you in identifying the subtle nuances in communication that make a difference to patients.

We train you in how to use your brain and your innate skillset to become the observant caregiver and leader that you want to be.

We provide you with an extensive downloadable e-file manual to provide evidence for all of our concepts. It can also help you in creating policy or leading staff discussions at your institution.

Dr. Gilliland’s extensive knowledge as a Research Fellow means your spontaneous questions can often be answered.

Many nursing students want experience in labor and delivery before completing school. Doula work can help to meet that need. In a competitive field, a DTD Doula Training Completion Certificate can be the difference in getting hired for the position.

Others are uncertain whether obstetrics or midwifery are the right choice. This workshop can provide a concrete answer. Every nurse who has taken the course has stated that the patient care skills they learned were applicable in every unit they worked in the hospital or clinic. Many graduating students said their DTD doula training provided the “missing piece” in daily bedside interaction and touch skills with patients, giving them the confidence to provide care.

Nurses and physicians will attend more births than a doula ever can – they have the possibility of influencing the lives of thousands of families and babies. Because of this, we encourage you to take our full Birth Doula Training Program. By learning and adopting birth doula skills into your medical practice, you can offer more wholistic care that not only centers the physical needs of your patients, but focuses on their mental and emotional well-being for more successful births. Through our trauma informed, evidence based, culturally attuned curriculum, you can improve outcomes for previously traumatized or marginalized birthing parents and their newborns.

Doula Training for Providers

Earn 32 CME/CE Credits Over Five Days
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Why Engage Dr. Amy Gilliland, PhD for Continuing Education:

  • Renown Research Fellow
  • AASECT Certified Sexuality Education Supervisor
  • Birth Doula Trainer & Mentor
  • 30+ Years Experience as a Doula
  • 3,000 Hours Teaching Adults
  • Published in 6 Peer-Reviewed Journals
  • Approved Continuing Education Provider

Dr. Gilliland’s courses are uniquely structured, designed specifically for medical professionals to diversify and elevate their support skills and practice evidence-based medicine. Any in-person or online course taught by Amy L. Gilliland offers 28 nursing CE’s. In addition, Dr. Gilliland offers a special weeklong retreat style training for Providers worth 32 CME’s.

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Doula Training for Providers

Course Recognition

CE Information
Dr. Gilliland is an approved Continuing Education Provider by the California Board of Nursing, #16959. This training is worth 32 nursing CE’s.

CME Information and Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care and Doulaing The Doula Trainings and Certification. The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (WAPC) is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (WAPC) designates this LIVE COURSE for a maximum of 32 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits(TM). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

No one in control of content has any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Upcoming CE/CME In-Person Workshops:

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November 3–7
Private Estate in Southeast
Las Vegas, NV

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February 23–27
Residence Inn Fort Myers Sanibel
Fort Myers, FL

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How is Doula Training Relevant to Medical Providers?

While doctors and nurses are trained to focus on the processes of birth, doulas are trained to focus on the person birthing. The most effective practitioners embrace both perspectives, which is challenging to do in the real world. The nurturing skills, culturally attuned curriculum, and evidence-based course work available from Dr. Amy Gilliland can be a powerful tool to help transform your OB/GYN or labor support practice.

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Programs & Courses to Transform Your Perinatal Care Practices

Birth Doula Training & Certification – This informative session covers the normal and altered neurological function of the attachment and defense systems in the laboring person’s brain. Learn More Pink Arrow

Postpartum Doula Training – This engaging series covers postpartum sexuality and intimacy, medicalization of the body, grief, body image, partner’s experiences, fathering, and over a dozen tools on how to best support parents. Learn More Pink Arrow

CE & CME Training Courses – This multi-day provider training empowers medical providers to implement new birth doula skills, communicate using trauma-informed principles, use patient-defined and culturally congruent behaviors, refine their neurological caregiving system, and relate the multidisciplinary perspectives of neurology, endocrinology, and anthropology to medicalized birth. Learn More Pink Arrow

Recognizing the Previously Traumatized Person in Labor – This informative session covers the normal and altered neurological function of the attachment and defense systems in the laboring person’s brain. Learn More Pink Arrow

Newborn Communication Skills – This workshop is designed to increase the skill and accuracy of perinatal professionals in recognizing infant cues and temperament to 85% agreement. Learn More Pink Arrow

The Postpartum Course – This course is a comprehensive examination of the first year after a pregnancy ends. This course is uniquely developed to help a wide range of people through the postpartum period, focusing largely on parents, educators, birth workers, nurses, family visitors, sexuality educators, and therapists. Learn More Pink Arrow

Your Social Brain – during this course, Dr. Amy Gilliland addresses how our social brains work and how to meet those needs – even in a virtual environment allowing you to increase your social effectiveness by understanding your brain. Learn More Pink Arrow

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Doulaing The Doula offers a wide range of courses and workshops throughout the year. Check out our course calendar to see what educational opportunities are waiting for you.

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