The University of Florence, in collaboration with the PeaRL Perinatal Research Laboratory and the CiaoLapo ETS Foundation, presents the new edition of the advanced course “The First Thousand Days. Promoting and protecting healthin pregnancy and after birth.”
This training, which will run from October 2024 to June 2025, offers a unique opportunity for perinatal health professionals and others in the field to deepen their knowledge on crucial topics such as maternal-fetal health, nutrition, medication safety, and responsive care.
The course adopts a blended format, combining synchronous and asynchronous online classes with three in-person meetings in Florence (also usable online). This structure makes it possible to balance the flexibility of distance learning with the importance of direct interaction.
In the image you can read the anonymous evaluations of the aa 23/24 course. Each parameter was evaluated with an average score above 90/100. Participants from the previous edition particularly enjoyed it:
- The variety of topics covered: “It was an informative course on many topics, food for thought, knowledge based on extensive up-to-date bibliography.”
- Practical applicability: “Comprehensive, practical and expendable in everyday clinical practice.”
- The quality of the lecturers: “The lecturers in the various classes proved to be very competent, passionate and helpful.”
The course covers key topics such as safe medication use in pregnancy, perinatal psychological well-being, management of perinatal trauma and bereavement, and trauma-focused approaches in fragile situations.
If you are interested in expanding your skills on the importance of the first thousand days and responsive care, registration is now open for the 2024/2025 edition. It will be possible to register until September 16, 2024, and educational activities will begin on October 1, 2024, and end on June 30, 2025.
The course has an educational load of 25 CFUs and a cost of €600 (€420 for under 28).
For details and information visit the course page on the PeaRL Laboratory website.
They say about us
- “It is a very powerfully enriching course; it should be preparatory to work. If it were, many hospital settings would improve, one operator and one word at a time.”
- “Comprehensive, practical and expendable in everyday clinical practice.”
- “Enriching and engaging, adds further knowledge in an extremely thoughtful and accurate vein!”
- “A valuable course to stimulate, create, foster new knowledge, relationships and projects.”
- “Beautiful, interactive, rich in content and insights for everyday work.”
- “A multidisciplinary course in which crucial skills, experiences and information flow in to accompany couples through the first thousand days.”
- “Enriching and necessary. Allows you to deconstruct the ‘it’s always been done this way,’ guiding you to understand how to really support each family.”
- “I feel I have more tools to apply to my profession.”
- “Absolutely to be followed in order to be able to say and do everything with greater awareness, to contribute with one’s work to really do salutogenesis, bringing daily respect, attention and care to the families one is dealing with.”
