CPD course: Breast Anatomy – All Stages of Life

Enhance your understanding of breast anatomy with our Breast Anatomy – All Stages of Life CPD short course! This course is tailored for all healthcare professionals including nurses and offers practical insights across all life stages to improve patient care and workplace communication. Purchase our eCPD® course today for just R750 incl. VAT and earn 5 CEUs!

About the CPD course
The phrase back to basics signifies a return to fundamental principles or essential ideas. The Breast Anatomy- All Stages of Life short course implements the fundamentals of this popular phrase, back to basics. For one to truly understand something, you must start at the beginning and gradually progress through the stages of difficulty. Breast anatomy is explained and discussed by a diagnostic radiographer, in an understandable and easy manner that fellow healthcare professionals will understand and relate to.

This course serves as a beginner’s course for any healthcare professional seeking to gain knowledge on breast anatomy. It is also a refresher course for practitioners who already have a background on breast education. The short course aims to provide information on breast anatomy for healthcare professionals wanting to better understand what their patient in the obstetrics ward is going through post-partum, or for the mammographer striving to better communicate with the radiologist regarding their patient’s breast ultrasound with regard to anatomy and pathology.

This course informally discusses breast anatomy, from start to finish. Breast Anatomy – All Stages of Life is divided into 5 chapters:

• Embryology
• Breast Development
• The Dormant Breast
• Pregnancy
• Menopause

The first chapter explains the embryological development of the breast while in-utero. Images and diagrams are used to help explain the step-by-step development as well as the embryonic processes.

The chapter Breast Development presents detailed information on breast anatomy from birth to adolescence, discussing what happens to the breast as an organ as well detailing the many changes that occur within the breast. It is important to understand how the breast develops and changes over the years.

The Dormant Breast, the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the breast is explained during the organ’s stagnant/plateau/dormant phase of life. The fully developed and mature breast is investigated and described.

The breast undergoes a significant amount of change when a female is pregnant. Various hormonal changes as well as cellular and molecular changes occur within the breast, to prepare for lactation.

The final section on Menopause explains the last stage the breast goes through in its developmental phases, where yet another hormonal phenomenon occurs within the female body which affects the anatomy of the breast.

This short course will enrich healthcare professionals knowledge on breast anatomy, with the aim to improve patient care by understanding what the patient’s body is going through in any specific time of their lives, to improve communication skills in the workplace by improving medical jargon regarding breast anatomy, to refresh information on breast anatomy once learned at university, or to start from the beginning and learn something entirely new if no knowledge on the topic is present.

Breast Anatomy- All Stages of Life, a short course that will enrich the participant with valuable knowledge on breast anatomy. Begin your learning journey now on the eCPD® Healthcare website.