Clinical ART, from work-up to transfer
Online preparation for the Masterclass • 3 months • Live ART case conference
For midwives • nurses • physicians • obstetrician-gynaecologists
Three months following the couple's pathway, from the first consultation to the choice of technique, then on to the technique itself: timed intercourse, insemination or IVF. A simple method, real anonymised cases, a live ART case conference every month.
3 months · 4 live Zoom sessions
You see women and couples who have been waiting for a pregnancy for months or years.
They arrive with a story that is hard to tell, tests piled up in no particular order, a legitimate anxiety — and, most often, an absent partner.
You do not want to prescribe at random. You do not want to repeat tests for no reason. You want to know what to listen for, what to look for, what to explain, and when to refer.
In more than twenty years, what has struck me most is not the technical difficulty. It is the time lost — for want of listening, and for want of education.
Before ordering a test, learn to hear a story.
This is not a course. It is the couple's pathway, which you follow step by step.
In three months, you conduct the first consultation, you choose the technique, then you follow the couple through to the chosen technique: timed intercourse, insemination or IVF. Each month, you join a live ART case conference, on real anonymised cases.
Fertility care does not begin in an IVF laboratory. It begins with a consultation. And a consultation can be held anywhere.
Forty-five minutes, divided up. It is in no guideline: it is my own practice, built over sixteen years. Without this structure, a consultation drifts into small talk and tests ordered at random.
This structure was presented in full at the inaugural webinar on 9 September: how to open, how long to stay silent, how to turn a disordered account into a timeline that guides you, how to name their condition in one sentence they will repeat to the next doctor. Its handout is given to you the moment you register.
The module does not teach it again: it puts it to the test. You apply it in your own consultations, you write up your cases, and it is the way you conduct a consultation that is taken up in session — including reading a result and referral to the right investigations, at the lowest cost to the couple.
In an American study, the doctor cut in after eleven seconds (median value). Those who are not interrupted finish what they have to say in about six seconds.
Singh Ospina N. et al., Eliciting the Patient's Agenda, J Gen Intern Med, 2019.
The partner
He is involved in half of all cases. He is not refusing the test — he is refusing the verdict he believes is being passed on his virility. Once seen on his own, he is willing. You will learn how to bring him in, not how to convince him.
What goes unsaid
Religion, culture, taboos, practices. The termination before marriage. The infection treated in secret. The period pain she believes is normal. You will learn to create the conditions in which this information comes out.
You will step into eight consultations drawn from real situations, entirely de-identified.
At each step, you choose your question, your manner, your tests, your referral. Then the screen stops:
Pause. What would you do now?
You choose. Then I appear: “Here is what I chose to do, and above all why.”
Every couple carries things they will not volunteer. Your score does not depend on the question you asked — it depends on the conditions you created for the answer to come out. The debrief shows you what you did not reach.
- 01The absent man
- 02Tubal damage after infection
- 03The aftermath of a terminated pregnancy
- 04Endometriosis never asked about
- 05Late marriage and age
- 06The fibroid that is not the culprit
- 07False infertility
- 08Failure at another centre
Consult Express opens progressively from 6 November 2026, with Month 2.
- ◇The 45 + 15 timer
- ◇The dated timeline, filled in while you listen
- ◇The three columns: Her / Him / Couple
- ◇Sorting tests into three piles
- ◇Safety alerts, triggered automatically
- ◇The case summary, already written by the end
From Month 2, your fifteen minutes of writing after the consultation become three.
They do not come from a textbook. They come from sixteen years of following couples, from the first consultation to the technique. Each one corrects a mistake I see every week.
One of them, free, so you can see what I mean
An abnormal semen analysis is always confirmed at three months — the length of one spermatogenesis cycle. Except in one specific situation, where those three months are three months stolen from a couple who does not have them.
The other eleven answer questions you may already be asking yourself:
- ◇That HSG from last year — does it need repeating?
- ◇That collapsed AMH at 39 — what does it entitle you to say, and what does it not say at all?
- ◇This couple is asking for a test they saw on social media. What do you answer?
- ◇“Doctor, what is your success rate?” — the most poorly framed question you will be asked, and the one where the most credibility is lost.
- ◇A test experienced as unbearable: repeat it, or not?
The twelve rules are published over the course of the three months.
Every rule will save you time, spare an unnecessary test — or prevent a mistake.
Two dates, not to be confused
Cohort start
Tuesday 6 October 2026
The webinar handout is given to you the moment you register. The Month 1 workspace opens on 6 October: from that day you begin submitting your cases, without waiting for the first live session.
Registering after 6 October? The handout and the workspace open to you immediately: you are not catching up, you are starting. You then join the next live session.
First live session
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Opening of the pathway, then analysis of real cases you bring: anonymised cases of couples you follow, whose management is discussed live.
Two groups, two times:
- Midwives and nurses — 14:00 GMT (14:00 Abidjan · 16:00 Paris)
- Physicians and specialists — 16:00 GMT (16:00 Abidjan · 18:00 Paris)
Times are given in GMT, the reference — with their equivalent in Abidjan and Paris. Check yours if you are elsewhere.
The number of cases analysed per session is limited. Cases not covered are carried over to the following session.
| You learn | Supervision | |
|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | You learnFrom the first consultation to the choice of techniqueConsultation, female and male work-up, diagnosis, treatment cost and number of attempts, referralThe 7-stage method, applied to simulated couples. | Supervision1 h Zoom |
| Month 2 | You learnFrom protocol to inseminationProtocols, ultrasound basics, monitoring, triggering, preventing ovarian hyperstimulation, timed intercourse, insemination (IUI) | Supervision1 h Zoom |
| Month 3 | You learnIVF, from retrieval to transferOocyte retrieval, freezing, endometrial preparation, embryo transfer, luteal phase support, βhCG and first ultrasound, warning signs, announcing the result | Supervision1 h Zoom |
Each month, a live ART case conference on Zoom, on real anonymised cases. From one month to the next, you follow these couples through to their technique.
Three months is not a commercial duration. It is the time it takes to follow a couple from the first consultation to their technique — and it is also the length of a spermatogenesis cycle.
The pathway includes four Zoom sessions: an opening session, then a case review every month, live with me. Two separate groups: one for midwives and nurses, one for physicians.
Your real cases are worked through in session, with me. Not through a form, and not with an artificial intelligence: a practitioner who presents a case receives an answer from a doctor who has conducted this consultation thousands of times.
The dates of the following case reviews will be set together with the cohort, taking participants’ time zones into account. They are not fixed yet — this is information, not an omission.
No name, no date of birth, no file number is presented in session — age is enough.
- ◇General practitioners seeing couples planning a pregnancy
- ◇Obstetrician-gynaecologists who are not ART specialists
- ◇Midwives and nurses, within the legal framework of their country
- ◇Practitioners in maternity units, medical centres, district hospitals or private practice
- ◇Junior gynaecologists and residents looking for a structured approach
Physicians: the full pathway, then hands-on practice of monitoring, oocyte retrieval and embryo transfer at the Masterclass.
Midwives and nurses: Month 1, and your role at each step.
Midwife / nurse
$300
Month 1, and the midwife's role at each step
Physician
$600
The full pathway, which prepares you for the practice of monitoring, oocyte retrieval and embryo transfer at the Masterclass
After the three months, monthly supervision continues at $150/year for midwives and nurses, $300/year for physicians.
One-to-one session
$300
A one-hour one-to-one with Dr Manket-Kouassi on your own cases. Optional, at any point in the pathway, whatever your tier. It is open to practitioners who are not enrolled in the module.
Payment by credit card or PayPal. The webinar handout is given to you straight away.
Choose your tier, fill in your details, then pay by credit card (Stripe) or PayPal. The webinar handout is given to you straight away.
Choose my pathway
Secure payment by credit or debit card (Stripe) or PayPal. You will receive a confirmation email once the payment is validated. Registration is open. The number of cases analysed per session is limited; cases not covered are carried over to the following session.
Dr Eulalie Manket-Kouassi
Obstetrician-gynaecologist, specialist in fertility and assisted reproduction.
Founder and Medical Director of Clinique Notre Dame de la Tendresse, Abidjan.
The first Ivorian woman trained in IVF in Strasbourg, at Université Louis Pasteur.
In 2010, I opened this clinic alone, in a single consultation room. No laboratory, no investor. Today, a full IVF and ICSI centre, with more than fifteen thousand women supported.
Fertility does not begin in a laboratory. It begins with a well-conducted consultation.
We cannot see the whole of Africa. But we can train those who will see these women.
No. Its 39-page handout is given to you the moment you register: it carries the whole method, the seven stages and their timings. The module does not teach it again — it puts it to the test in your own consultations.
Not for the online preparation: a computer or a phone is enough. Hands-on practice takes place at the Masterclass, at CNDT in Abidjan.
Yes. This is not a specialist procedure: it is listening, reading, organising. Diagnosis, validation of prescriptions and assisted reproduction procedures remain with the physician — and the law depends on your country, so check it.
This training improves consultation, information, referral and documentation skills. It does not replace clinical judgement, the guidelines applicable in your country, or legal and professional requirements.
It confers no authorisation to perform ovarian stimulation, ultrasound, insemination, IVF, ICSI or any other assisted reproduction procedure outside your legal framework, your competence and appropriate monitoring resources.
The clinical situations presented are fictional and composite. No identifiable patient record is used.
A session the participant does not attend is neither postponed nor refunded. If a session is cancelled by Clinique Notre Dame de la Tendresse, it is rescheduled.
Usable from your very next consultation
Three months following the couple's pathway, from the first consultation through to the technique.