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Midwives were invited to complete an anonymous online survey, which remained open for 4 weeks in February 2023. The survey was hosted securely by Qualtrics XMTM survey platform, and the checklist for...
Prior to 2019, practice staff were largely involved in midwifery education through a ‘mentorship’ arrangement, which saw each student midwife assigned to a specific ‘sign-off’ mentor who they were...
Before lockdowns were enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic, interprofessional education as part of midwifery education was undertaken primarily using face-to-face methods (Luyben et al, 2020; Sy et...
The focus of this review was the evaluation of articles describing the use of simulation in midwifery education. A search was carried out using the online database PUBMED for articles published...
Bangor University has a longstanding history of working with HEIW in the delivery of its midwifery programme. In 2021, Bangor successfully bid to tender new contracts with HEIW to deliver midwifery...
In Northern Ireland, at the time of the revised changes to observed simulated clinical examinations (OSCEs), undergraduate midwifery education was provided by a higher education institute accredited...
Medicine has been slow to establish involvement of experts by experience, but has shown that all curricula lack theoretically informed perspectives (Regan de Bere and Nunn, 2016; Spencer, 2016), while...
Learning through simulation is a widely used and effective pedagogy for clinical skills, encouraging students to think flexibly and develop competence, safe practice and understanding, closing the gap...
In 2018, the Department of Health and Social Care (2018) announced plans to expand the numbers of registered midwives working in the NHS. To facilitate this growth, Health Education England (HEE,...
Whether in clinical or academic settings, all midwives are educators, with a responsibility to nurture student confidence in evidence-based practice and research; partnership working between practice...
A mixed-methods design was used for this study (Tashakkori and Teddlie, 2003). Mixing positivism and intepretivism by adopting a quantitative approach allowed for scope and scale, while the...
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