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Direct linkOlsen, Jessica Lyn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Navigating the period of transition from a student to a clinician can be challenging for new graduate midwives and advanced practice providers. With exponential growth in these professions coupled with a complex American healthcare system, there has been increased desire for fellowships for advanced practice providers. This sentiment has been…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Obstetrics, Outcomes of Education, Fellowships
Emma Brooks – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
Researching in heterogeneous communities can present challenges for the most experienced of researchers, especially in the context of ethnographic work, where the dynamism and unpredictability of a research setting can make it difficult to anticipate the languages spoken. Drawing on data from multilingual health consultations, I reflect on…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Health Services
'ISeeYou': A Woman-Centred Care Education and Research Project in Dutch Bachelor Midwifery Education
Fontein-Kuipers, Yvonne; Romeijn, Enja; Zwijnenberg, Arwen; Eekhof, Willemijn; van Staa, AnneLoes – Health Education Journal, 2018
Objective: To examine how student midwives in higher education learn to become competent and confident woman-centred practitioners. Design: Participant observation study using a 'buddy' approach. Setting: Bachelor of Midwifery students in one higher education institution in the Netherlands Methods: First-year student midwives followed one woman…
Descriptors: Females, Obstetrics, Bachelors Degrees, Foreign Countries
Download full textPorta, Carolyn M.; Mann, Erin M.; Amiri, Rohina; Avery, Melissa D.; Azim, Sheba; Conway-Klaassen, Janice M.; Golzareh, Parvin; Joya, Mahdawi; Mwikarago, Emil Ivan; Nejabi, Mohammad Bashir; Olejniczak, Megan; Radhakrishnan, Raghu; Tengera, Olive; Thomas, Manuel S.; Weinkauf, Julia L.; Wiesner, Stephen M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Despite ongoing insecurity, Afghanistan has demonstrated improvement in health outcomes. Reasons for this success include a strategic public-private health service delivery model and investment in Afghan health care workforce development. Afghan universities have the primary responsibility for ensuring that an adequate health care workforce is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Public Health, Delivery Systems, Labor Force Development
Kiernan, Louise; White, Eoin; Morrissey, Kellie – Design and Technology Education, 2021
Contemporary design education seeks to prepare students for the workplace through studiobased learning that replicates real world practice. Design problems in the workplace have become increasingly complex and one example of this is within the area of design for healthcare, which requires multidisciplinary collaboration between various…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Design, Partnerships in Education, Online Courses
Areskoug-Josefsson, Kristina; Schindele, Anna Chuchu; Deogan, Charlotte; Lindroth, Malin – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2019
Knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) by health care, police, legal and social work professionals has been shown to be insufficient. This lack of competence is likely to affect the quality of services. The aim of this study was to describe SRHR indicators in educational programmes in health care, police, legal and social…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Health Services, Civil Rights, Physical Therapy
Joyce, Jeffrey N. – Journal of Research Administration, 2013
Independent academic medical centers (IAMC) are challenged to develop and support a research enterprise and maintain primary goals of healthcare delivery and financial solvency. Strategies for promoting translational research have been shown to be effective at institutions in the top level of federal funding, but not for smaller IAMCs. The…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Hospitals, Research, Sustainability
Velez, Olivia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Midwives in Ghana provide the majority of rural primary and maternal healthcare services, but have limited access to data for decision making and knowledge work. Few mobile health (mHealth) applications have been designed for midwives. The study purpose was to design and test an mHealth application (mClinic) that can improve data access and reduce…
Descriptors: Family Planning, Participant Observation, Self Efficacy, Testing
Fowler, Cathrine; Lee, Alison – Studies in Continuing Education, 2007
Many healthy human experiences and practices have become medicalized and professionalized within health during the past century. In the example used in this article, the legitimation of formal, "evidence-based" scientific knowledge about parenting within nursing and midwifery can have the effect of replacing and discrediting embodied, informal and…
Descriptors: Obstetrics, Health Services, Figurative Language, Constructivism (Learning)
World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1979
Guidelines for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of nationwide programs for the training and utilization of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) are presented. The guide begins with a chart outlining the steps in the development and evaluation of TBA programs. The next section discusses the formulation of basic policies regarding the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Attendants, Check Lists, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedPerloff, Janet D. – Future of Children, 1992
Reviews evidence about health care resources currently available to children and pregnant women in the United States. Evidence suggests that the maldistribution of resources remains a serious threat to health care access for women and children at greatest risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes and child morbidity and mortality. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, At Risk Persons, Children, Delivery Systems
Verderese, Maria de Lourdes; Turnbull, Lily M. – 1975
The publication provides guidelines for assisting developing countries in determining strategies for the utilization and training of traditional birth attendants (TBAs). TBA's are persons (usually women in rural areas) who assist the mother at childbirth and who initially acquired their skills through experience rather than formal training. After…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Attendants, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations
California Univ., San Francisco. Center for California Health Workforce Studies. – 2000
Surveys were mailed to all nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs) and certified nurse midwives (CNMs) registered in California, asking questions about education, labor force participation, specialty, and location and type of practice site, as well as the demographic characteristics of these professionals and their patients. Response…
Descriptors: Adults, Demography, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
