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International trends and partnerships in midwifery education

Abstract:

Midwifery practice and midwifery education are inextricably intertwined. To prepare the midwife of the future it is necessary to offer her an education that provides her with the knowledge and skills necessary to practise safely and effectively. To do this, it is essential that the student midwife can work alongside more experienced midwives who work in the model that she is being taught. Practising midwives are the most influential role models for students, and thus must understand and believe in the model of midwifery that the student is being taught. Changes can be made to maternity systems in countries through legislation but the most significant change comes from socialisation of midwives and women to a new way of looking at maternity systems. When women and midwives start to do things differently, society as a whole begins to change and the dominant values of the maternity services can begin to change.

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Canada, midwifery education, midwifery partnership, midwifery students, model of care, New Zealand