EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Nurse preceptorship program
This program pairs a nurse with medical students for three
12 hour shifts in the labour and delivery room. This has dramatically
changed the relationship between nurses and medical students
and helped to improve the medical students overall experience
in obstetrics. There are plans to expand this program to include
UBC midwifery students as well.
Interprofessional Normal Labour and Birth Workshop
This four-hour workshop is co-taught every six weeks by a
family physician, obstetrician, nurse, midwife and a doula.
It is attended by medical students during their 3rd year clerkship,
midwifery students in the 1st and 2nd years, and nursing students
in the 3rd year. It is constantly evolving with input from
the students and teachers. It promotes childbirth as a joyous,
normal event and also models interprofessional collaboration
for the students. This program has consistently been evaluated
exceptionally high by the participants.
Doula training
This course is taught by Kathie Lindstrom, Director of Perinatal
Programs for Douglas College. It is a weekend course offered
to UBC medical, midwifery and nursing students. The CMNH subsidizes
the cost so that students may attend this workshop at a substantially
reduced rate. To date, more than 60 students have taken this
course on their own time, without receiving any formal credit.
The graduates of this course become eligible to join the Adopt
a Medical or Nursing Student program (below).
Adopt a Medical or Nursing Student
Pregnant women attending midwifery clinics are asked to “adopt
a student” into their care. The student, who has attended
the above doula training, offers support to the woman and
her family while at the same time learning about midwifery
care. The student meets the woman prenatally, attends her
complete labour and birth, and usually visits her postpartum.
This program has been very successful and well-received by
both the students and the childbearing families. To date,
the program has only enrolled medical students but it has
been recently expanded to include nursing students.
Maternity Care Club
This is a UBC medical, midwifery and nursing student-led
initiative and is open to students in all of the years. They
organize several interdisciplinary events in the year and
invite any students that may be interested in providing maternity
care. In October 2004, they organized a panel discussion with
a nurse, doula, family physician, obstetrician and a midwife,
to talk about why they provide maternity care and how they
work it into their lives. They are also planning an evening
event in a “job fair” format, where a number of
work stations invite you to sample maternity care. We plan
to have all disciplines represented and present to answer
questions.
Single Room Maternity Care Teaching Rotation
Through funding received from a Practice Education Innovation
Fund (PEIF) grant, an exciting interdisciplinary teaching
rotation has been established on the new 18 bed Single Room
Maternity Care unit (SRMC) at BC Women’s Hospital.
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