Problem: Little is known about the educational impact of providing routine, online feedback from women on midwifery student learning and clinical practice.
Background: Feedback on students' clinical performance has historically been provided by lecturers and clinical supervisors. Women's feedback is not routinely collected or evaluated for impact on student learning.
Introduction: ePortfolios are increasingly used in health professional clinical education. However, the nature of ePortfolios varies greatly amongst programs, as does the software, purpose, and institutional cost.
Objectives: An integrative review of the literature was conducted to determine how ePortfolios are being used in pre-registration health programs to enhance clinical learning.
Aim: This study describes a novel framework used to evaluate the feasibility of an online survey to routinely collect women's feedback about their continuity of care experiences with Bachelor of Midwifery students during the clinical practicum.
Background: The extent to which secure online platforms can efficiently distribute surveys and collect routine feedback from women receiving continuity of midwifery care experiences by Bachelor of Midwifery students needs to be effectively assessed and evaluated.
Methods: Using a co-design approach, the teaching team, program software developers, information technology and cybersecurity experts, students, consumers and clinical placement officers were consulted in development of survey content and processes.
Background: Pre-registration midwifery students in Australia are required to engage in a minimum of ten continuity of care experiences (CoCE). Students recruit and gain consent of each woman to provide CoCE under direct supervision of a registered health professional, usually a midwife. Clinical outcomes for women who had CoCE with a midwifery student placed in a continuity of midwifery care (CMC) or fragmented models are rarely reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pre-registration midwifery students in Australia undertake a minimum of ten continuity of care experiences with childbearing women. However, women are rarely asked to formally evaluate this care by students.
Aim: To evaluate data from a routine, web-based survey of women about having a midwifery student provide a continuity of care experience.