Are midwives ready to provide quality evidence-based care after pre-service training? Curricula assessment in four countries-Benin, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

ABSTRACT: This research sought to map midwifery pre-service training curricula as part of the Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal morTality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa (ALERT) project conducted in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda. We conducted the review in two phases. In the first phase, online interviews were performed with the lead project midwives in all four study countries to get an overview of midwifery care providers' pre-service training courses, registration, and licensing requirements. We performed a mapping review of midwifery care providers' pre-service training curricula from different training institutions in the four study countries during the second phase. Curricula were reviewed and mapped against the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Essential Com

SUBMITTER: Moller AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021168 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature