DREAM: Empowering Preclinical Medical Students With Labor Support.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Delivery Resources, Experiences, and Advocacy for Moms (DREAM) is an interprofessional service-learning program that empowers preclinical medical students by training them to provide labor support. Boston Medical Center is a safety-net hospital featuring an in-house doula service with limited coverage capacity. Consequently, many patients do not receive continuous labor support, although evidence shows that continuous labor support improves outcomes and may help reduce birth-outcome health disparities. We present a pragmatic approach to integrating preclinical students as labor-support staff and outline the methods and content of the training process as well as the evaluations used to assess program effectiveness.

Methods

Students were trained by doulas (Birth S

SUBMITTER: Shakartzi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6342387 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature