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New standards for the accreditation of midwifery education

The new Standards for the Accreditation of Three Year Bachelor of Midwifery Programs has been released by the Australian College of Midwives. All the current, and future courses will be required to meet these standards, which have resulted from three years of wide consultation amongst key stakeholders.

The aim of these Standards is to ensure that midwives will have a similar level of education and experience regardless of the State or institution where they have studied. For the first time, midwives will have readily identifiable competencies that they can use for registration portability across not only Australia, but the world. Graduates will meet the minimum skills required for practising independently and autonomously, an essential if midwives are to be available for the proposed caseloading practices it is hoped will evolve soon from legislative changes.

The philosophies embodied in the Standards are those of: woman centred care; primary health care; cultural safety; “following through” women to gain well-rounded experience, and the goal of graduates capable of undertaking the full role and sphere of midwifery practice according to the International Definition of a Midwife.

Some of the specific key Standards that B Mid programs must meet are:

• A course of a minimum of 3000 hours (3 years) of which theory constitutes no less than 1500 hours and midwifery practice constitutes no less than 1500 hours.
• The involvement of at least 10% consumer representatives on all program related committees.
• Practical experience for students that enables: a minimum of 30 follow-through experiences, 40 births as primary care giver for birth and immediately afterwards, 100 antenatal visits and 100 postnatal visits, with placements in all areas of maternity care provision in the community and hospitals.

These Standards will ensure high quality midwives graduate from our Universities, fully equipped to undertake the broad sweep of midwifery practice in whatever setting they wish.

I am impressed by the efforts of those involved in identifying and establishing these criteria and the collaborative approach that been used to ensure agreement. It is not uncommon for Universities to jealously guard their course requirements and curricula in ways that ultimately lead to uneven abilities of graduates across a range of institutions. That a unifying, collaborative approach has been achieved in this instance, to ensure quality across all institutions for the benefit of the country, employers, students and the community deserves recognition and applause. A fantastic effort!

Posted by andrea at February 01, 2003 04:28 PM

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hello
iam midwifery student in graguate (ms degree)
and my thesis is about accreditation standards
in midwifery education in diffrent country.
can you help me about it?
what is the standards for accreditation of midwifery school or education in your country?
sincerely faranak from iran university of Isfahan

Posted by: faranak safdari on April 20, 2003 06:35 PM

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hello
iam midwifery student in graguate (ms degree)
and my thesis is about accreditation standards
in midwifery education in diffrent country.
can you help me about it?
what is the standards for accreditation of midwifery school or education in your country?
sincerely faranak from iran university of Isfahan

Posted by: faranak safdari on April 20, 2003 06:38 PM

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