SOMSA - Midwifery Education: A new dawn- seeking new approaches towards 2015 and beyond
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SOMSA - Midwifery Education: A new dawn- seeking new approaches
towards 2015 and beyond
Elgonda Bekker, SOMSA &ICM Education Standing Committee
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Midwifery education new developments
• International standards for midwifery education
• International standards for midwifery regulation
• Essential competencies for basic midwifery education
• Education standing committee• Skills/equipment lists Nov 2012
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Triple Gap identified by SOWMR
• Competencies:Not enough fully qualified midwives• CoverageEMOC services- poorly staffed and equipped• AccessAccess issues from women’s perspectives are
often not addressed
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Importance of triad of ERA
• Education, regulation and professional association
• Education: produce midwives proficient to practice all the essential competencies
• Optimal standards are unmet• Need to improve: Curricula, faculty,
educational resources and supervised clinical practice
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Recommendations from report
Regulatory bodies:• Protect the title “midwife” and establish scope of
practice• Establish criteria for entry, educational standards
and practice competencies• Accredit schools and education criteria• License and re-license midwives, maintain codes
of ethics, codes of conduct and manages sanctioning
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Recommendations from report cont.
Midwifery training institutions:• Curricula that produce graduates proficient in all
essential competencies• Use ICM standards to ensure theory- practice
balance• Recruit faculty, maintain their competencies in
midwifery and transformative education• Promote research and development of leadership
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SOMSA
• Continuing work with SANC, Laws committee- scope of specialist midwife practice
• Linking with DENOSA- SOMSA not functioning as trade union
• Resource and advisory capacity
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Questions
• 1) Nurse or midwife?
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2) Does our education address the needs and context?
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3) Competence: Knowledge, skills, professional behaviour and clinical
judgement translated in care
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Philosophy and model of care
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Madness?
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