Dear Ginette,
Good work on the doctoral program! And am glad to see you are focusing on
education. It is an area in Midwifery that needs some attention and
validation.
In response to your question, I'd like to throw out a constant concern the
NYU midwifery faculty has - how do we keep midwifery strongly and
concretely in the curriculum when all the trends are pushing us toward the
pathology side of practice, i.e., the ACC exam is heavily medical model,
the practice side (and therefore the students' experience) is heavily
medicalization, and the expansion of midwifery into primary care makes it
necessary for all of us to know pathology? The normal gets lost in all
that crises management. How do we balance the scales or provide the data
for evidence-based midwifery care that is truly midwifery?
Please keep me posted on your progress. If I can be of help in any way,
let me know. Pat
At 10:45 PM 9/17/00 EDT, you wrote:
>My name is Ginette Lange. I am a nurse-midwife educator at the School of
>Health Related Profession, University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark
New
>Jersey.
>I am presently in the midst of writing a dissertation on the content and
>focus of midwifery education. Would appreciate any thoughts re: how to
better
>integrate unique midwifery philosophy /skills into a modern education
>program, how to truly delineate our body of knowledge and infuse it into
our
>students
>
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