Hello Karen
We are just at the beginning of our work. Thank you for your help. I' lucky about your proposition to pass my message to Cathy Rowan. At the moment I'm looking for literature about PBL in context to widwifery education. I have found two studies concerning your eduational programm (Thomas GB, Ouant VM, Cooke P 1998 The development of a problem-based curriculum in midwifery Midwivery 14:261-265 / Evaluation of a problem-based curriculum in midwifery Mc Court Ch, Thomas BG 2001 Evaluation of a problem-Based currriculum in midwifery Midwifery 17:323-331). Are there more studies?
I'd like to know more about the structure of the programme developed by your school.
Regards
Lisa
Lisa Fankhauser
Berufsschullehrerin
Hebammenschule Bern
Ausbildungszentrum Insel
Murtenstrasse 10
3010 Bern
031 632 43 34
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Hello Lisa
You are lucky! We (Faculty of Health at Thames Valley University) have a PBL/EBL midwifery programme that implements it across the whole programme and have extensive evaluation and years of implementation. I am passing this onto Cathy Rowan in the midwifery team, as I am sure she can exchange ideas as one of the leads in this area. Have you thought about a trip over?
Regards
Karen
Karen Sheehy
Professional Development Co-ordinator
Faculty of Health & Human Sciences
Thames Valley University
Tel: 01753 697892
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Subject: PBL-curriculum for midwives: How to design a curriculum?
I'm a lecturer for midwifery education at Berne in Switzerland.
We are engaged in developing an new PBL-curriculum. The intention is to adopt a PBL approach to the whole curriculum. Future students must succeed at an undergraduate level (bachelor) with 180 ECTS. The progamme is conceptualized as a direct entery midwivery training (lasts tree years at a fulltime level).
Who is experienced in designing a problem-based curriculum for midwives?
My questions are the following:
How to apply the educational principles of PBL to the curriculum?
How to structure the curriculum: What structure ist the best for a PBL- curriculum? What is the ideal length of a unit/cycle? How to arrange "theoritical" units in relation to practical units (clinical placement?
What are the difficulties in designing a PBL-curriculum?
Tips and tricks for the design of a PBL-curriculum?
I'm interessed in an exchance.
Greatings
Lisa Fankhauser
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