Hello everyone

Thanks to Benson for bringing up a topic that I've been mulling over for the last few months.

I am thinking about what topic I'll pursue for my EdD research. One of the things I am extremely interested in is the resources that are freely available for us on the Internet to use in midwifery education and to support midwifery professional development. I get a lot of inquiries, especially from midwifery educators, if I know of a central repository where they can go to find resources and/or learning objects to support their teaching, especially in the online environment.

I know this question is probably more appropriate for an education group, but I'll ask it here anyway. Does anyone know of any central international online repository where education materials and resources can be deposited using a free, open access framework? Or or there any immediate plans to develop such a place?

thank you, Sarah

From: A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health research. [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Benson Milimo [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 August 2011 09:48
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Subject: multiple choice questions_ true and false

Dear colleagues,
Could any one be knowing where i can get a bank of MCQs in midwifery especially True and false type?
Thank you

Benson Williesham Milimo,
STTI Country Representative,

Department of Nursing sciences,

School of Medicine,

Moi University,

P.O Box 4606-30100,

Eldoret-Kenya.

Tel:+254-722-583-478/+254734095676

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From: Soo Downe <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tue, August 2, 2011 10:34:00 AM
Subject: query about the use of vaginal examination in labour and/or the use of the partogramme

Dear all

We are completing a protocol for a review on the value of the vaginal examination as a measure of progress in labour. We have been advised that the VE is never used without the partogramme (and without attention to all the elements on the partogramme). From our clinical experience, we are not sure that this is the case - we have practical experience of the VE being used as a measure of progress in labour without reference to the partogramme (even where it is part of the routine recording process) but our experience may well be very limited. We would be very interested in your experience in the following areas:

1. In your experience, is vaginal examination ever used on its own, without using a partogramme?

2. Where the partogramme is used as a record, are all the elements of it usually used in a decision on whether to intervene?

Many thanks for your advice

All the best

Soo

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