Titre : | Midwifery student practice grades : case study and discussion (2020) |
Auteurs : | Samantha Chenery-Morris |
Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
Dans : | Midirs. Midwifery Digest (Vol. 30, n° 1, march 2020) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 20-26 |
Langues: | Anglais |
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Paramédical (MeSH) Compétences ; Enseignement professionnel ; Etudiant sage-femme ; Évaluation des pratiques professionnelles ; Grande-Bretagne ; Présentations de cas |
Résumé : |
Background: Assessment of student competence is a key component of undergraduate professional programmes such as midwifery. The competencies required to be eligible for registration as a midwife in the United Kingdom (UK), are set by the regulatory body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The NMC (2009)Standards for pre-registration, introduced mandatory grading of student midwifery practice.
Objective: To examine and discourse about the practice grades of student midwives, at one UK university, over a five-year time span. Method: A case study methodology with multiple sources of data collected over five years was undertaken between 2011-2015. Data included all student practice grades (n=124), 11 group interviews with student midwives (n=51), one group interview with midwifery lecturers (n=5) and individual interviews with midwives (n=15). Results: The majority of students received high grades for their practice (above 70%) and only a few failed in clinical practice. One interpretation of this finding is that most students were performing well and deemed competent to practice. However, the amount of time available for midwives to observe the students' performance in clinical practice was variable, students thought that social interactions with their midwife affected the grading process and therefore the grade was not always considered an objective measurement of their performance. Implications: Assessing midwifery student competence is critical to ensuring safe care for women and babies. Over the next two years all UK midwifery curricula will be developed in response to the NMC's (2019a, 2019b) new future midwife standards and Standards for student supervision and assessment (NMC 2018), therefore the profession needs to consider how best to assess students' practice. |
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