Inter-professional Perinatal Simulation training: A valuable educational model to improve competencies amongst student midwives in Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Simulation training is a powerful and evidence-based teaching method for students and healthcare professionals. The described educational model of Inter-professional Perinatal Simulation training is the result of a collaborative project with the Erasmus University College Brussels, the Medical School of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the University Hospital Brussels. This model enhances student midwives to acquire competencies in all fields of midwifery according to national and European legislation and to the International Confederation of Midwives Global Standards for Midwifery Education. In our educational program, simulation training enhanced the achievement of decision-making and inter-professional communication competences. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd

Keywords

Author Keywords

Competencies Inter-professional education Midwifery education Perinatal simulation

Index Keywords

Teaching clinical competence human procedures Decision making interpersonal communication Vocational education curriculum education health student human experiment medical school educational model Models, Educational Students, Health Occupations competency-based education simulation training Belgium midwife university hospital midwifery education Midwifery midwifery student law achievement standards Brussels Capital Region perinatal care

Author Affiliations

Department Health Care, Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Department Health Care, Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Jette, Belgium, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Jette, Belgium

Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie, Jette, Belgium, Department of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Jette, Belgium

Department Health Care, Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Rehabilitation Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, BRU, Belgium

Funding & Acknowledgements

No funding information

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Inter-professional Perinatal Simulation training: A valuable educational model to improve competencies amongst student midwives in Brussels, Belgium

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