Chiara Saroli Palumbo, MDCM (Cand.); Rose Hsu, BSc, MD (Cand.); Jocelyn Tomkinson, BSc; and Michael C. Klein, MD
ABSTRACT
Objectives: To determine pre-university students’ attitudes and beliefs about childbirth and identify key sources of information and knowledge.
Methods: A survey of 359 Quebec pre-university students (215 female, 144 male) was undertaken to identify sources of beliefs about birth...
→ Read More
Nichole Fairbrother, PhD, RPsych; Kathrin Stoll, MA, PhD (Cand.); Laura Schummers, BSc; and Elaine Carty, MSN, CNM
ABSTRACT
Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the views of a cohort of Canadian university students related to maternity care provider preferences and the reasons for these preferences. Relationships between care provider preferences, childbirth attitudes, and desire for epidural anesthesia...
→ Read More
Lisa Morgan, RM, BSc, BHScMW, MA
ASTRACT
For 50 years the professionalism literature has echoed the same sentiments; medical education places too much emphasis on the biological or technical aspects of medicine at the expense of the psychosocial or humanistic qualities such as caring, empathy, humility, compassion, and sensitivity.1 Thirty years ago, the discipline of sociology defined a profession, in...
→ Read More
Chiara Saroli Palumbo, MDCM (Cand.); Rose Hsu, BSc, MD (Cand.); Jocelyn Tomkinson, BSc; and Michael C. Klein, MD
ABSTRACT
Objectives: To determine pre-university students’ attitudes and beliefs about childbirth and identify key sources of information and knowledge.
Methods: A survey of 359 Quebec pre-university students (215 female, 144 male) was undertaken to identify sources of beliefs about birth...
→ Read More
Laura Schummers, BSc, Saraswathi Vedam, RM, FACNM, MSN, SciD (h.c.), Nichole Fairbrother, PhD, Rpsych,
Michael C. Klein, MD, CCFP, FAAP, FCFP, ABFP, FCPS and Janusz Kaczorowski, MA PhD
ABSTRACT
The debate between professional groups in Canada about the advisability of planned home birth continues.
The Canadian Birth...
→ Read More
Kathrin Stoll, PhD and Eileen Hutton, PhD
ABSTRACT
Despite mounting evidence of the health benefits of delayed cord clamping of term and preterm neonates,
Canadian practice guidelines about the optimal timing of cord clamping have not been developed. At the time
the study was conducted, the Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC) recommended early
clamping as...
→ Read More
Nicole Bennett, RM, MA, and Nadya Burton, PhD
ABSTRACT
The funding structure of midwifery in Ontario enables midwives to provide care to women without provincial health care coverage. is article explores midwives’ experiences in providing care to two key groups of women without provincial insurance: 1) women who lack coverage as a result of...
→ Read More
Joanna Besana MSc, Midwifery Student
ABSTRACT
Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) will soon become the standard of care for prenatal genetic testing. NIPD uses DNA and has the potential to sequence the entire fetal genome and detect many diverse traits. Although both the public and midwives support the implementation of NIPD, concerns arise owing...
→ Read More
by Vicki Van Wagner, RM, PhD, Hedrey Chu, RM
ABSTRACT
Simulation has become a vital part of health care education. Growing evidence supports its use to assist students in learning both basic and emergency skills. Expensive simulation models exist and some offer midwifery students excellent learning opportunities. However, many simulations can be highly effective and much more accessible...
→ Read More
