Joint Annual Performance Review 2007 - Ministry of Health

Results: Pre-service Training (6)
Standard for Midwife teachers:
• 50% of midwife teachers seen had clinical "experience"
• No midwife teacher seen appears to have undertaken
any advanced midwifery study
• One third of midwife teachers appear to have undertaken
adequate education preparation, although 12 out of the
21 had undertaken the short Training of Trainers based
at TSMC
• Only one third midwife teachers seen had received LSS
training
• The media age of all midwife teachers seen was 45
years, the youngest being 32 years of age, the eldest 56
years of age.
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Results: Pre-service Training (7)
Midwifery training institutions:
• Inadequate Midwifery textbooks, models/ manikins,
training dolls, equipment to practice resuscitation of
newborn, equipment for LSS
• 1 of the 4 RTCs had no "proper" (functioning) clinical
skills/practice room
Student accommodation:
• Insufficient rooms for students, no room for preparing
food
General environment:
• Running water was a major problem in all RTCs except
TSMC, bathrooms in most RTCs were inadequate
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