Joint Annual Performance Review 2007 - Ministry of Health

Results: Pre-service Training (8)
Educational process:
• Educational process were not very student-centered, did
not support problem-based learning, critical thinking and
decision making
• None had adequate QI mechanism - none had formal
mechanism for monitoring progress of students that
included clinical staff
Clinical practice:
• Most RTCs had inadequate clinical sites, both in terms of
number of sites and quality of sites for clinical practice
• No RTCs had a formal mechanism for preparing clinical
sites for students prior placement or for involving clinical
staff in the assessment of students' progress
• Clinical facilities were not interested in students
• Teachers form RTCs did not come to work with their
students
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Results: Pre-service Training (9)
Competencies in new graduates: the overall
competency is uniformly well below other midwives
assessed, questions must be asked concerning if current
graduates are exiting from programmes with the full
compliment of essential core competencies
Chart 5.1. Comparison of competency in selected
skills: New graduates/All midwives
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53.4
% of MWs observed to be competent
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40
30
20
10
0
41.4
25.9
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8.6
0
infect prev inf resus bimanual active mgmt
selected skills
all MW (n= 58)
new (n= 9)
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