"Just tell us what we need to know"

My personal philosophy when it comes to educating student midwives involves the following commitments:

• the creation of lifelong learners
• the creation of a community of online learning that provides support to each other
• that the education of potential midwives is about pregnant women it is NOT about the student midwives.

I want to remind student midwives that midwifery courses are designed about creating midwives that are competent and safe for pregnant women and their babies.  Therefore the course whichever you chose, is actually NOT about YOU it is about the women and babies that will eventually put their lives in your hands.

You have the potential position of power and trust. As an educator I need to be sure you understand that. when I design courses I am measuring a number of elements, that include your ability to:

• gather information
• the ability to confirm your gathering of information
• confirm your use of knowledge
• make use of knowledge
• to analyse knowledge
• to put together knowledge
• to judge the outcome or evaluate care provided
• that you can judge the outcome