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Midwifery courses are known to be stressful,1 mainly due to the worries of managing clinical placements, completing assignments and not…

Introduction  Internationally, mentoring is an essential part of undergraduate midwifery education. A mentor is different to a preceptor because a…

Rising rates of induction and caesarean In high-income countries, rates of induction of labour and caesarean section (CS) are rising…

Transition from midwifery student to graduate After years of dedicated study and hours of supervised practice, the midwifery student finally…

There has been an expansion in research focussed on how best to prepare midwifery students for practice over recent years….

Continuity of midwifery care provides superior maternal and neonatal outcomes (Sandall et al., 2016). Access to continuity of care models…

A Collaborative is as strong as the people who contribute to it. The Transforming Maternity Care Collaborative continues to grow….

Women value midwifery students and midwifery students value women. One Australian university has begun to collect routine, ongoing, web-based feedback…

Access to continuity of midwifery care (CoMC) models in Australia is increasing but the capacity of the emerging midwifery workforce…

Collectively, the Transforming Maternity Care Collaborative generate a large volume of high quality, impactful research. This week has seen the…