©National College of Midwifery Course Syllabus 2014
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Course Title: MSM- MW 560: Development of a Community Program to Help Mothers/Babies
Credits: 4
Course Description: The MSM candidate develops and implements a community program to
help mothers and babies. The program should be based on actual community need. The
student researches the most successful strategies, develops a strategy, and starts a working
community program to help mothers and babies.
Learning Activities:
A. Write an essay that illustrates what areas of MCH need to be most urgently improved in
your community. Include research and health statistics where appropriate.
B. Evaluate which of the evidence-based strategies would be most useful and defend
these for your community.
C. Determine which one you will implement.
D. Describe the strategy for implementing your plan, the agencies and services with which
you will collaborate, what responsibilities each of them will carry out, the expected
outcome of your program if successful, the evaluation mechanism and follow-up plans.
Learning Materials / Resources:
Please use texts less than 5 years old or most recent edition.
1. Recent publications (journal articles, books, etc.) on the successes and challenges in
public health strategies around the world.
Evaluation Tools / Methods:
Learning Objectives count for 100% of the final completion:
1. Program development in the community in fact underway, verified by preceptor.
Learning Objectives:
A. In an essay, describe the maternal-infant need in your community that is most important
and urgent in your opinion.
B. Identify evidence-based strategies to deal with the described need.
C. Develop a program that helps to meet this need in your community.
D. Implement the program.
E. Document this program in a portfolio that can be easily presented to other midwives and
researchers who are interested in innovative strategies to address MCH issues.
Course Credit:
Course Credit:
One Academic credit equals approximately 15 hours of formal time plus 30 hours of additional
study or homework. Formal time is defined as the amount of time taken to answer the Learning
Objectives to the level of 80% and to complete any learning activities to the preceptor's
satisfaction, including any time spent face to face with the preceptor. Informal time includes
any time spent actively reading relevant sources and textbook/s, researching Learning
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©National College of Midwifery Course Syllabus 2014
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Objectives, and studying for examinations. The difference between undergraduate and
graduate credits is not one of quantity, but of quality, as assessed by the preceptor.
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