Abstract
Background
One of the Indonesian Government’s strategies to reduce maternal mortality rates has
been to place a midwife in every village to provide midwifery care and facilitate
essential primary healthcare services. To increase the numbers of midwives, the Indonesian
Government began opening midwifery schools. However, Indonesia’s maternal mortality
rates remained high. This raises the question of the quality of midwifery education
in Indonesia and how this education could be strengthened so that midwifery plays
a key role in reducing maternal mortality rates.
Aim of the research
The aim of this study was to identify the barriers and enablers to strengthening midwifery
education in Indonesia.
Methods
A qualitative descriptive approach and in-depth interviews was the method used with
37 participants from 12 midwifery schools in eight cities situated in six provinces
in Indonesia. Indonesian midwives, midwifery lecturers, midwifery students, newly
graduated midwives, and obstetricians were interviewed in Bahasa Indonesia. Interviews
were transcribed, translated, and thematically analysed following Braun and Clark
(2006).
Findings
This article focuses on findings on “midwifery clinical experience”, a theme which
contained four sub-themes: “effective hands-on clinical experience”, “theory-practice
gap”, “role of the mentor in practice”, and “the system in the clinical environment”.
Conclusion
This study highlights barriers to preparing midwifery students for obtaining adequate
midwifery knowledge and skills during clinical placement. Quality clinical experience
would improve knowledge and skills for better preparedness for students to competently
meet their role as midwives, contributing to the strengthening of midwifery education
in Indonesia.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: March 18, 2021
Accepted:
March 2,
2021
Received in revised form:
February 27,
2021
Received:
December 14,
2020
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- Corrigendum to “Strengthening midwifery education through clinical experience: Findings from a qualitative study in Indonesia” [Women Birth 35 (2022) 87–95]Women and BirthVol. 35Issue 5
- PreviewThe author “Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani” regrets that the affiliation “Department of Midwifery, Karya Husada Institute of Health Science, Jl Soekarno Hatta P.O. Box 153, Kediri, East Java 64225, Indonesia” seems to be invalid since last year as she has resigned from the previous work and moved to the new office (Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia). Hence, she wants this affiliation to be changed to “Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia” and the e-mail address to be changed from “[email protected]” to “[email protected]” as the alteration of the affiliation and the e-mail address would significantly impact the current task as the published paper is considered one of the essential tasks completed.
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