The Midwifery programme is structured within the national frame work for postgraduate diploma for 18 months benchmarked with ICM. The program emphasise on continued development through learning acquired from experience of work and life. Outcomes are perceived in terms of development of certain competencies and potentialities that continue to improve. The acquisition of knowledge involves the student developing her own useful strategies. The program develops student thinking, building critical and analytical skills and to enhance the reflective midwife who has the competence and confidence to practice with increasing autonomy. They will be motivated to view education as self-directed and a continuing life long experience. Knowledge acquired throughout the course will increase in depth and breadth as each new experience builds on what has previously been introduced. Development of reflective capability along with expansion of the knowledge will ensure that theory and practice will be related.
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The post graduate diploma is intended to prepare Omani female nurses to become qualified midwives who will be independent practitioners in normal midwifery and to benefit the maternal and child health services in Oman by: • Providing midwives with increased skills of critical thinking and problem solving, • Improve the care of women and their families through the enhanced skill base. • Increased skills in research to develop the evidence base for practice. • Cost effective provision of midwives at high level as first line care providers in the primary health care centres. • Maintaining the recruitment of midwives within the country. The ultimate objective of preparing midwives is to improve the maternal and child health services of Oman for future generations. Therefore, the programme will consider traditional practices, cultural values and religious beliefs along with the current research, ethics and quality standards in normal and complicated midwifery. It will provide advanced education that fulfils the key roles to maximum potential along with the health care team. Additionally, it is imperative that they have to build systematically upon their initial education continuing their professional education in ways which ensure they maintain competence to meet the needs of Omani women for midwifery car
Postgraduate Diploma in Midwifery - 2022 | |
Postgraduate Diploma in Midwifery - 2021 | |
Postgraduate Diploma in Midwifery - 2017 | |
Postgraduate Diploma in Midwifery - 2023 |