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YEAR: 1973

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Educational programs for personnel and parents in family planning.

AUTHORS

Pendleton E

SOURCE

In: Forman, A.M., Fischman, S.H., and Woodville, L., eds. New horizons in

midwifery. (Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the International Confederation

of Midwives, Washington, D.C., October 28-November 3, 1972) London,

International Confederation of Midwives, 1973. p. 153-159. 1 ref

ABSTRACT

In both the U.S. and elsewhere in the world it has become essential that persons other than physicians be given

considerable responsibility in the delivery of family planning services. Throughout the world the midwife or nurse

midwife appears as the most logical person to provide these services, and the idea of further training the person who

has shown competence in providing maternal and infant care seems logical. On the basis of the experience of the

training program for nurse-midwives and certified midwives from developing countries supported by the Rockefeller

Foundation, the Population Council, and the Ford Foundation, the following suggestions for developing a training

program in family planning for nurse-midwives are made: 1) support and cooperation of some members of the

medical staff are essential; 2) the training program should include comprehensive instruction in all phases of family

planning, understanding of the basic concepts of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive system, complete

indoctrination in the methods of family planning and an exposure to experimental methods under investigation,

development of proper methodology by each trainee, accurate record keeping and follow-up of patients, instruction in

demography and the economics of family planning, orientation into the social problems of family planning, and clinic

planning and managmeent; 3) a 3-month course of study; and 4) performance of a minimum of 100 pelvic

examinations, breast examinations, and Pap smears and insertion of at leat 20 IUDs and fitting at least 10

diaphrams as minimal requirements for completion of the trianing. The goal is to have foreign students return to their

countries and develop training programs for their colleagues. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT8T 562-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Educational programs for personnel and parents in family

planning.", is(are) Pendleton E. The source of this article is "In: Forman, A.M., Fischman, S.H., and Woodville, L.,

eds. New horizons in midwifery. (Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives,

Washington, D.C., October 28-November 3, 1972) London, International Confederation of Midwives, 1973. p. 153-159.

1 ref". This article was published in 1973 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT8T 562-06.

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