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      Academic education of midwives in Germany (part 2): Opportunities and challenges for the further development of the profession of midwifery. Position paper of the Midwifery Science Committee (AHW) in the DACH Association for Medical Education (GMA) Translated title: Akademische Ausbildung von Hebammen in Deutschland (Teil 2): Chancen und Herausforderungen zur Weiterentwicklung der Profession. Positionspapier des Ausschuss Hebammenwissenschaft (AHW) in der Gesellschaft für medizinische Ausbildung (GMA)

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          The objective of academic training is to prepare midwives as independent healthcare professionals to make a substantial contribution to the healthcare of women in their reproductive years as well as to the health of their children and families. This article therefore describes the professional and educational requirements derived from the legal midwifery competencies within the new midwifery act. Furthermore, it identifies the conditions that need to be established to enable midwives in Germany to practise to their full scope in compliance with statutory responsibilities.

          Educational science, academic efforts, policymaking and accompanying research should work in synergy. This in turn enables midwives to achieve the maximum scope of their skills, with the objective of promoting physiological pregnancies and births. Consequently, it can strengthen early parenthood in alignment with the national health objectives of “health around childbirth”.

          The academisation of the midwifery profession presents a profound opportunity for professional development in Germany. It is essential that midwives receive training based on the principles of educational science and care structures that are yet to be developed. This can enable them to perform within the wide range of their professional tasks to the highest standards, thereby ensuring the optimal care of their clients. Moreover, there is a chance to implement sustainable improvements in healthcare provision for women and their families during the reproductive phase and the period of parenthood in Germany.

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          Die akademische Bildung soll Hebammen in die Lage versetzen, als selbstständige Gesundheitsfachpersonen einen umfassenden Beitrag in der Gesundheitsversorgung von Frauen in der reproduktiven Lebensphase, ihrer Kinder und ihrer Familien zu leisten. Im vorliegenden Artikel wird dargelegt, welche fach- und bildungswissenschaftlichen Anforderungen sich aus den Kompetenzzielen des neuen Berufsgesetzes ergeben, und aufgezeigt, welche Voraussetzungen geschaffen werden müssen, damit Hebammen in Deutschland gemäß dem gesetzlich definierten Aufgabenspektrum tätig sein können.

          Bildungswissenschaftliche Anstrengungen und versorgungspolitische Maßnahmen einschließlich Begleitforschung sollten Hand in Hand gehen, um Hebammen in die Lage zu versetzen, ihre Kompetenzen zur Förderung physiologischer Schwangerschaften und Geburten und zur Stärkung der frühen Elternschaft gemäß dem Nationalen Gesundheitsziel „Gesundheit rund um die Geburt“ bestmöglich einzubringen. Dabei stellen Maßnahmen zur Gestaltung effektiver interprofessioneller Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Gesundheitsberufen gemäß den jeweiligen Berufsaufgaben und -rollen im ambulanten und im stationären Sektor und an den Schnittstellen einen Kernaspekt dar. Die wissenschaftliche Nachwuchsförderung von Master, über Promotion bis Habilitation muss ausgebaut werden.

          Die Akademisierung des Hebammenberufs eröffnet große Chancen der Professionsentwicklung. Damit Hebammen gemäß ihres breiten beruflichen Aufgabenspektrums tätig sein können, werden bildungswissenschaftlich fundierte Lehrkonzepte sowie geeignete, neu zu entwickelnde Versorgungsstrukturen benötigt. Das birgt das Potenzial, die gesundheitliche Versorgung von Frauen und Familien in der reproduktiven Lebensphase des Elternwerdens in Deutschland nachhaltig zu verbessern.

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          Midwife-led continuity models versus other models of care for childbearing women.

          Midwives are primary providers of care for childbearing women around the world. However, there is a lack of synthesised information to establish whether there are differences in morbidity and mortality, effectiveness and psychosocial outcomes between midwife-led continuity models and other models of care.
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            A three-talk model for shared decision making: multistage consultation process

            Objectives To revise an existing three-talk model for learning how to achieve shared decision making, and to consult with relevant stakeholders to update and obtain wider engagement. Design Multistage consultation process. Setting Key informant group, communities of interest, and survey of clinical specialties. Participants 19 key informants, 153 member responses from multiple communities of interest, and 316 responses to an online survey from medically qualified clinicians from six specialties. Results After extended consultation over three iterations, we revised the three-talk model by making changes to one talk category, adding the need to elicit patient goals, providing a clear set of tasks for each talk category, and adding suggested scripts to illustrate each step. A new three-talk model of shared decision making is proposed, based on “team talk,” “option talk,” and “decision talk,” to depict a process of collaboration and deliberation. Team talk places emphasis on the need to provide support to patients when they are made aware of choices, and to elicit their goals as a means of guiding decision making processes. Option talk refers to the task of comparing alternatives, using risk communication principles. Decision talk refers to the task of arriving at decisions that reflect the informed preferences of patients, guided by the experience and expertise of health professionals. Conclusions The revised three-talk model of shared decision making depicts conversational steps, initiated by providing support when introducing options, followed by strategies to compare and discuss trade-offs, before deliberation based on informed preferences.
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              Pregnancy: An Underutilized Window of Opportunity to Improve Long-term Maternal and Infant Health—An Appeal for Continuous Family Care and Interdisciplinary Communication

              Physiologic adaptations during pregnancy unmask a woman’s predisposition to diseases. Complications are increasingly predicted by first-trimester algorithms, amplify a pre-existing maternal phenotype and accelerate risks for chronic diseases in the offspring up to adulthood (Barker hypothesis). Recent evidence suggests that vice versa, pregnancy diseases also indicate maternal and even grandparent’s risks for chronic diseases (reverse Barker hypothesis). Pub-Med and Embase were reviewed for Mesh terms “fetal programming” and “pregnancy complications combined with maternal disease” until January 2017. Studies linking pregnancy complications to future cardiovascular, metabolic, and thrombotic risks for mother and offspring were reviewed. Women with a history of miscarriage, fetal growth restriction, preeclampsia, preterm delivery, obesity, excessive gestational weight gain, gestational diabetes, subfertility, and thrombophilia more frequently demonstrate with echocardiographic abnormalities, higher fasting insulin, deviating lipids or clotting factors and show defective endothelial function. Thrombophilia hints to thrombotic risks in later life. Pregnancy abnormalities correlate with future cardiovascular and metabolic complications and earlier mortality. Conversely, women with a normal pregnancy have lower rates of subsequent diseases than the general female population creating the term: “Pregnancy as a window for future health.” Although the placenta works as a gatekeeper, many pregnancy complications may lead to sickness and earlier death in later life when the child becomes an adult. The epigenetic mechanisms and the mismatch between pre- and postnatal life have created the term “fetal origin of adult disease.” Up to now, the impact of cardiovascular, metabolic, or thrombotic risk profiles has been investigated separately for mother and child. In this manuscript, we strive to illustrate the consequences for both, fetus and mother within a cohesive perspective and thus try to demonstrate the complex interrelationship of genetics and epigenetics for long-term health of societies and future generations. Maternal–fetal medicine specialists should have a key role in the prevention of non-communicable diseases by implementing a framework for patient consultation and interdisciplinary networks. Health-care providers and policy makers should increasingly invest in a stratified primary prevention and follow-up to reduce the increasing number of manifest cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and to prevent waste of health-care resources.
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                Journal
                GMS J Med Educ
                GMS J Med Educ
                GMS J Med Educ
                GMS Journal for Medical Education
                German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
                2366-5017
                17 June 2024
                2024
                : 41
                : 3
                : Doc32
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, University Medicine Halle, Medical Faculty, Institute of Health and Nursing Science, Halle (Saale), Germany
                [2 ]University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne, Medical Faculty, Institute for Midwifery Science, Cologne, Germany
                [3 ]University Hospital of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
                [4 ]Protestant University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany
                [5 ]University of Augsburg, Medical Faculty, Augsburg, Germany
                [6 ]University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Midwifery Science – Health Services Research and Prevention,Institute for Health Services Research in Dermatology and the Nursing Professions (IVDP), Hamburg, Germany
                [7 ]University of Tübingen, Institute of Health Science, Tübingen, Germany
                Author notes
                *To whom correspondence should be addressed: Sabine Striebich, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, University Medicine Halle, Medical Faculty, Institute of Health and Nursing Science, Magdeburger Str. 8, D-06108 Halle (Saale), Germany, E-mail: sabine.striebich@ 123456medizin.uni-halle.de
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                zma001687 Doc32 urn:nbn:de:0183-zma0016871
                10.3205/zma001687
                11310788
                746dd85a-d81c-4a7f-abc3-8453effb8c9c
                Copyright © 2024 Striebich et al.

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                : 16 December 2023
                : 07 May 2024
                : 07 May 2024
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