Master of Midwifery

Students will have the opportunity to select an area of interest within the scope of prenatal care to research and examine in-depth. Evidence-informed practices, actual practice styles, care provider attitudes, client perceptions, and mass media discourses will be examined. Students will collect original data using a variety of methods and engage existing scholarly literature to inform recommendations for midwives and other care providers to improve service to families in their chosen communities.

This class focuses on Semi Structured Interviews a research design and analysis techniques. Identify appropriate research question. Construct an annotated bibliography. Conduct a scholarly literature review. Critically appraise research studies. Assess media discourses on the research topic. Perform original qualitative data collection and analysis. Articulate the premises of interview methods Synthesize results of scholarly literature, media discourses, and original data narratives. Examine areas where more research is needed to advance midwifery models of care. Theorize about the disparities and congruencies between evidence-informed practices, popular and scholarly discourses, and actual care practices; and Communicate findings to audiences of significance