Teaching

Overachiever that I am, I have a second job.  Yes, I am not only a midwife, but I am...drum roll please.......also an instructor for paramedic students!  What fun!  I am just teaching GYN and OB to the students, but that is quite enough.

Day one - GYN lecture.  I was given the materials to teach, along with power presentations for all of the material (GYN and OB).  I plan on totally revamping the GYN portion of the lecture for the future.  The power points are...dry.  Very. Very. Dry.

Day two - normal OB.  I ditched the power points, and used the paramedic book to refer to.  I added my own images and video clips of normal birth.  We also started to discuss some complications of pregnancy.

Day three - abnormal OB and birth scenarios.  More of my own images, some video clips, and patient care scenarios.  Assigning apgars with different pictures and scenarios given.

Day four - hands on scenarios with a sim!  Also some hands on practice with pelvis/baby models, and even some hands on with a real pregnant belly.

That was it...it was a ton of things to try to cover in just 3 days of lecture, plus one morning of sims and practicing hands on.  Fortunately, the students do get more hands on practicing with sims throughout their didactic program.