Bridging the gaps between rhetoric and reality in midwifery education trough triangulation with alumni from Bangladesh, Somaliland, and Puntland

Overarching factors in the civil society is scarcely researched to explain challenges in providing quality midwifery education. Bangladesh, Somaliland, Puntland, and Sweden show differences and similarities in providing midwifery education.

Here we focus clinical midwifery education because all countries are facing challenges in providing high quality clinical midwifery education.

The purpose is to provide a scientific foundation on the benefits with midwife-led care at selected clinical midwife students’ placement sites in Bangladesh, Somaliland, Puntland, and Sweden as a mean to improve the quality in clinical education.

The action points in the WHO framework for establishing quality midwifery education with scientific quality care outcomes of midwife-led care, will guide the development of research questions for a research application in 2025.

Through triangulation 234 master’s alumni from Dalarna University in an alumni network, meeting on-line and in field studies at midwife students’ clinical placement sites, will investigate where, at what facilites, midwife-led care can be a showcased, or prototyped in Bangladesh, Somaliland and Puntland.

A working committee will meet on-line and at Dalarna University, establishing a relevant research agenda for long term collaboration and a research application to be submitted in 2025.

Leadership and research workshops will be provided and reciprocal learning will improve the quality in clinical midwifery education, also in Sweden.