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* Title: Perineal Trauma - Prevention Education, Evaluation Repair & Scanning Blended Learning Course (PEERS+).
PEERS+ is a blended learning course covering the topic of maternal perineal and pelvic floor trauma at the time of childbirth. It is suitable for different levels of students studying aspects related to women’s health. These include students studying medicine, midwifery, nursing and physiotherapy both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
The course utilises blended learning methodology. An online component will be made available to students if they want to refresh their memories about any aspect of the course content. Through student mobility and the collaboration of 4 partner universities, the workshop will provide an effective platform for networking between students from different years, courses and universities. The workshop is a three-day face-to-face course with theoretical and practical components in the form of hands-on training using simulators and animal models. Students will be able to reconstruct the pelvic floor anatomy using the purpose developed Pelvic+ and undertake surgical repairs on animal models to train candidates how to repair different degrees of perineal trauma included Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries.
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This project will create a standardised structured platform for training health professionals on evidence based management of childbirth related perineal trauma and its consequences. The workshop will be equally shared between partner organisations ensuring active partnership. PEERS+ creates an opportunity for staff & student virtual and physical mobility sharing teaching and learning experiences to improve women’s health. The course follows the adult learning ethos utilizing state of the art, efficient competency-based pedagogy that encourages critical thinking. The project revolves around the concept of “student-centered learning” that is based on 4 key principles: learning is personalized, competency-based, happens anytime/anywhere, student take ownership.
Skills acquisition will be conducted starting from relatively simple cognitive and mechanical skills until a real simulated clinical setting.