Teaching Practice
Bloom Community Midwives is proud to be a teaching practice. We feel strongly that it is important for us to nurture the growth of midwifery and the individual women who choose this role. We want to ensure that there are midwives for all of our daughters and their daughters and so on.
Midwifery students in this province are trained in the four year Bachelor's degree program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. They begin their practical supervised experience working with women and their babies in their second year of training. As each year passes they have increased skills and experience and therefore, take on a greater role in all aspects of providing midwifery care. Midwifery students are honoured to attend your birth and will have hands on roles helping you in labour and learning the art of catching babies.
The women who are clients of Bloom Community Midwives play such an important role in training these future midwives. We greatly value your feedback about the students helping to care for you. We also know that the students truly appreciate all that you have to teach them. On behalf of past and future midwifery students - thank you very much to all of the generous women and babies who have nurtured student midwives.
We hope that you will join us in supporting these students in their journey to becoming midwives. If you have any questions or concerns about how they will be involved in your care please discuss this with your midwives.
Bloom's current Midwifery Student - Katharina Prass (end of June - August)
My name is Katharina Prass. I am 22 years old and a student in the midwifery education program at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
Currently I am in my 3rd and last year of my midwife education. The education is partitioned into theoretical and practical components. I have worked in multiple hospitals and with a freelance midwife. I have therefore gained insight into obstetrics in various delivery wards, pregnancy and maternity wards.
In 2006 I finished my A-Levels.
I am keen to learn more about Canadian midwifery, including continuity of care, birth place choice and out-of-hospital births.
In my opinion, midwifery care includes many different skills and areas of expertise. We have to accompany, inform and help the mothers, babies and fathers in every situation. The birth, and the entire pregnancy, is natural and at the same time a miracle. I am convinced that the most important factor is to encourage the new parents and family in their self-assurance.
I look forward to the summer (July-August) while I will be working in Vancouver, with eagerness and curiosity.
