Significance and Educational Effects of Audio-Visual Aids Developed for Teaching Midwifery Technique in Integrated Curriculum

Abstract

With the problems of integrated curriculum in mind, we demonstrated the significance and educational effects of audio-visual aids developed for teaching the techniques of labor assistance in the integrated curriculum. An original DVD and technical instruction texts were developed based on the concept of basic education to use in classroom lectures, practice, and on-the-job training (OJT). Analysis was performed after OJT using students' self-assessment of achievement of labor stage techniques and questionnaires completed in free writing style. During the short-term intensive OJT conducted across two institutions, students mastered the skills step-by-step with the accumulation of assisted cases while studying in undergraduate education. Such original audio-visual teaching aids, deliberately and consistently designed by teachers based on the principles, would be highly significant because education tools created by the user are the best in that site. The study also suggested that teachers' ideas and experience could contribute to active learning activities in students.