Research Output
The Role of a Smartphone App for Providing Feedback on Midwifery Training
  Background: Student midwives currently provide feedback at the end of a placement. Smartphone technology allows student midwives to provide specific daily feedback on their placement and allows mentors to provide daily feedback on the student’s performance.Methods: Surveys of students and mentors were undertaken to assess current perceptions of feedback atSheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Results: 55 student midwives and 61 mentors completed the surveys. 56% of students only provided formal feedback on the mentoring they received annually. 52% of mentors disagreed that they had enough opportunities to provide feedback on the performance of their mentees. 85% said that they never received feedback on their performance as a mentor.
Conclusions: Using a Smartphone App to provide daily feedback on mentoring could allow students to provide a daily assessment of their training. Mentors could use the App to provide daily feedback on the student’s performance. This would help overcome the issues highlighted by the survey.

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    25 August 2016

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Valley International

  • DOI:

    10.18535/ijmsci/v3i8.08

  • Cross Ref:

    10.18535/ijmsci/v3i8.08

  • Funders:

    Historic Funder (pre-Worktribe)

Citation

Gray, T. G., French, L., Haddrill, R., & Farrell, T. (2016). The Role of a Smartphone App for Providing Feedback on Midwifery Training. International Journal Of Medical Science And Clinical Invention, 3(8), 2071-2078. https://doi.org/10.18535/ijmsci/v3i8.08

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Keywords

Smartphone, App, Feedback, Training, Mentoring

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