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Background:

Building midwifery educators’ capacity has been identified as an important component to ensure quality midwifery education and a midwifery workforce that can provide quality midwifery and newborn care. With the background of midwifery being recently introduced in colleges/institutions in Bangladesh, the midwifery educators would benefit from a mentorship program. In an attempt to provide recommendations for development of a mentorship program to midwifery faculty this study was conducted.

Objective:

To describe perceived beneficences of and compliance to the content in a mentorship program; pedagogic styles, students learning and nursing and midwifery educators’ opinions about their own working situation as midwifery educators in Bangladesh.

Methods:

The total number of participants were 59 (n= 59). Data were collected through a structured questionnaire with both open and closed response options, analyzed statistically and through content analysis.

Result

: The midwifery faculty finds it beneficial to participate in a mentorship programs because they perceive they can improve their own situation for the best of the country, moving midwifery forward. The most important skill/ability for faculty to teach the midwifery students was critical thinking and an ability to transfer theoretical knowledge into clinical practice, preferably by useing a variety of pedagogic styles. There is complicance among the midwifery faculty to use information technology to impact students’ learning experiences during clinical placement.

Conclusion:

Mentorship stands out to be a beneficial method of improving teaching and assessment of students’ performances particularly in clinical settings. Communication technology could be an option for providing support and mentorship to midwifery faculty. Information technology could be one important part of a mentorship program.

Clinical applicability and suggestions for further research:

The clinical applicability of this thesis is the provision of up-dated evidence-based information on complicance to modern technology to support the implementation of theoretical knowledge into clinical practice. Continuity of a mentorship program requires attention for sustainable outcome.