19 November 2010

 

8:00 - Registration

 

9:00 - Opening Session - Mervi Jokinen (EMA President) and Dolores Sardo (APEO President)

 

9:30 - Margarida Marques, Head of Representation European Commission in Portugal

 

EU Policy on health care

 

10:00  - Jenni Bremner (Director European Healthcare Management Association)

 

10:30 - Coffee break

The voice of midwifery leadership

Chairperson: Mervi Jokinen, EMA

 

11:00  - New Health Advocacy challenges: communicating the value of Midwifery - Paulo Kuteev-Moreira, Portugal

11:30 - Where is the leadership in Midwifery Education? - Susanne Simon, Germany

11:50 - Educating midwives to become leaders  across Europe -– Representants from Associations of Midwives in United Kingdom Greece, and Sweden Associations  

 

12:10  - Discussion

 

12:45 – Lunch

 

Challenges of maintaining competent profession – midwives and educators

Chairperson: Frances Day-Stirk

 

14:00 - Is there a place for Global Standards for midwifery education in Europe? - Ans Luyben, Co-chair ICM Education Standing Committee

14:20 Delivering competence orientated education programme. - Jessica Pehlke Milde, German

14:40 - Regulation of midwifery profession in Europe - Vania Cirese, Federazione Nazionale dei Collegi delle Ostetriche representing the European Midwifery Regulators Network

 

15:00 – Discussion

 

15:30 - Coffee break

Competencies in Prescribing

Chairperson: Vitor Varela

 

16:00- Midwifery Prescribing in Europe – Maria Papadopoulou, Cyprus

 

16:30 -Reflecting on the education and practice of midwifery in Europe

 

Workshop 1 - Education framework for the prescribing competencies and associated regulation –

                    Gloria Seguranyes, Spain  y Ingela Wiklund, Sweden

Workshop 2 - How is Midwifery Education moving on after Bologna? - Joeri Vermeulen, Belgium

                    and Anita Prelec, Slovenia

Workshop 3 - Standards for practical training evaluation - Eva Mantintupa, Finland

                 and Olga Arvanitidou, Greece

 

 

17:30 - Plenary Session: Feedback from workshops  and discussion

 

18:00  - Closing remarks – Mervi Jokinen

 

18:15 Additional session 

 

ALSO - ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT IN OBSTETRIC: an educational program towards certification

 

20:00 -  Social  Dinner