Lessons from COVID-19 pandemic: teaching midwifery at the national level in Sierra Leone in the pandemic and post pandemic

ABSTRACT

The contents of this article are drawn from personal experiences and National response by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation during the COVID-19 pandemic in the midst of teaching in a midwifery training school. Teaching Midwifery in COVID-19 Pandemic and Post Pandemic periods impacted on the way student midwives were taught. Contextual issues are highlighted during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Midwifery Education profession. But more speciacally, the impact of Covid-19 on midwifery education basically around the way students were taught, classroom spacing rearrangement and institutionalizing national protocols and guidelines on prevention of COVID-19 spread among staff and students.