Handbook

This course, designed for postgraduate study, aims to examine the issues involved in delivering a high standard of clinical care to the pregnant woman with a particular emphasis on critical evidence-based analysis of current care systems and standards of care.  The overall impact of pregnancy on a woman's life course, including our evolving understanding of pregnancy as a "stress test" for life and the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHAD), will also be examined.  It is likely to be most relevant to those working primarily in a reproductive health setting-in particular doctors in postgraduate training, primary care physicians and family planning practitioners as well as midwives, nurses, sexual health physicians, counsellors and scientists with a special interest in this field.

the Course will cover the following topics:

• Pregnancy preparation/Pre-pregnancy care
  
• Early pregnancy care
  
• Antenatal screening
  
• The pregnant woman in society
  
• Late pregnancy care
  
• Complicated pregnancy: maternal
• Complicated pregnancy: fetal
• Pregnancy as a stress test for life/Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
  

This Course is delivered entirely online. An online assessment (by Multiple Choice Questionnaire) completed at the end of each module contributes to the overall assessment. The remainder of the assessment will be determined by 1) Case study and critical analysis of care, relevant to the course 2) Online group presentation and peer review of presentations related to the topics covered in the course.