UP Joins National Committee Group To Update Cambodian Midwifery Curriculum

The National Curriculum of the Associate Degree in Midwifery (ADM) was created in 2009. However the curriculum has slowly fallen behind current practices in midwifery in hospitals, so to provide up-to-date training for future midwives, the Ministry of Health (MoH) formed a committee group with midwifery professionals representing all the Regional Training Centres (RTCs) of Cambodia, our national hospitals, and several private universities in Phnom Penh. The National Curriculum of the Associate Degree in Midwifery (ADM) was created in 2009. However the curriculum has slowly fallen behind current practices in midwifery in hospitals, so to provide up-to-date training for future midwives, the Ministry of Health (MoH) formed a committee group with midwifery professionals representing all the Regional Training Centres (RTCs) of Cambodia, our national hospitals, and several private universities in Phnom Penh.

We are happy to announce that UP is represented on the committee, through Ms. Cheng Chan Mara as our representative. Currently, Chan Mara and her committee colleagues are creating a new competency based curriculum for the Associate Degree in Midwifery programme and this will use the Cambodia Midwifery Competency and the International Curriculum of Midwifery Programmes to form a new National Curriculum, based on the current needs and requirements of Cambodia.