The Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), which is still high and far from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target, encourages midwives to increase promotive and preventive efforts in providing midwifery care and reproductive health. One of the efforts of midwives is to provide midwifery care based on Continuity of Care (CoC). Midwifery care covers the entire life cycle, from preconception, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, newborns, neonates, toddlers, adolescent preschoolers, and childbearing ages to the elderly. This sustainable care is expected to be able to explore the problems that exist in individuals and to overcome these problems by empowering husbands, families and communities. This activity aims to increase the number of better health degrees for women of childbearing age in every phase they go through, physically and psychologically/mentally, in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic. The method was carried out by interviewing groups of women in the preconception period, groups of pregnant women, postpartum mothers, mothers who have babies and toddlers, and women of childbearing age. It involved Independent Practice Midwives in the Cities of Padang, Padang Panjang and Pariaman by providing communication, information, education, and counselling. Each group has increased knowledge of physical and psychological needs in every phase of their life and sufficient involvement of husband or family in pregnancy, postpartum and newborn phases. It is necessary to increase community empowerment in every phase to achieve health status in every cycle of a woman's life.
National development in the educational sector is an effort to develop national interests and improve the quality of Indonesian people. Through education, the younger generation can develop self-potential, self-control, personality, intelligence, noble character, and skills. The method developed in this study was carried out by applying the Case Study Method at the Pre-Professional Pregnancy course. In this way, students are expected to attain better learning outcomes. The study involved the seventh-semester students of the Midwifery Study Program, Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University. Research activities were carried out by observing (observation) students' critical thinking skills and enthusiasm after being asked to find examples of cases in printed and electronic media. These examples, representing phenomena that occur in society, are relevant to the learning materials. The students were asked to discuss these phenomena in groups and present between groups, allowing them to learn the subject matter through three cycles of activities. The data were obtained directly from the running course as primary data and collected through a data collection format containing assessment items on students' abilities and results of observation during the learning process. The data were analyzed descriptively to get an overview of the research subject. The research was conducted in line with the academic calendar set by the academic office of Andalas University. The Case Study Method was put into practice at several meetings for further observations. Our observations of the method application led to the finding that there was an increase in student critical thinking and enthusiasm during the learning process at the Pre-Professional Pregnancy course.
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