Practical Approaches to Safely Increasing Vaginal Birth Rates
Vaginal birth can offer important benefits for patients and the health system when it is safe and appropriate. In partnership with the Perinatal Community of Practice, this webinar will highlight initiatives that have successfully increased vaginal birth rates while maintaining a focus on quality and safety. Participants will gain practical insights and strategies for leading quality improvement efforts in their own settings.
By the end of this webinar, learners will be able to:
- Describe the rationale for safely increasing vaginal birth rates and the importance of using balancing measures.
- Identify successful approaches from initiatives that have increased vaginal birth rates.
- Discuss practical strategies for initiating and sustaining a quality improvement project in a health care setting.
- Panelist: Caroline Crawley MPH
- Panelist: Ellen Giesbrecht MD
- Panelist: Jennifer Jollymore MN RN IBCLC PNC(C)
- Panelist: Susan Luong MD MScHQ FRCSC
- Panelist: Jillian Schulmeister RN
- Panelist: Stephanie Tinson RN
- Moderator: Kathleen Ross MD MSc MCFP
This webinar is funded by the Shared Care Committee and Joint Collaborative Committees—a partnership of Doctors of BC and the BC Government—as part of the Perinatal Community of Practice (Perinatal CoP).
The Division of Continuing Professional Development, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee (CACME) to provide CPD credits for physicians. This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by UBC CPD. You may claim a maximum of 1.5 hours (credits are automatically calculated). This activity meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 1.5 Mainpro+® Certified Activity credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity.