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Skill group formation project of the “reproduction, pregnancy, child care, LGBT”

Good health and well-beingQuality educationGender equality

 We started “Recurrent Education Program” for working midwives, midwives under a maternity or childcare leave, and the graduate students of the midwifery course, who support the perinatal medical care. In this program, they learn the various latest knowledge of pregnancy, perinatal care, medical and social risks of women, sex education, and life planning and acquire the advanced skills such as an obstetrics ultrasonography technology or the suture technique of the wound of the perineum. The field of study of the program include the mental support to couples with recurrent pregnancy loss, a care to prevent child abuse, the support to pubertal children, and so on.

 In the gathering place, "Repro-Cafe", the skill group which is formed mainly of persons who have completed this “Recurrent Education Program” and the foreign students, functions as a think tank to make proposals to support woman activity, reproductive medicine, child care, and LGBT. From various aspects, we approach problems of "mother and child support", "sex education", and "prevention of intimate partner violence".

 We also cooperate with Okayama prefectural officials and develop various teaching materials for junior high students to teach "age and fertility” and hold a class bringing up lecturers who teach "relationship between age and fertility” from obstetricians, midwives, a community health nurse, and a school nurses. In addition, we established, for the first time in Japan, the reporting system of "pregnant women, mother and child with social problems to be worried from the beginning of the pregnancy" that occurred from the concept of the “Recurrent Education Program”.

Prof. Mikiya Nakatsuka, M.D., Ph.D.
Graduate School of Health Sciences/Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) Center,Okayama University
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