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Medical revalidation as professional regulatory reform: challenging the power of enforceable trust in the United Kingdom (2018)
Journal Article
Spendlove, Z. (2018). Medical revalidation as professional regulatory reform: challenging the power of enforceable trust in the United Kingdom. Social Science and Medicine, 205, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.04.004

For more than two decades, international healthcare crises and ensuing political debates have led to increasing professional governance and regulatory policy reform. Governance and policy reforms, commonly representing a shift from embodied trust in... Read More about Medical revalidation as professional regulatory reform: challenging the power of enforceable trust in the United Kingdom.

Innovation in assessment: building student confidence in preparation for unfamiliar assessment methods (2018)
Journal Article
Spendlove, Z., & Best, R. (2018). Innovation in assessment: building student confidence in preparation for unfamiliar assessment methods. British Journal of Midwifery, 26(3), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2018.26.3.180

Innovative assessment methods in which students are active participants promote deeper learning. A group debate and a webfolio were implemented as methods of assessment in the 2015 undergraduate midwifery curriculum, with the assessment tools being e... Read More about Innovation in assessment: building student confidence in preparation for unfamiliar assessment methods.

The personal and professional importance of post-registration postgraduate education (2018)
Journal Article
Walker, L., & Spendlove, Z. (2018). The personal and professional importance of post-registration postgraduate education. British Journal of Midwifery, 26(2), 120-124. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2018.26.2.120

The nature of both pre-registration and post-registration midwifery education has changed dramatically over the last two decades, being firmly established within academia and the higher education domain. Notwithstanding the changes to midwifery educa... Read More about The personal and professional importance of post-registration postgraduate education.