Midwifery Laboratory

What Is the Midwifery Laboratory? / What Is Its Purpose?

Üsküdar University Midwifery Laboratory is an advanced simulation and practical training center designed to transform Midwifery students’ theoretical knowledge of childbirth, women’s health, and newborn care into clinical skills in a pre-hospital setting.

• Main Purpose: The main purpose is to enable students to comprehensively learn the monitoring of pregnancy, labor, and postpartum processes; clinical interventions related to maternal and infant health; and emergency obstetric scenarios in a safe and realistic laboratory environment.
• Academic Contribution: The laboratory develops students’ tactile memory and motor skills, minimizing the adaptation period during their transition to clinical internships and professional practice. It also enables students to internalize evidence-based midwifery approaches, patient rights, and ethical principles through hands-on application.

Devices and Technical Equipment Available in the Laboratory

The laboratory infrastructure consists of industry-standard mannequins and medical equipment capable of simulating the entire process from pregnancy monitoring to childbirth and neonatal resuscitation. The technical equipment available in the laboratory under the Key Features includes:

• Advanced Birth Simulators: Full-body maternal models capable of mechanically or digitally simulating the mechanics of childbirth, fetal passage through the birth canal, normal, breech, and dystocic (difficult) birth scenarios.
• Leopold Mannequins and Palpation Simulators: Models that provide training in identifying the baby’s presentation, position, and fundal height in the mother’s abdomen through manual examination (palpation) during pregnancy.
• Pelvis and Fetus Models: Anatomical model sets that enable students to understand three-dimensionally the relationship between the bony structure and the process of labor, as well as the rotational movements of the fetal head within the pelvis.
• Newborn Care and Resuscitation Mannequins: Infant models used to practice the newborn’s initial examination, cord care, maintenance of airway patency, aspiration, and basic life support procedures after birth.
• Clinical Measurement and Monitoring Equipment: Handheld Doppler devices and fetoscopes used to listen to fetal heart sounds during pregnancy and labor, as well as blood pressure monitors, height and weight measurement tools, and pelvimeters.
• Suture Training Pads: Simulated tissue pads designed to develop techniques for performing episiotomy (birth incision) when required during childbirth and suturing postpartum tears according to anatomical layers.

Research and Application Areas

The practical course curricula and projects conducted within the laboratory cover a broad range from the preconception period through the postpartum period:

• Antenatal Care and Examination: Pregnancy follow-ups, abdominal examination (Leopold maneuvers), monitoring of fetal heart sounds, and development of pregnancy education models.
• Intranatal Management: Monitoring the stages of labor, sterile vaginal examination simulations, medication administration, management of labor, and active support during the birthing process.
• Postnatal Maternal and Newborn Care: Postpartum monitoring, breast care, breastfeeding techniques and counseling, initial newborn care, bathing, dressing, and anthropometric (height, weight, head circumference) measurements.
• Obstetric Emergencies and Interventions: Simulation of rapid and effective intervention algorithms for emergency clinical situations such as shoulder dystocia, postpartum hemorrhage, and episiotomy/tear repair.

Contributions to Students and the Healthcare Sector

The Midwifery Laboratory provides practical training that strengthens students’ clinical decision-making mechanisms and enables them to enter the healthcare sector as fully equipped graduates.

• Safe Learning Environment: Students can practice repeatedly on mannequins until they master the relevant skills in an environment where they can make mistakes without compromising patient safety.
• Employment Potential in the Healthcare Sector: Graduates trained with advanced simulators and medical equipment in the laboratory can begin working directly and adapt rapidly as midwives in public hospitals, university hospitals, private hospitals, birth centers, family health centers (FHCs), and pregnancy schools.

  What Is the Midwifery Laboratory? / What Is Its Purpose?

  Üsküdar University Midwifery Laboratory is an advanced simulation and practical training center designed to transform Midwifery students’ theoretical knowledge of childbirth, women’s health, and newborn care into clinical skills in a pre-hospital setting.

• Main Purpose: The main purpose is to enable students to comprehensively learn the monitoring of pregnancy, labor, and postpartum processes; clinical interventions related to maternal and infant health; and emergency obstetric scenarios in a safe and realistic laboratory environment.
• Academic Contribution: The laboratory develops students’ tactile memory and motor skills, minimizing the adaptation period during their transition to clinical internships and professional practice. It also enables students to internalize evidence-based midwifery approaches, patient rights, and ethical principles through hands-on application.

• Devices and Technical Equipment Available in the Laboratory

  The laboratory infrastructure consists of industry-standard mannequins and medical equipment capable of simulating the entire process from pregnancy monitoring to childbirth and neonatal resuscitation. The technical equipment available in the laboratory under the Key Features includes:

• Advanced Birth Simulators: Full-body maternal models capable of mechanically or digitally simulating the mechanics of childbirth, fetal passage through the birth canal, normal, breech, and dystocic (difficult) birth scenarios.
• Leopold Mannequins and Palpation Simulators: Models that provide training in identifying the baby’s presentation, position, and fundal height in the mother’s abdomen through manual examination (palpation) during pregnancy.
• Pelvis and Fetus Models: Anatomical model sets that enable students to understand three-dimensionally the relationship between the bony structure and the process of labor, as well as the rotational movements of the fetal head within the pelvis.
• Newborn Care and Resuscitation Mannequins: Infant models used to practice the newborn’s initial examination, cord care, maintenance of airway patency, aspiration, and basic life support procedures after birth.
• Clinical Measurement and Monitoring Equipment: Handheld Doppler devices and fetoscopes used to listen to fetal heart sounds during pregnancy and labor, as well as blood pressure monitors, height and weight measurement tools, and pelvimeters.
• Suture Training Pads: Simulated tissue pads designed to develop techniques for performing episiotomy (birth incision) when required during childbirth and suturing postpartum tears according to anatomical layers.

• Research and Application Areas

  The practical course curricula and projects conducted within the laboratory cover a broad range from the preconception period through the postpartum period:

• Antenatal Care and Examination: Pregnancy follow-ups, abdominal examination (Leopold maneuvers), monitoring of fetal heart sounds, and development of pregnancy education models.
• Intranatal Management: Monitoring the stages of labor, sterile vaginal examination simulations, medication administration, management of labor, and active support during the birthing process.
• Postnatal Maternal and Newborn Care: Postpartum monitoring, breast care, breastfeeding techniques and counseling, initial newborn care, bathing, dressing, and anthropometric (height, weight, head circumference) measurements.
• Obstetric Emergencies and Interventions: Simulation of rapid and effective intervention algorithms for emergency clinical situations such as shoulder dystocia, postpartum hemorrhage, and episiotomy/tear repair.

• Contributions to Students and the Healthcare Sector

  The Midwifery Laboratory provides practical training that strengthens students’ clinical decision-making mechanisms and enables them to enter the healthcare sector as fully equipped graduates.

• Safe Learning Environment: Students can practice repeatedly on mannequins until they master the relevant skills in an environment where they can make mistakes without compromising patient safety.
• Employment Potential in the Healthcare Sector: Graduates trained with advanced simulators and medical equipment in the laboratory can begin working directly and adapt rapidly as midwives in public hospitals, university hospitals, private hospitals, birth centers, family health centers (FHCs), and pregnancy schools.