Figure 1 represents midwifery tutors' knowledge of the legal indications under which CAC is permitted.
Feedback on lectures focused on clarity of aims/objectives, delivery, content, relevance and tutor knowledge.
However, Nestel and Kidd [ 4], reported no benefit to student tutor knowledge acquisition as determined by a communications skills examination performance when results of tutors were compared to non-tutors.
Students were impressed by tutors' knowledge within their area of expertise when being taught by a senior specialist (consultant), however, it was equally important that their tutors had a good general medicine knowledge base.
Gaps in the midwifery tutors knowledge on Comprehensive Abortion Care CACC) have resulted in most midwives in Ghana not knowing the legal indications under which safe abortion care can be provided as well as lacking the skills and competencies for CAC services.
At the time of this study, the authors were unaware of any study conducted to comprehensively explore midwifery tutors' knowledge concerning CAC, nor their ability and willingness to teach topics concerning abortion.
However, there were a few concerns regarding the lack of GP tutors' knowledge in specialty areas, the negative impact that CBE may have on the delivery of health service in education settings and the cost of CBE.
Gaps in the midwifery tutors' knowledge on comprehensive abortion care (CAC) have resulted in most midwives in Ghana not knowing the legal indications under which safe abortion care can be provided, and lacking the skills and competencies for CAC services.
Two of the twelve tutors (one in the control group and one in the intervention group) were not blind to the nature of the study, but a formal comparison showed no evidence of a tutor knowledge × ethnicity × intervention interaction [F 1,334) = 0.049; p = 0.826] – [see Additional File 3].
It is a web based tutoring system which uses knowledge management techniques to convert the tacit knowledge of experienced lecturers and experts into explicit knowledge.
