Ariel Bernstein is a licensed midwife who has been serving rural populations for over 10 years. She is a midwifery preceptor and educator on sabbatical from her practice in Maine while pursuing her MPH at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Ariel is an executive board member of the Maine Association of Professional Midwives where she is working on legislation and expanding hearing screening access. She holds a BA in Linguistics from the University of Haifa, Israel. In addition to her midwifery work, she is also a certified lactation educator and counselor. Ariel is passionate about improving maternity care outcomes in low-resourced and rural areas.
We will be working with a group of 40 midwives to improve emergency birth skills through hands-on skills drill practice with obstetric models and decision tree guides. By providing the tools to learn and practice skills simulation training our goal is that the midwives will be able to continue to practice and improve their skills as well as train other cohorts of midwives in the training model. The skills guide that we are introducing will offer a streamlined approach to common birth emergency response that we hope will improve outcomes over time.