PURPOSE:
In Mongolia, a working group established by the Ministry of Health in 2022 collaborated with a JICA project to develop a newly graduated midwives training program. At the National Center for Maternal and Child Health (NCMCH), hospital administrators, a nursing director, and midwives were involved in the working group's activities. In December 2024, NCMCH began training using Mongolia's first newly graduated midwives training program. This time, we will share our experience in preparing to implement the training program.

DISCUSSION:
It has been a long time since experienced midwives were paired with newly graduated midwives to teach them how to do their jobs. A nationally unified training program for newly graduated midwives was developed, clarifying the techniques and goals that newly graduated midwives should learn and master. Managers and head nurses reflected the training program's content, taking into consideration the training goals and clinical site conditions, from the development stage. We communicated the purpose and content of the training program to relevant people within the hospital, fostered a common understanding that this was a new adjustment and that all involved would work together to improve the training through trial and error, established a training system to implement the training, and held study sessions for instructors on the content of their training.

EVIDENCE WHERE RELEVANT:
1) Approved training programs for newly graduated midwives in 2024 and 2) Booklet for training1-5.

KEY MESSAGE:
Preparations for the training program have resulted in the establishment of many systems, such as a structure to support newly graduated midwives in adapting to the work environment, the development of awareness of building a career as a midwife, and midwife instructors have grown by learning to teach to newly graduated midwives. These lead to improve the quality of midwifery care and raising the value of the midwifery profession. Education - postgraduate (including three-minute presentation competition)