MIDWIFERY BACKGROUND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

 

 Option A: Education and Clinical Experience

If you don’t have very much experience working as a midwife, you will use this option. 

 

What kind of midwifery education do I need?

You must have graduated from a recognized midwifery education program offered by an accredited educational institution (direct-entry or post-nursing)

OR

you must have completed self-directed midwifery education.  If your midwifery education has been self-directed, the content of your program must have been approved by a Canadian midwifery regulator before you started your studies.

 

In all cases, the midwifery program must be:

• A program that includes a minimum of 24 months of full-time midwifery education

OR

• A program with at least 2400 clinical hours and 850 academic hours over a minimum of 18 months of midwifery education

OR

• A post-nursing program that includes a minimum of one academic year of full-time midwifery education.

 

 Your midwifery education must have:

• Included both theoretical and clinical studies, and clearly-defined competencies and outcomes;

• Covered all aspects of care (antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum and newborn care to at least 28 days) from the perspective of the midwife providing care on her own responsibility;

• Used an educational framework that enables students to link theory to practice;

• Included supervised clinical practice that integrates theory into midwifery practice;

• Included clinical placements in a jurisdiction or jurisdictions where midwifery practice is regulated OR in a Canadian province or territory in the two years before midwifery legislation was passed;

• Included the fundamentals of safe evidence-based midwifery care;

and

• Included an evaluation process that allows students to incorporate their learning progressively and verifies that the student has met the defined competencies of the program.

 

AND

What kind of midwifery experience do I need?

You must have some clinical practice experience:

• At least 50 births with at least 30 of these as the primary midwife in the past 5 years

OR

• At least 40 births as the primary midwife in the past 5 years

OR

• 200 births as primary midwife during your career.

Your background should include experience in antepartum, postpartum and newborn care; and proof of having kept up-to-date on evidence-based midwifery standards of care.

All of your clinical experience must have happened in either:

• A jurisdiction or jurisdictions where midwifery is regulated

OR

• A Canadian province or territory in the two years before midwifery became regulated

OR

• A situation in which practice is overseen by a recognized organization acceptable to the Canadian Midwifery Regulators Consortium (CMRC).

Please Note:  Several Canadian provinces and territories are newly-regulated or will be regulated soon.  The MMBP Pilot will make special arrangements for you with the regulator if you have practised in one of these provinces or territories.  You will still need to meet requirements similar to those in Option A, but there may be small changes to meet the needs of the newly-regulated jurisdiction.  If you have gained all or most of your clinical experience in a Canadian jurisdiction that is newly-regulated or about to become regulated, you may be able to use this option.

For a Flow Chart of the MMBP Eligibility and English Language Requirements, click here.

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