[jamie009]

I am planning on trying to get into midwifery school in the fall of 2008. I live in Kansas and there are very few CNM or CM's here. In fact there is one nurse midwife in my area. I am considering the Frontier School of Midwifery or the University of Kansas program. I would really like to do the Frontier program since I have heard excellent things about it, but I am concerned about being able to find a CNM to be my preceptor.I am willing to drive if I have to but I don't want to be traveling all the time. Does anyone live here in Kansas or attended frontier and have any suggestions. If you have attended frontier how many hours per week are you usually in clinical? Do you feel like you were able to get enough experience with the opportunities that you had during school?

[Selke]

Check forum threads here about this issue of finding a preceptor. Also, contact Frontier, as they should be able to share with you contact information of students and alumni living in Kansas and you could ask them what they do for preceptors. You also need to be proactive and get on the acnm.org website to find midwives in Kansas, look for IHS (ihs.gov) facilities in the Kansas area (there are several in Oklahoma that Frontier students go to), do a google search for Kansas nurse-midwives and check your yellow pages for names/contact information for CNMs and just start cold calling them. There is no two ways about it, you need to do legwork. Not many SNMs, let alone CNMs, read allnurses.com to see your question.

[LLLovely]

I don't know what part of Kansas you are in, but there is a CNM just west of the KC metro who is a Frontier/CWRU grad who wants to be a preceptor for midwife students.

Send me a PM and I will get you in touch with her.