Online Midwife Programs

The only one I know of is this one: http://www.midwives.org/home.html

Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing

Ive heard its a good one, but no personal experience as to whether it is or not.

Good luck on your search.

There are several. Google the ACNM site, click on Education and locate schools. you can sort by "online only" opion. U of Cincy is one I can think of off the top of my head.

Greetings,

I have a few friends that have come through Frontier and have been told it is quality. They have been training midwives for years and years. Its a distance learning program. You have to come there like 3 times over all but everything else is done in your home town including your preceptor. Its the track I am on soon too.

Peace
Tia

i heard about this from a student who was currently in the program who is doing the distance education and preceptoring with a local midwife. she recommends it. i wouldnt mind trying for the program since hawaii doesnt have a midwifery program.

I work in a hospital with a lot of midwives and most of them have been educated through Frontier. It's a great program, I plan on applying for it very soon. Good luck, maybe I'll see you at orientation

i dont work in l&d but it will make sense to do a midwifery program without the experience?

Interestingly, it is a question that I have heard a couple different really good answers to.

Some MW's have told me that doing the CNM w/o L&D experiance is a short sighted path. That even though my intent to practice as a MW is more natural, home or birth center birthing, I will want to have had that pexerience dealing with high acuity patients so that on the very rare occasion that something begins to go wrong;I will have seen the signs previously and have an idea what to do with it.

Others have said that Midwifery and L&D are so different in philosophy and that if I want to hold on to my belief that women's bodies are created for this work and they function beautifully- instead of mentally preparing for every complication that might occur (which according to them is a by product of working within the medical model system) that doing hospital L&D prior to CNM will actually rob one of this belief system.

I'm torn. I see merit in both approaches. I am grateful that I have had significant experience in out of hospital, non-medical model birth. I am mature enough to know that sometimes, bad things happen, and that doesn't negate good design. I lean toward getting the hospital experiance, for myself, because I hope I can emerge still holding firm to my beliefs AND possess a broader wealth of experience to pull from if the situation calls for it.

Now...just to find that L&D job when I graduate

i agree with both. i work and an intern in l&d and hated the whole medical part of birth. i prefer the more natural process of midwifery which is why i want to persue. i want to work in l&d, but i was unable to find a new grad job. in the mean time i am working in med-surg. i hope im doing the right thing. they say 2 years of med-surg helps you to be a better l&d nurse. i hope its true its hard to find a l&d job anywhere these days.