Student Midwife Needs Experience Abroad

[lilhippy007]

Hey Everybody!

I've just started a midwifery degree in the UK and I've found out that we have the opportunity to gain experience abroad during our final year. Well I think this is great as I love my course and I love to travel! However, they haven't really given us any information as to how to go about organizing it!

So...I've emailed just about every birthing centre in the world asking for information but only got a few replies! By my final year I will have had all the relevent experience, training , immunisations and insurance. I just need somewhere to go and some help setting it up!

Basically if anyone knows anything that could be of some help to me , then I would really appreciate it!!

I'm interested in coming to the USA, Canada, Carribbean, Africa, Australia...just about anywhere except the UK!!

I also want to move abroad during the first year after I qualify if anyone has any info on that too? By that time I should have qualified with a UK Degree (BS) in Midwifery...do I have to have anything further to practise anywhere else? I noticed that in the US there seem to be CNM's but not midwives...would I need another qualification to work there or would I need to suppliment what I already had? What about Oz or Canada? My mom was born in Nova Scotia, so I would be quite interested in Canada? But anywhere and any info would be a huge help to me!

Thanx!

Coz

[fergus51]

To move to Canada you need to also have the required coursework in peds, psych and adult medicine. Those are all required to write our nursing exam, same for the US. CNMs are generally Masters prepared. You can get info about registering in canada at http://www.cno.org (for ontario) and http://www.rnabc.ca for BC. Those sites should have links to other provinces' registering bodies.

[fergus51]

PS, I know it's at the other end of the country, but I would encourage you to look at Vancouver. There were quite a few UK trained nurses at BC Women's when I was last there and they seem to take quite a few students if you express interest in working there after graduation. They have both low and high risk units, and I am pretty sure they have already opened a unit for drug using women. BC does recognize midwives (I believe it's a bachelor's level program which is separate from nursing), so you might be able to register and work as a midwife without the adult/psych/peds stuff. I'm sorry I don't have any links for that.

[fergus51]

Oh, I found it: "college of midwives of british columbia"

http://www.cmbc.bc.ca

[lilhippy007]

Thanks for all the info Fergus, I'll definitely check those out!:)