Campus Program

Campus Program Academic Calendar:

Semester 1 (Fall 2012)

Meets 3 days per week.

Total credits: 17.0

Orientation (.8 cr)
History of Midwifery (1 cr)
Overview of the Human Body (4 cr)
Physical Assessment (1.6 cr)
Counseling Skills (1 cr)
Normal Prenatal (3 cr)
Normal Labor and Birth  (3.2 cr)
Informed Choice (.6 cr)
Skills Practice 1 (.8 cr)
Electives (1 cr)

Semester 2 (Jan - May 2013)

Meets 2 days per week plus one day of clinical experience per week

Total credits: 16

Post Partum  (1.6 cr)

Normal Newborn  (2 cr)

Neonatal Resuscitation (.4cr)

Whole Foods Nutrition (.8 cr)
Therapeutic Nutrition and Supplementation (1.2cr)
Breastfeeding Seminar  (.4 cr)
Skills Practice 2 (1.2 cr)
Women's Mental Health (1 cr)
Charting (.4 cr)
Prenatal Complications (.4 cr)
Electives (1 cr)
Clinical Rotation 1 (2 cr)

Semester 3 (Fall 2013)

Meets 2 class days per week, plus one day of clinical experience per week.

Total credits: 16.2

Botanicals  (1.2 cr)
Art of Traditional Midwifery (1 cr)
Legal, Political, Ethical issues, (.4 cr)
Skills Practice Days 3 (1.4 cr)
Waterbirth  (.4 cr)
Complications of Labor & Birth  (4 cr)
Well Woman Care (1.6 cr)
Newborn Complications (1.6 cr)
Electives  (1 cr)
Clinical Rotation 2 (2 cr)
VBAC Seminar (.4 cr)

Research Methods (.8cr)

Diversity Training (.4cr)

Semester 4 (Jan - June 2014)

3 class days per week for 8 weeks, followed by Preceptorship    Total credits: 18 (16 with summer session)

Labwork (1.2 cr)
Pharmacology (1.2 cr)
Hospital Birth Seminar (.4 cr)
Homeopathy (.8 cr)
Independent Research (3 cr)
Skills Practice 4 (.8 cr)
Business of Midwifery (.6 cr)

Professional Responsibilities (1.6 cr)

Birth Center Seminar (.4 cr)

 
Preceptorship 1 (8 cr), (6 cr with summer session)

Semester 5 (July-Dec 2014)   Total credits: 17 (14 with summer session)

Preceptorship 2 (16 cr), (13 cr with summer session)
Homecoming Workshop 1  (1 cr)

Semester 6 (Jan-June 2015)   Total credits: 17 (14 with summer session)

Preceptorship 3 (16 cr), (13 cr with summer session)

Homecoming Workshop 2 (1cr)

Optional Semester 7 (July-Sept 2015)  Total credits: 8cr

Preceptorship 4 (8cr)

Total Credits for Graduation: 101.2 cr

Total Length of Program: 37 months

Maximum length: 55 months

Elective Courses for the Campus Program:

Fertility Awareness Training, Massage for Labor, Advanced Botanicals, Advanced Suturing, Prenatal Yoga,

Green Birth and Parenting, Childbirth Education Methods, Good Grief, Placenta Medicine, Cesarean Birth, Transgender Health,

Domestic Violence Training, and Book Club.