Campus-based Midwifery Program

This program begins each September in Bridgton and consists of a 3 1/2 semester academic program with integrated clinical rotations followed by a 1 1/2 year Preceptorship. This program takes approximately 3 years to complete.

Campus-based Midwifery Program Academic Calendar

First Semester (end of August-December 2010)

3 class days per week, 15-week semester Total credits: 16.0

Orientation  (.6 cr)
History & Politics of Midwifery  (1.0 cr)
Anatomy & Physiology for Midwives  (4.0 cr)
Physical Assessment  (1.6 cr)
Group Process (1.0 cr)
Normal Prenatal (3.0 cr)
Normal Labor and Birth  (3.2 cr)
Professional Issues: Informed Choice, Internet Research  (.8 cr)
Skills Practice Days  (.8 cr)

Second Semester (mid January - May 2011)

2 class days per week/17-week semester   Total credits: 15.3

Post Partum  (1.6 cr)
Normal Newborn  (2.4 cr)
Whole Foods Nutrition (.8 cr)
Therapeutic Nutrition and Supplementation (1.2cr)
Breast-feeding Seminar  (.4 cr)
Skills Practice Days (1.2 cr)
Counseling and WMH (1.0 cr)
Professional Issues: Charting (.4 cr)
Prenatal Complications (3.3 cr)
Electives (1.0 cr)
Clinical Rotation I (2.0 cr)

Third Semester (end of August - mid December 2011)

2 class days per week, 15-week semester  Total credits: 16

Botanicals  (1.2 cr)
Art of Traditional Midwifery (1.0 cr)
Professional Issues: Ethics, Research, Cult Comp  (1.6 cr)
Skills Practice Days  (1.2 cr)
Waterbirth  (0.4 cr)
Complications of Labor & Birth  (4.0 cr)
Well Woman  (1.6 cr)
Newborn Complications (1.6 cr)
Electives  (1.0 cr)
Clinical Rotation II  (2.0 cr)
VBAC Seminar (0.4 cr)

Fourth Semester (January - June 2012)

3 class days/wk for 8 weeks, then Preceptorship    Total credits: 18.4

Lab (1.2 cr)
Pharmacology (1.2 cr)
Hospital Birth Seminar (0.4 cr)
Homeopathy (0.8 cr)
Independent Research (3.0 cr)
Skills Practice (.8 cr)
Professional Issues: Business, Prof. Responsibilities (1.6 cr)
Birth Center Seminar (0.4 cr)
Electives (1.0 cr)
Preceptorship (8.0 cr)

Fifth Semester (July-December 2012)   Total credits: 17

Preceptorship  16 cr
Homecoming Workshop I  (1.0 cr)

Sixth Semester (January-June 2013)   Total credits: 17

Preceptorship 16 cr
Homecoming Workshop II

Total credits for graduation:

(minimum): 97.9

Total length of Program: 34 months

(maximum length: 51 months)