If you are interested in a career as a midwife or maternal care worker, there are some training opportunities available at universities and colleges in Canada .

When available, we list midwifery and maternity care training programs and related material:

• Bringing birth back: Learning to be a midwife (Video)
  Ottawa Citizen, November 25, 2010
  
  

• Maternity birthing, human baby simulators for Nunavut nursing students

  Nunavut Arctic College News, October 27, 2010

  
  
• Training and hiring of midwives in the North
  Senator Charlie Watt
  Debates of the Senate, June 9, 2010

• A TV phone-in show about Inuit maternity care:
  "Birth, a joyous community event", May 2009
  
  Play the 2-hour video of "Birth, a joyous community event"

           Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | More details about this TV show

• Community health practitioner program, Alaska (Video)
  May 2009
  
  
• Community lay-midwife program, Greenland (Video)
  May 2010
  
  
• Maternity care and midwifery training, Nunavut (Video)
  Footage courtesy of the Health Council of Canada
  
  
• Inuit midwife apprenticeship program, Nunavik (Video)
  May 2009

• Midwifery Education Program, Nunavut Arctic College

• “Reclaiming Birth, Health, and Community: Midwifery in the Inuit Villages of Nunavik, Canada” 

Authors: Vicki Van Wagner, RM, Brenda Epoo, Julie Nastapoka, and Evelyn Harnery, BA, SM

Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, Vol. 52, No. 4, July/August 2007

• Celebrating Birth: Aboriginal Midwifery in Canada

  Author: National Aboriginal Health Organization

  

   

• Map: Midwifery and Aboriginal Midwifery in Canada
  This map provides locations and contact information of midwifery and Aboriginal midwifery services.
  Author: National Aboriginal Health Organization:
  
  
  

• Inuit Tuttarvingat is pleased to note that our counselling manual, “Ikajurniq, Basic Counselling Skills: Inuit Voices, Modern Methods”, is being used as a resource in the midwifery program at Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit.
  
  
  
• Nunavut Arctic College congratulates graduates of Maternity Care Worker Certificate Program
  
  

• Aboriginal Midwifery Education Program:

  Course and program details are available on the University College of the North's Web site. To view them, click Academic Calendar in left menu, click Program Catalogue in Search Online, type "midwifery" in Find in Description, and then click Submit Search. Background information on the goals of the Aboriginal Midwifery Education Program

Other Midwifery Education Programs in Canada

You can also find out about midwifery as a health career by going to Qaigitsi!, which is a database of universities and colleges that offer health-related programs.