Training

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:

• 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 2009Play 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
• Bachelor of Midwifery: Course and program details are available on the University College of the North’s Web site. Program Information

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Other Midwifery Education Programs in Canada:

• Midwifery Education Program - Laurentian University
• Midwifery Education Program – McMaster University
• Midwifery Education Program – Ryerson University
• Midwifery Baccalaureat en pratique sage-femme a
  l’Université du Québec a Trois-Rivières
• Midwifery Program – University of British Columbia

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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.

 

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