The Connell School of Nursing (CSON) at Boston College will welcome its first cohort of students into a new master’s in nurse-midwifery program in May—the first of its kind in eastern Massachusetts.

The California Health Care Foundation reports that in 2023, there were 30 practicing midwives per 10,000 births statewide.

The Board of Regents has approved a Master of Midwifery program for the University of Iowa. U-I Associate provost, Amanda Thein, presented the plan to the Board. “The development of the MM program is ...

Those seeking to become nurse-midwives can now study at the University of Iowa. The UI Master of Midwifery program, approved by the state Board of Regents in September of last year, is currently in ...

A rigorous national accreditation process was one of the first educational innovations, established in 1965, and the first site visits for the evaluation of educational programs were conducted in 1968 ...

Nearing the end of her second trimester and wondering if something was "off," Erin Almelien scheduled an extra ultrasound. Then she went into labor. "We were going to just check it," Almelien said. "I ...

For millennia and across cultures, midwives provided care to women in labor and throughout their reproductive years with a universal emphasis on providing compassionate treatment. Today, however, ...