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- June's Midwifery and Health Information - Offers information and links including midwifery, birth centers, child birth education, home and water births and legislation.
- World Health Organization: Midwifery - Information resources and WHO program information on midwifery and its role in the provision of essential obstetric care worldwide.
- School of Nursing and Midwifery - Offers an eighty week course for those who are currently on Part 1 or 12 of the UK Professional Register for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors to study for a Bachelor of Midwifery (Hons) qualification. Includes course information, entry requirements and selection procedure. Located in Bangor, Wales.
- Academic Division of Midwifery - Information about under-/postgraduate, pre/post registration, and continuing development courses in midwifery available at the University of Nottingham.
- Midwifery Care of Peel and Halton Hills - Ontario, Canada. Information on the practice of midwifery, with links to professional organizations and to education resources.
- NaturalHealers.com - Midwifery Schools Q and A - Provides information for those interested in midwifery. Also includes a directory of schools covering the US.
- McMaster University Midwifery Education Programme - Program overview, requirements and course offerings leading to a B.H.Sc. in Midwifery. Ontario, Canada.
- MidwifeInfo.com - A Short History of Midwifery - Describes the profession from ancient times onwards. Also provides information on the beginnings in America, the increasing medicalization of childbirth, modern nurse-midwifery and current trends. Further reading also offered.
- Midwifery Information - The Royal College of Midwives library staff share information about web-based resources related to midwifery.
- Postgraduate and Post-registration Courses - Academic Division of Midwifery - Located at the University of Nottingham, UK. Offers the already qualified postgraduate and post-registration courses aimed at furthering professional development. Includes course aims, modules and admission requirements as well as links to BSc, MSc and MPhil/PhD options.
Wikipedia Articles
- Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery - The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery is a school within King's College London. It is primarily concerned with the education of people to become nurses and midwives.
- Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing - Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing is a private non-profit graduate school located in Hyden, Kentucky. The Leslie County school was started by the Frontier Nursing Service in 1939.
- Midwifery - Midwifery is the term traditionally used to describe the art of assisting a woman through childbirth. In the modern context, this term is used to describe the activities of those health care providers who are experts in women's health care including giving prenatal care to expecting mothers.
- Jane Sharp - Jane Sharp was a 17th century English midwife. In 1671 she published The Midwives Book: or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered, becoming the first English woman to publish a book on midwifery.
- Betty Kershaw - Dame Betty Kershaw, DBE, FRCN, CStJ is Professor of Nursing and Dean at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield. She was previously Head of the Manchester College of Midwifery and Nursing Director of Nursing Education at Stockport, Tameside and Glossop College of Nursing.