劳伦森大学

Gain the knowledge and skills needed to guide pregnant clients when making decisions about their care.

Small class sizes, diverse range of student experiences, and a strong sense of student community contribute to student success.

Get hands-on experience through placements with a midwife and other health professionals, organizations and institutions. Stay connected with internet classrooms in small tutorial groups while in placements to continue your theoretical learning.

Solidify knowledge and skills through a practical learning environment and during the on-site two, one-week intensive training sessions the third year of study. Opportunity to hear from guest-speakers and certification reunite face to face . Third year begins and ends on campus where students build on clinical skills and knowledge.

Graduates are eligible for registration as a midwife with the College of Midwives of Ontario, in addition to other colleges across Canada, upon successful completion of the Canadian Midwifery Registration exam.

After graduation, gain experience and a salary during your “new registrant’s year” with a full caseload of clients and the support and guidance of professionals.

Key Features

• Upon successful completion of the program, register with the College of Midwives of Ontario.
• Benefit from small class sizes, a sense of community, work placements, and a high quality clinical environment.
• Become a professional in the health care field and be an advocate for clients active participation in their pre and post natal care.

This is a four-year program that leads to an Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences (B.H.Sc.) in Midwifery. Thirty students are admitted each year. Classes in the first year and a half are in the language of admission. However, students in both streams are combined for some learning experiences in both first and second year. The course “Midwifery Skills” in the second year offers many opportunities for anglophone and francophone students to learn from one another while they are learning the hands-on skills they need for their first placement. During that course, students are often placed in small groups to work with faculty or local midwives or senior students to develop novice competency in skills such as venipuncture, medication administration, baby catching, well woman assessment and pelvic examination, catheterization, suturing and responding to emergencies.

A virtual clinic activity is used in the first three years to help prepare students for working in a group practice and for the management of increasingly complex situations. While in the first year, each student is assigned to follow a single case study, in the second year, students are organized into small group practices with a series of client situations to work through. In the third year, students participate in an online case study project that is a little like the ‘choose your own adventure’ games. Students can safely make decisions and follow-through the outcomes of their decisions.

Midwifery can be a good choice for any student, but there are of course some aspects of the profession that may be more attractive to some potential students than others:

• confidence to make hard decisions;
• flexibility to share decision making with clients;
• enjoy an unpredictable lifestyle – babies come when they come;
• not a procrastinator – inevitably if you put something off to the last second, someone will go into labour!
• being self-reflective – what went well today and what did not and what can I do to improve my practice?
• able to find a balance between work and other life priorities

Career Opportunities

• Midwife