Mercy In Action Midwifery School
Academic Component:
Three Month Intensive Academic School. Daily classes and group study in Boise, Idaho. This will be a full-time, 6 days a week school to meet your learning objectives in a short time. Elements of guided research, lecture, demonstrations, reading, writing, and student teaching will all contribute to an indepth midwifery education in a short time-frame.
Start Dates in 2010:
February 22 - May 14, 2010
or
August 23 - Nov 19, 2010
Cost: $1,000 per month, includes food and lodging
Option One: Become a Certified Professional Midwife plus earn a College Degree
If you would like your work to result in an accredited college degree (Associate of Science in Midwifery) we will act as your academic preceptors to meet the requirements of the National College of Midwifery. If you go through the National College of Midwifery, they charge a one-time $5,000 administration fee, but you don't need to pay outside examiners for your Skills Check-off, all of your requirements are clearly laid out for you, you have administrative support through-out, and at the end you qualify for a college degree as well as the Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) designation. Depending on any prior expereince, you may need to do some assignments and reading through distance-learning after this three month intensive, under our continued supervision and guidance. We recommend this option.
Option two: Become a Certified Professional Midwife
If you decide instead to go through the NARM Portfolio Evaluation Process (PEP), you will have to do much more paperwork on your own and pay extra to do your Skills check off with a Qualified Evaluator. This process takes longer than the accredited school option, and would require you to put together your education from many sources, much like an apprenticeship, to result in a CPM designation. We would be one of the sources, and help you as we could, but this option requires you to be a self-starter and highly motivated administrator of your own educational program.
Option three: Become a birth attendant, birth assistant, or highly skilled doula
If you desire to become a birth attendant or birth assistant without any titles or registration, and your state or province allows for that, you could take this portion of the course without going on to become a CPM or earning a college degree for your work. This may be a legitamate option for your circumstances.
Clinical Component:
Three Month Intensive Clinical Internship in birth center with high volume births in the Philippines. This is your time to learn hands-on midwifery, assist and catch babies at birth center births and home births, observe hospital births, and do home visits for postpartum and newborn care. You will be involved in caring for pregnant women and babies, as well as well-woman and sick-woman exams, diagnosis and treatment.
Cost: $2,000 per month, includes lodging
Dates: Of your choosing. If you are applying with Mercy In Action for the Philippines internship, submit three choices of dates with your application, and we help you arrange the dates that suit you best.
Option: Arrange your own clinical preceptorship at location of your choice
CPM Component:
Pass NARM and become a Certified Professional Midwife
For this component, we offer the NARM Study Retreat, held the week before each testing date. This is six days of focused review the week before the NARM Exam, with no distractions, taught and guided by Vicki Penwell, a midwife with experience preparing over 120 students to pass NARM and become CPMs using this method of intense retreat review and practice the week before the exam. While there are no guarantees, a very high percentage of students who studied with Vicki have passed NARM the first time.
Click here for the NARM STUDY RETREAT
Cost: $850 for 6 days, includes lodging
Dates: The week before each NARM Exam in Feb, August and October
To Register for the Midwifery School-Send in your application:
You may now apply by email. From this application page, click, copy and paste these questions into the body of an email, fill it out and email it in to: mercymissions@gmail.com
Application Form Questions:
Start Date you are applying for:
Name:
Address:
City, State, Zip:
Email:
Phone:
Age:
Birth date:
Sex:
Single or married:
Spouses name if married:
Children, names and ages:
Will spouse and children, if any, coming with you? What will be your housing arrangement? (Room and board is only available for single students)
Current occupation:
Height:
Weight:
Blood type:
Any current health problems?
On any medications now?
Is there anything you will not eat?
How would you rate your health and stamina?
Are you current on immunizations and boosters?
Emergency contact, name and phone:
Church name:
Denomination:
Health care currently involved in:
Education:
How did you hear about Mercy In Action?
Who do you know who has attended in the past?
What expectations do you have for this course?
Will you be doing your clinical internship with Mercy In Acton in the Philippines?
If not, where do you intend to do your clinical internship?
Are you planning to work toward a Certified Professional Midwife designation with NARM?
Are you planning to register with the National College of Midwifery to earn a Associate of Science Degree in Midwifery?
What do you hope to do after your training time with us?
Write a short biography, include your interest in health care, your relationship with God and your relationship with your family, your goals, any addictions or areas of character you are working on, and anything else you would like to tell us about your hopes, fears, special circumstances, future dreams, etc.
Have someone who knows you well send a letter of reference by email.
For Book list, see Resources on this website: NARM Reference Books
After acceptance, to hold your spot in the school, pay a non-refundable deposit of $500 by one month before classes start. The balance will be due before the first day of school. The easiest way to pay is through this website: go to DONATE OR REGISTER.