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2007 ACNM Student Report

Filed under: Academia, Education, Issues, Midwifery, News, Politics — The Midwife at 3:29 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Guess today is Catch-up From Chicago day. In addition to the very long post on the ACNM, MANA and CMs which I just posted below, I also wanted to “unofficially” post the 2007 ACNM Student Report, which I helped to draft at the annual meeting this year with approximately 20 other student representatives from around the country. This report is drafted annually by the student reps to summarize and present student concerns to the ACNM as a whole, and is published every year in the Quickening, the ACNM newsletter. As you might surmise from my post below, the issue I was most concerned about was the representation of CMs, which translated into joining the committee that was drafting the paragraph on Professional Issues, i.e. the newly proposed DNP and how this will affect midwifery education. I’m putting this behind a cut, because again, it’s a very long document and I’m not sure how many people are really interested in reading this in its entirety, but I have been wanting to post this up here since the convention for posterity, more than anything else. So, here you go: (Read on …)

AMCB Board Exam Two Days Away

Filed under: Academia, Education, Midwifery — The Midwife at 4:19 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Graduated! What next?

Filed under: Academia, Education, Midwifery — The Midwife at 4:29 pm on Monday, June 18, 2007

Comps Update

Filed under: Academia, Education — The Midwife at 11:35 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Comprehensive exams: pshaw!

Filed under: Academia, Education — The Midwife at 9:23 am on Friday, May 4, 2007

Two week count-down

Filed under: Academia, Clinicals, Education — The Midwife at 4:37 pm on Friday, April 20, 2007

The final push

Filed under: Academia, Clinicals, Education, Midwifery — The Midwife at 8:34 pm on Sunday, March 18, 2007

Premature Rupture of Membranes at Term

Filed under: Academia, Complications, Education, Hospitals, Journal Articles, Labor and Birth, Research — The Midwife at 12:00 pm on Saturday, March 3, 2007

My fears

Filed under: Academia, Education, Midwifery — The Midwife at 10:25 pm on Tuesday, January 9, 2007

First birth

Filed under: Academia, Clinicals, Labor and Birth, Vaginal Birth — The Midwife at 9:21 pm on Thursday, October 12, 2006
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