Goals

MCU Program Goals

MCU Institutional Goals

The MCU distance-education curriculum and community-based clinical placement are firmly grounded in the unique and profound power of the Midwives Model of Care™ (MMoC). We believe the MMOC is a primary pathway for improving outcomes and eliminating inequities for childbearing persons and babies during the childbearing year. Midwives College of Utah fulfills its mission by meeting the following institutional goals:

• offering a bachelor’s degree to prepare individuals for career opportunities to practice as direct-entry midwives providing primary care to childbearing persons and babies;

• offering a master’s degree to prepare individuals to be midwifery leaders in the birthing care landscape;

• delivering curriculum core competencies and student support services that supply opportunities to acquire knowledge, skills, and philosophical approaches. This education is organized within five broad interrelated categories:

  • Specialized Knowledge

  • Broad and Integrative Knowledge

  • Intellectual Skills

  • Applied and Collaborative Learning

  • Civic and Global Learning;

• nurturing a culture of collaboration as we continually strive to advance equity, access, and social justice at MCU and in the midwifery profession; and

• creating opportunities for students to effect global social change through the development and application of leadership skills.

Bachelor’s Degree Program Goals

Preamble: The MCU undergraduate program offers a Bachelor of Science in Midwifery (BSM) degree. The BSM program provides a general education and prepares graduates to become a knowledgeable, skilled and independent Certified Professional Midwife who specializes in community birth settings.  BSM graduates will have knowledge of and proficiency in MEAC’s Curriculum Checklist of Essential Competencies, which includes the internationally recognized core competencies and guiding principles set forth by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) in addition to requirements for national certification of the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) and the core competencies of Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA).  MEAC’s accreditation criteria for midwifery education programs reflect the unique components and philosophy of the Midwives Model of Care.

A midwife of technical expertise

Goal #1: The undergraduate program aims to prepare graduates to practice at the full scope of the Certified Professional Midwife credential through the demonstration of broad, integrative, and specialized knowledge.

A midwife of professional excellence

Goal #2:  The undergraduate program aims to advance equity and access in midwifery, as well as to prepare graduates to serve in diverse communities in culturally safe, ethical, and collaborative ways.

A midwife of personal greatness

Goal #3:  The undergraduate program aims to prepare graduates for reflective practice and a perpetual commitment to advance quality and professional direct-entry midwifery.

MCU institutional goals. Midwives College of Utah. (2021, April 25). Retrieved August 3, 2021, from    https://www.midwifery.edu/mcu-institutional-goals/. 

Personal, Academic & Professional Goals

1. Graduate in 2.5 yrs - update (Aug '23): Completed studies Aug '23

2. Maintain a 3.5 GPA - update (Aug '23): GPA 3.69 ending Summer '23

3. Pass NARM on first attempt - update (Oct '23): Completed Oct '23

4. Become a Doula - Completed June '21

5. Start a Mobile Sonography business - Completed June '21 with Teleradiology Services: IG: @radicle_births or email rooted.in.births@gmail.com for services

6. Maintain work/life/self-care balance- continually working towards balance

7. Integrate into Canadian birth community - update (Nov '23): 9-month bridge program with IMPP @ Ryerson University, 100 primary births: 70 can be completed while in school and 30 post-graduate; certification in foreign country; Connection with local midwives, try to become second attendant for births in Canada; will apply for an exception as the terms are changing in Canada and I don't have an update on the program and it is currently closed as of 2021. Currently at 55/100 primary births. (program cancelled)

New program through College of Midwives of Ontario - Orientation and Assessment Pilot Program for Internationally Educated Midwives, this will begin Fall 2022 and the following must be completed: certification of midwifery in foreign country, be able to work in Canada (Permanent Resident, Protected status, Citizen) if within 9 months of a decision you may still apply, complete 100 births (60 can be completed while in school and 40 postgraduate) provided by supervisors, 3 online modules and assessments done at your own pace can be completed in a few weeks to 9 months, each assessment must be passed with 70% and if not passed on first attempt a second will be allowed and taken within one year, attend 10 day long in-person intensives in Toronto, total program costs approx. $5800CAD and can be completed in 4-18 months. Next cohort may start late spring/early summer. There are no private practice options but the possibility of starting a solo practice by petitioning the Ministry of Health.

8. Stay politically active in US affairs - update (Aug '23): Checking with neighboring (MI & NY) states for midwifery laws, doula laws, birth center approvals, precepting states (MI, RI, TX, OH) legalization of midwives in Ohio

9. Become NRP certified for the US and Canada, be versatile! - update (Nov '23): Completed Nov '23 (USA/Canada renewed)

10. Added goal: Attended 150 births by December 2023 - updated (Nov '23) - 147 

11. Added goal: Become licensed in MI (updated Nov' 23) - Completed Nov '23

12. Added goal: look into starting a mobile midwifery business (Nov '23) - completed Radicle Midwifery

13. Added goal: Search for more opportunities for primary births (updated Nov '23) - attending births at birth centers in NH May - June and Aug - Sept '23; WA state Sept - Nov '23

14. Added goal: Re-certify CPR by EOM March '23 - Completed March '23

15. Added goal: Re-certify NRP by EOM November '23 - Completed Nov '23

16. Added goal: Gain more observed births - Completed Jan '23

17. Added goal: Attend births in Canada Summer 2023 - Completed Aug '23

18. Added goal: Start a Student Union - Completed March '23

19. Pass Phase 3 Assessments - Completed Aug '23