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Baystate Midwifery Education Program


The Baystate Midwifery Education Program is a post-baccalaureate graduate-level program leading to a Certificate in Midwifery. The hybrid program is an autonomous five-semester, post-baccalaureate, in-person certificate midwifery education program with the option to obtain a concurrent 100% online master’s degree through the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For those entering the Midwifery Program without a graduate degree, concurrent master’s degree acquisition is mandated.

For students who need a more decompressed course of study, an eight-semester part-time option is also available. The University of Massachusetts Elaine Marieb College of Nursing offers a flexible schedule of the concurrent master’s degree courses during the longer course of the midwifery program.

Admissions decisions are made by the faculty of the Baystate Medical Center Midwifery Education Program first. Once students have been admitted to Bay State to their Certificate Program, they may apply to EMCON via Slate. The Midwifery Program reserves two admissions per year for qualified applicants who graduate or alumni of the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing.

  • Baystate CNM Program (39 credits)
  • Elaine Marieb College of Nursing (12 credits)

Course Requirements

 Fall Year 1Spring Year 1Summer Year 1Fall Year 2Spring Year 2

Master’s

Courses

(UMass/EMCON)

 
  • N704 Health Care Disparities
    (3) credits
  • N604 Intro Stats for Health Research
    (3) credits
  • Three-credit EMCON Graduate-Level Elective
    (3) credits
  • N630 Research Methodology in Nursing
    (3) credits

Baystate

Clinical

Courses

  • Foundations in Ambulatory Midwifery
    (3) credits
  • Primary Care
    (1) credit
  • Advanced Health Assessment
    (3) credits
  • Advanced Ambulatory Midwifery
    (3) credits
  • Intrapartum
    (4) credits
  • Postpartum/Newborn
    (2) credits
  • Intrapartum Complications
    (3) credits
  • Postpartum/ Newborn Complications
    (1) credit
  • Integration
    (1) credit
  • Integration
    (9) credits

Baystate

Didactic

Courses

 

 

  • Pharmacology
    (2) credits
  • Advanced Pathophysiology
    (1) credit
  • Pharmacology II
    (0.5) credits
  • Advanced Pathophysiology II
    (1) credit
  • Professional Issues and Community Health (to be offered jointly with UMass and Baystate Midwifery)
    (2) credits
  • Pharm III
    (0.5)
  • Advanced Physiology/ Pathophysiology III
    (2) credits
  • Interprofessional Education
    (1) credit
 

Total Credits

 Fall Year 1Spring Year 1Summer Year 1Fall Year 2Spring Year 1 
      Total Credits

 

 

BMC Credits

 

 

 

9

 

 

6.5

 

 

6.5

 

 

8

 

 

9

 

39

UMass Credits

 

 333312
Total Credits9 9.59.5111251

Master of Science Student Support

University of Massachusetts Amherst Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
032 Skinner Hall
Amherst, MA 01003-9304
Dorian Pariseau, Program Assistant
dpariseau [at] umass [dot] edu (dpariseau[at]umass[dot]edu) 

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