Duration: 2 years
Course description:
Midwifery is a health care profession where providers offer care to childbearing women during pregnancy, labor and birth, and the postpartum period. They also care for the newborn through to six weeks of age, as well as assisting the mother with breastfeeding. Midwives may also offer inter-conceptional care including well-woman care.
A practitioner of midwifery is known as a midwife, a term used in reference to both women and men.
Midwives are autonomous practitioners who are specialists in low-risk pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care. They generally strive to help women have healthy pregnancy and natural birth experience. Midwives are trained to recognize and deal with deviations from the norm.
Midwives refer women to general practitioners or obstetricians when a pregnant woman requires care beyond the midwives' area of expertise. In many jurisdictions, these professions work together to provide care to childbearing women. In others, only the midwife is available to provide care. Midwives are trained to handle certain situations that may be described as normal variations or may be considered abnormal, including breech births, twin births and births where the baby is in a posterior position, using non-invasive technology
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Admission requirements:
A. Incoming Freshmen
1. High school card should have an average of 80% and above;
2. Entrance test score must be 40 or above;
3. Level of competency during interview should be 60% and above;
4. Student must undergo and pass the physical examination.
B. Transferees
All transferee's should undergo the same except for the submission of the High school card. In addition, the transferee shall submit a copy of his/her TOR for evaluation purpose.
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