MOMS Distance Learning Program


MOMS Distance Learning Program (DLP) harmonizes with our mission. We provide midwifery education to women outside the United States who have little or no other access to education. These students work with local preceptors for their clinical experience, and follow local regulations.

New enrollments are open only to people outside the United States. Even so, we are using the standards set by the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) to guide the breadth and depth of the study. It is rigorous, and graduates are ready to engage with the process for becoming a Certified Professional Midwife with the North American Registry of Midwives.

The program has two main sections, academics and clinical experience, which are divided into subsections:

Academics
  1. Modules (18) consisting of 3-10 units each, plus a final examination
  2. Collateral studies (4) modules:
  1. Doula Training (or equivalent)
  2. La Leche League Series (or equivalent)
  3. Preparing and Teaching Childbirth Education or Parenting Classes
  4. Community Service Activities or Projects (100 hours)
Clinical Experience
  1. Skills workshops for basic and advanced skills
  2. Clinical work (aligned with the requirements set by NARM)

MOMS provides course materials for the modules, and references for the collateral studies. MOMS hosts Skills Workshops periodically, or you can arrange to attend sessions at conferences or other local sites. You also arrange for collateral studies and clinical experience locally, while MOMS approves the preceptors and sites, and monitors and advises you.

When you pay for a module, the MOMS emails you the course work. You complete the material, one unit at a time, in sequence. You complete the unit's assignments, then take the quiz monitored by a proctor who has been approved by MOMS.

You have 48 months to complete the modules (item I above), the first 3 collateral studies (items IIa through IIc above), and the skills workshops (Item 1 above). To do this, you must average about 2 units per month, plus the skills workshops, and collateral studies. Each unit includes a significant amount of reading, reflection or analysis papers, the creation of protocols and/or handouts, and quizzes. You will also study about 10 standard, professional-level, comprehensive texts, plus specialty texts. A comprehensive final examination is the capstone activity. After you compete the academics, you have 36 months to complete the community service and the clinical work.

You must...
  • have reliable Internet access, an email account, and a word processing program - and know how to use them.
  • be able to get the required textbooks.
  • read and write English at a high-school level or above.
  • work at a rigorous pace for the duration of the program.

For more information, please email us.