Complete these tasks to determine if you wish to pursue the registration process:
a) Understand Midwifery In Manitoba
Midwifery in Manitoba may be very different from the way that you are used to practising. Familiarize yourself with Manitoba’s practices to find out if Midwifery in Manitoba is right for you:
Practising Midwifery in Manitoba
b) Preparation
Preparation Materials and Tips
The assessment phase covers a broad base of topics regarding prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum and newborn care. In preparing for the midwifery knowledge and clinical exam, we strongly suggest that you ensure the midwifery textbooks you are using as you study are comprehensive and less than five years old. The textbooks you use should contain information that covers the full spectrum of knowledge required of the entry-level midwife as set out in the CMM Core Competencies. Some recommended texts include:
- Three volumes of the Comprehensive Midwifery series Vol. 1: Professional Roles; Vol. 2: Normal Pregnancy, Birth, Postpartum & Newborn Care & Vol. 3: Management of Complications. Information about this three-volume e-textbook and ordering details https://gumroad.com/bcw
- NRP textbook online (Go to the Canadian Paediatric Society website https://bookstore.cps.ca/stock/details/textbook-of-neonatal-resuscitation-7th-edition#sthash.bUH0ndPM.dpuf
- Association of Ontario Midwives Emergency Skills Workshop Manual. https://www.ontariomidwives.ca/shopping-cart
- Fundamentals of Fetal Health Surveillance Self-Learning Online Manual
As you are reviewing your knowledge and skills, you may find it useful to use the internet to locate evidence-based information from a range of reputable sources in Canada on midwifery and obstetrics, such as the
- Canadian Association of Midwives
- Association of Ontario Midwives Clinical Practice Guidelines
- The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
- BC Reproductive Care Program Clinical Practice Guidelines
- CMM Core Competencies, Model and Standards of Practice on the CMM website
- Midwives Association of Manitoba
- UBC–CPD Midwifery courses
- Midwifery Emergency Skills Program (MESP)
- Myles Textbook for Midwives (17th Edition; 2020, Elsevier) or Varney’s Midwifery (6th Edition; 2019, Jones & Bartlett Learning).
- The Cochrane Library database on childbirth and midwifery research
- general Internet searches on Canadian reproductive, early parenting, and midwifery topics.
You will want to become familiar with Canadian birth-related issues and the healthcare system (there are many scholarly articles available online) and to review material about childbirth from the general public’s perspective in order to understand cultural norms, attitudes, and behaviours around childbirth in Canada. Start with issues like debates over appropriate C-section rates; positions in labour; attitudes to and systemic support for breastfeeding, home birth, and water birth; affects of colonization on health care provision to indigenous people; attachment parenting; perineal integration; female sexuality in the postpartum period; neurodevelopment of the newborn and suggested movements for babies; humanizing hospitals; care for preterm babies; understanding obstetric violence; counselling techniques to promote informed choice, including trauma-based counselling, addictions counselling, and grief counselling; exercise in pregnancy; support groups for parents with disabilities; and care for transgender people.