Essential Competencies | International Confederation of Midwives

12 August 2024

Midwifery in Germany: what you need to know ahead of the Europe Regional Conference

The German Midwives Association shares insights on midwifery education, challenges, and support, highlighting the importance of collaboration ahead of the upcoming ICM Europe Regional Conference in Berlin.

Association, Education, Enabling Environment, Essential Competencies, Leadership, Model of Practice, Europe

22 July 2024

Midwifery in Rwanda: what you need to know ahead of the Africa and Eastern Mediterranean Regional Conference

As the ICM Regional Conference for Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean approaches, it is time to explore and understand the midwifery landscape in this country.

Association, Education, Enabling Environment, Essential Competencies, Leadership, Midwifery Practice, Model of Practice, Africa

23 February 2024

A Milestone for Maternity Care: BB Gårda, Sweden’s First Freestanding Midwifery Unit

Sweden's first freestanding midwifery unit promises to redefine the childbirth experience, offering a unique space for women to embrace the power of giving birth.

Association, Enabling Environment, Essential Competencies, Leadership

5 January 2024

Zambia’s Path to Improved Maternal Services Through Midwifery Services

In a visit to Zambia in October, ICM collaborated with the Zambian Ministry of Health (MoH), the Midwifery Association of Zambia (MAZ), and key stakeholders to ensure the continuation of the initiative to advance midwifery-led models of care, providing effective, efficient, and desirable healthcare services.

Enabling Environment, Essential Competencies, Model of Practice, Africa

Midwife Smrity Biswas is doing Fatema’s pregnancy routine checkup. She does routine examinations in the female ward and attends to newborn babies and mothers. Keraniganj Upazila Health Complex, Bangladesh.

4 January 2024

Professional Midwife-Led Care in India

The midwifery profession, as defined by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), is new in India. India, like many countries is moving towards embedding midwifery into its health system as a way to improve sexual, reproductive, maternal and newborn health outcomes.

Education, Essential Competencies, Midwife-Led Birth Centres, Model of Practice, South-East Asia

Guide

Essential Competencies – Self-Assessment Tool

This interactive table allows you to analyse your knowledge of each of the ICM Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice.

A midwife demonstrates Method of Leopold Maneuvers to midwives participants at the workshop organized by Japan Academy of Midwifery in in Tokyo, Japan.

Guide

Essential Competencies – Assessment Guide (2023)

This guide is to provides direction for midwifery teachers/educators with a means to develop assessments that are reliable, valid and consistent when evaluating the ICM Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice (2019).

5 April 2023

Midwifery Services Framework (MSF) Implementation Pays off in Zambia

ICM was pleased to celebrate alongside Zambian midwives and women this past month after Zambian Minister of Health, Sylvia T. Masebo, outlined a commitment to ensuring women have access to … Continued

Essential Competencies, Model of Practice, Africa

4 October 2022

ICM Continues Implementation of Midwifery Services Framework in Zambia

ICM Continues Implementation of Midwifery Services Framework in Zambia Through the ICM Project Lead based in Zambia, ICM continues to establish new communication lines to the Zambian Ministry of Health … Continued

Enabling Environment, Essential Competencies

1 July 2022

An interview with Karen Guilliland on building midwifery in the Asia-Pacific

“From the moment I joined midwifery, I was in love with it. It never felt like a job.” The amiable Karen Guilliland, previously CEO of New Zealand College of Midwives … Continued

Enabling Environment, Essential Competencies, Model of Practice, Philosophy and Model of Practice

Midwife Talita Oseguera performs a general check up with Lacee Rodgers who is 32 weeks pregnant at Choices clinic. Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

Core Document

Professional Framework for Midwifery (2021)

Every profession needs a structure to support it, strengthen it and guide its development, that includes all the elements required before an occupation can be considered a profession.

6 November 2020

32nd ICM Virtual Triennial Congress – FAQ

In October, the ICM Board made the decision to transfer the 2021 32nd Triennial Congress to a virtual format instead of continuing with plans for a face-to-face Congress in Bali. … Continued

Association, Education, Enabling Environment, Essential Competencies, Leadership, Philosophy and Model of Practice, Regulation