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Education resources can help midwives, MAs and other stakeholders design and implement educational programmes that meet ICM Standards.

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Guide

Using the Essential Competencies in a Midwifery Curriculum

This resource provides information on how to integrate the ICM Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice (2024) into a midwifery education programme. It also reviews how to design learning activities and assessments for a competency-based curriculum.
Midwife Talita Oseguera reviews information on a laptop during a general check up with Lacee Rodgers who is 32 weeks pregnant at Choices clinic. Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Toolkit/Tool

Essential Competencies Curriculum Mapping Tool

The competency mapping tool enables faculty to align their Midwifery programmes, whether new or existing, with the 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

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.
Guide

Midwifery Education Development Pathway (MPath)

The MPath resources provide midwife educators with practical tools and suggested strategies to strengthen pre-service midwifery education programs.
Guide

Global Standards for Midwifery Education – Companion Guidelines

This document serves as a companion to the ICM Standards for Midwifery Education, providing supplementary information and insights.
A midwife Hotaru Tsuchida right and Yuka Yamamoto a midwifery university student left, teach Yoga lesson to a pregnant patient just before giving birth at Aiiku Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Guide

Global Standards for Midwifery Education – Practical/Clinical Experience Supplementary Guide

This document contains advice to help midwifery educators meet the ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Education that pertain to practical/clinical experience.
A midwife demonstrates Method of Leopold Maneuvers to midwives participants at the workshop organized by Japan Academy of Midwifery in in Tokyo, Japan.
Position Statement

Qualifications and Competencies of Midwifery Educators

ICM asserts midwifery educators must align with ICM Global Standards and WHO Core Competencies. Essential qualifications include midwifery practice, formal teaching preparation, ongoing development, and advocacy.
Definition / Glossary, Guide

Midwifery Education Glossary of Terms

This glossary provides definitions for the terminology used when building a curriculum, based on the standard ICM terminology.
Guide

Post-Nursing Midwifery Programme Guide

This guide is an overview of the key components of a post-nursing midwifery pre-service programme to help guide midwifery teachers and faculty to either develop a new credential or revise pre-existing pre-service programmes.
Guide

Direct-Entry Midwifery Programme Guide 

This programme guide provides midwifery educators with an example of how to structure a direct-entry midwifery programme that meets the ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Education.
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.
Core Document

Global Standards for Midwifery Education

The ICM Standards for Midwifery Education are an essential pillar of ICM’s efforts to strengthen midwifery worldwide by promoting high quality education programmes that prepare midwives who meet the ICM definition of a midwife.