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The Essential Competencies are a minimum set of knowledge, skills and professional behaviours for a midwife.

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Core Document

Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice

The essential competences for the practice of midwifery describe the minimum set of knowledge, skills and professional behaviours required by an individual to use the title of midwife as defined by the ICM.
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).
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.