Midwifery students may be involved in your care. If your midwife has a student working with them, they will ask your permission to have the student present for your visits and your birth.

The students with placements at our practice are from the Midwifery Education Program (MEP) in Ontario. The MEP is a 4-year bachelor’s degree in health sciences. The student is assigned to work with preceptors on either the blue or green team.  Students play an active role in client care.  They work alongside their preceptors in clinic, at home visits, and at births. They also answer pages and consult with their mentors about their care management plans.

There are many benefits of having a student involved in your care including:

• An extra pair of hands to provide labour support, or offer your partner a break at your birth.
• Continuity of care! Although you will have the opportunity to get to know all the midwives on your team, students will be in clinic as much they can for learning opportunities. Clients often develop a special relationship with their students.
• Midwifery students are learning the most up-to-date information, and are eager to research the most current evidence to answer any questions or concerns you may have.
• Energy and enthusiasm! Students are ready to work hard, passionate about midwifery, eager to go the extra mile, and bring fresh perspective.
• Your feedback helps students learn and become skilled, knowledgeable, and compassionate midwives.
• By having a midwifery student, you help ensure other birthing parents will have to have the option for midwifery care in the future.

A midwife teacher will always be present and nearby when you are with a student. Midwifery students are always supervised according to their skill level. It’s always your choice if you would like a student involved in your care. We always suggest you try meeting the student and see how you feel. We think students are great, and we think you will too!

Normal Childbearing (NC) Students

Students in their NC placement are with the practice for 17 weeks. This placement focuses on the development of midwifery skills and providing care in normal and variation of normal situations. It is a combination hands-on learning and distance education. This includes doing pre- and postnatal care, taking phone calls from clients, monitoring labours, catching babies and doing newborn exams. All of the care that the student provides will be under careful supervision.

This is their first placement in the program, and they are clinical beginners. During the first 2.5 years of the MEP, students complete a pre-clinical curriculum that includes science, social sciences and basic midwifery philosophy/skills. They’ve also had the opportunity to observe midwifery clinic, attend 1+ births in an observer role, and practice in simulated situations with standardized patients and on each other to ensure they are ready to be involved in client care.

Senior students are with the practice for a calendar year.

Current Student Biographies

There are no students at the practice at this time.