Nurse Midwifery Program Accreditation

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Criterion IV

Curriculum

Exhibit E: Curriculum development is a continuing process. Provide evidence from faculty or curriculum committee meeting minutes or other documents that demonstrate curriculum development.

Exhibit F: The midwifery program has established criteria and a process for awarding transfer credit for didactic coursework. Provide access to the criteria given to applicants and students.

Exhibit G: The midwifery program has established criteria and a process for awarding transfer credit for clinical coursework and clinical experience. Provide examples of course challenge mechanisms, transcript assessments, or other procedures used to assess whether a student has met the criteria.

Exhibit H: The midwifery program has established criteria and a process for granting exemption from didactic coursework. Provide access to the criteria given to applicants and students.

Exhibit I: The midwifery program has established criteria and a process for granting exemption from clinical coursework and clinical experience. Provide examples of course challenge mechanisms, transcript assessments, or other procedures used to assess whether a student has met the criteria.

Exhibit J: The curriculum is consistent with the ACNM Core Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice. Include the table in the exhibits with the referenced curriculum. Address each “Hallmark of Midwifery” with examples (objectives or outcomes, seminars, classes, learning activities) that demonstrate how each is integrated throughout the curriculum. For each competency listed under “Components of Midwifery Care”, give examples of its location in the curriculum with course number, specific outcome(s) (course objectives), and page number or other device for locating where each competency can be found. Provide evidence of a process to ensure appropriate inclusion of core competency content.

Exhibit K: The curriculum includes courses in pharmacology/pharmacotherapeutics, physical assessment and physiology/pathophysiology. Provide access to the syllabi for these courses. Include course content information provided to students.

Exhibit L: The curricular content is regularly updated to include current evidence for midwifery practice and is congruent with ACNM Standards for the Practice of Midwifery; ACNM Position Statement on Racism and Racial Bias; ACNM Code of Ethics; ACNM Transgender/Transsexual/Gender Variant Healthcare, and other ACNM documents. Provide access to course materials, e.g., syllabi or URL/s.

Exhibit M: The midwifery program provides content throughout the curriculum about implicit bias and health disparities related to race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, and religion. Provide access to course materials.

Exhibit N: The midwifery program has a plan for interprofessional education (IPE) to prepare students for team-based collaborative practice that includes outcomes of student learning. Provide access to the plan and any supporting materials, e.g. class schedules, pertinent emails or other communications, students’ assignments.

Exhibit P: The didactic and clinical components of the curriculum are implemented by a variety of evidence-based methods to achieve the program objectives/ outcomes and ensure student learning. Provide examples of various teaching methods that support student learning.

Exhibit Q: The midwifery program ensures that graduates have achieved competence in clinical midwifery practice. Provide access to instruments used to assess competence. Provide examples of interventions used to assist students who have had difficulty reaching academic or clinical competence.

Exhibit T: The midwifery program implements policies and procedures for academic integrity and verification of student identity for academic work, including authorship of work and work done through electronic technologies. Provide evidence of the processes.

Exhibit U: Regular communication occurs among and between faculty and students during implementation of the curriculum. Provide examples of regular communications occurring throughout the program.

Exhibit C.1: Provide a copy or draft of the information about the criteria that will be given to potential and enrolled students. Provide a copy or draft of the information about the criteria that will be given to potential and enrolled students.

Exhibit C.2: The proposed midwifery program ensures that students meet the program’s established prerequisite or corequisite criteria prior to or concomitantly with enrolling in, or being exempted from, midwifery clinical coursework and clinical experience. Provide examples of course challenge mechanisms, transcript assessments, or other procedures used to assess whether a student will have met the criteria.

Exhibit D.1: The proposed midwifery program will have established criteria which students must meet prior to (prerequisite) or concomitantly with (corequisite) enrolling, receiving transfer credit for, or being exempted from midwifery didactic coursework. Provide a copy or draft of the information about criteria that will be given to potential and enrolled.

Exhibit D.2: The midwifery program ensures that students meet the program’s established prerequisite or corequisite criteria prior to or concomitantly with enrolling in, or being exempted from, midwifery didactic coursework. Provide examples of course challenge mechanisms, transcript assessments, or other procedures used to assess whether a student will have met the criteria.

Exhibit E.1: Provide a table that shows the location of the Core Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice in the curriculum.

Exhibit E.2: Provide access to midwifery course materials.

Exhibit E.3: Provide examples of various teaching methods.

Exhibit E.4: Provide access to instruments or drafts of instruments to be used to assess competence as described in the PAR.

Exhibit E.4.b: Each student will have access to a set minimum number of clinical experiences. Provide evidence of relationships with clinical sites to demonstrate sufficient access for students.

Exhibit E.5: The program has set and implements policies and procedures to verify student identity for academic work, including that conducted by electronic or distance technologies. Provide access to policy or drafts of policy that provide evidence of the process.

Exhibit G: The curriculum conforms to state or nationally recognized guidelines for the program/s educational level/s: certificate, master’s degree, and/or doctoral degree. Provide a copy or draft copy and identify where this will be available.