Graduate Level Midwifery Education

Along with other misconceptions regarding nurse-midwifery practice, is the idea the CNMs/CMs are inadequately educated when compared with physicians. Historically, in the medical world and with the medicalization of normal women experiencing normal childbirth, anything short of a traditional medical school education was considered inferior. As previously mentioned, certified nurse-midwifery education has not been designed to confer skills specific to a medical model of care, although there is expected overlap between models for certain aspects of care.