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Midwifery

at UBC's

Vancouver Campus

The Midwifery Program at UBC has been preparing midwives since 2002 and provides a high-quality, clinically-based educational experience that allows you to enter directly into practice following registration. UBC Midwifery graduates are working as midwives across all settings in British Columbia and across Canada.

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Program information

  • Campus: Vancouver
  • Faculty: Faculty of Medicine
  • Degree: Bachelor of Midwifery
  • Length 4 yrs
  • Co-op No
  • Honours No

The UBC Bachelor Degree in Midwifery provides classroom education and clinical experience to meet the core competencies for midwifery practice published by the Canadian Midwifery Regulators Council and the BC College of Nurses and Midwives.

The degree is available  to Canadian citizens and permanent residents only. UBC Midwifery strives to enrol applicants who match the diversity of childbearing families in British Columbia. Twenty students are admitted annually with two of those seats reserved for applicants from other Canadian provinces.

If you have already trained as a midwife in a different country, you can join the Internationally Educated Midwives Bridging Program (IEMBP).

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