About Our Online Education
With our online learning program, you can become a midwife without the disruption of relocating yourself and your family. Imagine completing a rigorous graduate program from the comfort of your chosen environment. It allows you to study in your own community while staying in touch with classmates and faculty around the nation and around the globe.
Our systems enable students and faculty to interact quickly and easily, fostering learning and developing social connections. Students share in online group discussions both on discussion boards and in real time. Our program uses web-based technologies compatible with MS office. A community-building on-campus orientation provides students with the confidence to begin their studies, connect with students and faculty, and enables students to contribute to create a learning community.
One of the concerns of online education is the physical isolation of teacher from student and student from student. We have 2-3 periodic required on campus intensives where cohorts of students come together with faculty for learning. Monthly real time virtual-meetings allow for dialogue about clinical problems and learning objectives. Optional mastery sessions and occasional online gatherings or speaker series provide additional opportunities to connect with students and faculty. Learning is an active process; therefore, our graduate curriculum emphasizes breadth and depth of reading for meaning, evaluation of evidence base for care, and class discussion for knowledge acquisition in contrast to lecture-based learning. Our faculty are passionate about making excellent midwives. But mostly, it is our diverse and enthusiastic students who fully engage in our learning community that makes this program special.
Email admissions at enroll@jefferson.edu to learn more about our program and allow us to learn more about you and your learning needs.