Midwife
New YorkActive
- Exam
- Third-party exam
- Education
- Degree
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- None
The practice of the profession of midwifery is defined as the management of normal pregnancies, child birth and postpartum care as well as primary preventive reproductive health care of essentially healthy women, and shall include newborn evaluation, resuscitation and referral for infants.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- Third-party exam required
- Education
- Degree required
- Continuing education
- No continuing education requirement
- Certification
- No mention of certification
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- No criminal record requirements
- Physical requirement
- No physical requirements
Issuing body
- Department
- NYS Education Department
- Board
- State Board for Midwifery
- Address
- 89 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12234
- Phone
- (518) 474-3817
- Agency website
- http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/
- Last updated
- February 14, 2023
Occupations (O*NET)
- Midwife 29-1161.00
- Midwife 29-9021.00
- Midwife 29-9093.00
- Nurse Midwife 29-9099.00
- Midwife 29-9099.01
Source and verification
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