Midwife
- Exam
- Not reported
- Education
- Not reported
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- Not reported
"Midwife" means any person who provides primary maternity care by affirmative act or conduct prior to, during, and subsequent to childbirth, and who is not licensed as a doctor of medicine or osteopathy or certified nurse midwife. "Practicing midwifery" means providing primary maternity care that is consistent with a midwife's training, education, and experience to women and their newborns throughout the childbearing cycle, and identifying and referring women or their newborns who require medical care to an appropriate practitioner.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Certification
- Certification required
- Experience
- Experience
Issuing body
- Department
- Department of Health Professions
- Board
- Virginia Board of Medicine
- Address
- 9960 Mayland Drive Suite 300 Richmond, VA 23233
- Phone
- (804) 368-4600
- Agency website
- https://www.dhp.virginia.gov/Boards/Medicine/
- Last updated
- August 11, 2023
Occupations (O*NET)
Source and verification
This record is Virginia's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
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