Distance Continuing Education

Following is a listing of all current Distance Continuing Education opportunities that have been approved by MEAC.

Maintain and build on your skills and knowledge as a midwife and receive MEAC continuing education credits at the same time-all from the comfort of your own home!

1. Earn 12 CE contact hours by joining the Online Journal Club for Midwives, Reviewing the Medical Literature. Read midwifery related journal articles, join an on-line group, and sharpen your skills for reviewing the medical literature. Click here for more information.

2. Earn 293 CE contact hours by completing Aviva Jill Romm's Herbal Medicine for Women Certificate Course via distance education. There are four units: Foundations in Herbal Medicine, Herbs for Gynecologic and Menstrual Health, Herbs for Childbearing Women, and Herbs for the Wisdom Years. Contact Avivajill@aol.com for more information.

3. Earn 1 CE contact hour for viewing the DVD "Basic Training for I.V. Therapy & Hypovolemic Shock Treatment" and completing the post test. Click here for more information.

4. NACPM Workshops offer distance continuing education on DVD through the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives. The courses being offered are:

The Conflict of Biological Imperatives (2.25 hours), Newborn Screening-Past, Present, and Future (1.5 hours), Neonatal Intubation-Should CPM's Include Intubation in Core Competencies? (1 hour), Beyond 59400: Billing for More than Mom (1 hour) and Umbilical Cord Clamping: First Do No Harm (1 hour).

For more information, please contact Dolly Browder, NACPM Secretary at Dbrowdercpm@gmail.com, or call 406-543-6826.

5. Earn 9.5 CE contact hours by completing the Birth Emergency Skills Training (BEST) which is offered the last weekend of every month through Aviva Institute. Click here for more information.

6. Numerous opportunities for distance continuing education credits are available via Conscious Woman, Inc., which utilizes the most technologically advanced and user-friendly online learning system in the market to take you into virtual classrooms where you can interact directly with the experts. Click here for more information.

BECOME A DISTANCE CONTINUING EDUCATION PROVIDER!

Another one of MEAC's roles is to evaluate and approve distance continuing education (CE) for midwives and other women's health care providers. Program sponsor organizations who receive MEAC approval for Continuing education programs then award continuing education units (CEU's) or contact hours to participants.

If you have a program or conference you are sponsoring and would like to offer distance continuing education credit to participants, please contact our office by email, phone, or click below for the word file "Distance CE Guidelines and Forms".

NOTE: CEU fees were raised as of January 1, 2008.

Distance Education Guidelines and Forms

Calendar of Current CE Offerings

MEAC approves Continuing Education Programs attended by professional midwives to maintain and upgrade their skills and knowledge for practice. Following is a current list of MEAC approved CEU offerings throughout the US and beyond.

Following is a listing of all on-going continuing education opportunities that have been approved by MEAC. Contact the provider for dates.

Midwifery Management of Neonatal Resuscitation. For more information on classes, please contact Karen Strange at karenmidwife@yahoo.com or Click here for more information.

Item Writing Workshop, Qualified Evaluator Workshop, Ethics and Values in Midiwfery and Everyday Life, Preceptor-Apprenticehip Relationships, MANA Stats, Preparing for Midwifery Legislation, Unravelling the Mysteries of the CPM, and Charting all offered by NARM (The North American Registry of Midwives). For more information, please contact Ida Darragh at info@narm.org or call 1-888-842-4784 or Click here for more information.

Gestational Diabetes and Physiologic Cord Closure. For more information, email Anne Frye at afrye@teleport.com or call 503-255-3378.

To view the available distance continuing education programs, Click here.

Introduction to the Shamanic Journey, San Francisco, CA

Saturday, September 13, 2008 - Sunday, September 14, 2008

MEAC CEU's available. The Foundation of the Sacred Stream presents "Introduction to the Shamanic Journey", one of the oldest technologies for understanding the world of spirit energy. This class helps deepen your relationship to yourself and others. The class has much to offer midwives, childbirth educators, doulas, nurses, healers, therapists and mothers. For more information please go to www.sacredstream.org or email info@sacredstream.org.

For more information, please click here

B.E.S.T. (Birth Emergency Skills Training) Course, Online (Aviva Institute) Course

Saturday, September 27, 2008 - Sunday, September 28, 2008

Aviva Institute presents B.E.S.T. (Birth Emergency Skills Training) Course. Aviva courses set the standard for excellence in online midwifery education. Registration for BEST is limited to licensed and/or certified providers: CPM, CNM, LM, RN, ND, MD, or those under their supervision. BEST Courses are held the final weekend of every month.

For more information please click here

Process for Approval of Continuing Education Courses

Applying for MEAC CEU's

If you have a program or conference you are sponsoring and would like to offer continuing education credit to participants, please contact our office by email, phone, or click here for the word file CE Guidelines and Forms.

The CE Guidelines and Forms document contains a checklist of all of the items that must be included in a CEU application as well as all of the necessary forms and instructions to complete the application.

Revised CE Guidelines and Forms

The CE application guidelines and forms have been revised. Be sure to click below to download and submit the most recent forms. NOTE: Forms should be submitted via email or to the new MEAC office mailing address listed in the revised guidelines and on the website.

CEU Fees

The CEU fee schedule is as follows:

$100.00 (3 contact hours or less) + $10.00 per contact hour over 3 hours OR the equivalent of course registration fee for one REGULAR admission (no discounted or late fees applied), whichever is greater. Maximum fee $600.00.

All applications received on or after January 1, 2008, will be subject to the new fee schedule.

Session/Speaker Application

If you are participating in a conference as a speaker and the sponsoring organization is applying to MEAC for continuing education approval, please find the "Session /Speaker Form" and the "Session/Speaker Form Instructions" on pages 9 and 10 of the word file "CE Guidelines and Forms".

Continuing Education Opportunities

If you are a midwife, student, apprentice or other health care provider and would like to participate in MEAC approved Continuing Education Programs, click here for a list of current courses being offered.

Click here to download a copy of the complete CE Guidelines and Forms in Word format.

More About MEAC Approved Continuing Education & CEUs

One of MEAC's roles is to evaluate continuing education (CE) for midwives and other women's health care providers. MEAC acts to "approve as appropriate" the CE programs that individual sponsors, national or state midwifery organizations offer to midwives and related professionals. Program sponsor organizations who receive MEAC approval for their intended offerings then award to participants the continuing education units (CEU's) or contact hours. MEAC does not award the CEU certificate or proof of attendance, or 'accredit' CE programs. It approves organizations to award CEU's for their CE programs after review of their applications.

Applying for MEAC CEU's

If you have a program or conference you are sponsoring and would like to offer continuing education credit to participants, please contact our office by email, phone, or click here for more information.

Continuing Education Opportunities

If you are a midwife, student, apprentice or other health care provider and would like to participate in MEAC approved Continuing Education Programs, click here for a list of current courses being offered.