CLINICAL OPPORTUNITIES	Face-to-face hands on clinical skills lab:			Are students required to find their own clinical sites?	When do students begin the clinical practicum?	Is clinical and didactic work combined so that didactic content is matched with clinical experience? (i.e. students complete antepartum didactic work while doing antepartum clinical)	Are out of hospital clinical opportunities offered?	Comments	Website
	Are they offered?	If offered, are they mandatory?	At what point during the program are they offered?
Baylor University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	Yes	5th semester	Yes	Yes	**It depends on the attributes of the clinical site. We have only one site where students can stay for the whole program	http://www.baylor.edu/nursing/index.php?id=928855
Baystate Medical Center Midwifery Education Program	Yes	Yes	Throughout	No	First semester	Clinical experience and didactic are concurrent.	No	* Home birth experiences are not offered but outpatient clinical opportunities are available in federally funded neighborhood health centers and a women's correctional facility	https://www.baystatehealth.org/education-research/education/midwifery-education-program
Bethel University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula*	No	Integrated throughtout the program	Yes	Yes**	* Prior to starting clinical rotations (2 of them) and one at the end of the program **They are offered if placements can be found. Birth centers accredited by CABC are used.	http://gs.bethel.edu/academics/masters/nurse-midwifery/
California State University, Fullerton	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes*	*For especially interested candidates and for short term, anectdotal experience, not the main site of clinical practicum	http://nursing.fullerton.edu/programs/msnwhc/
Case Western Reserve University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes		http://bit.ly/2aPInxT
Columbia University	Yes	Yes	At the beginning of the term*	No		Yes	Yes	* Prior to beginning each clinical rotation ** Faculty and site decision *** There is an honorarium for the midwifery service	http://bit.ly/2ahCWqZ
East Carolina University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes	* Birth center experience only.  Home birth not offered. ** Minimal amount paid by AHEC that goes to the practice, does not go towards government agenecies or other AHECs	http://www.ecumidwifery.net/
Emory University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes*	* Birth center placements in addition to hospital based placements for intrapartum ** varies depending on the site	http://bit.ly/2bhEpCc
Fairfield University	Yes	Yes		No		Yes	Yes		https://www.fairfield.edu/graduate/academics/egan-school-of-nursing-and-health-studies/programs/doctor-of-nursing-practice-nurse-midwifery/
Frontier University of Midwifery and Family Nursing	Yes	Yes	After completion of didactics	Yes*	After completing all the didactic coursework	No	Yes	* Clinical placement is done with assistance from Regional Clinical Faculty and credentialiing department ** WHNP is offered for FNU Midwifery grads in a one course addition	http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife
Georgetown University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula*	No**		Yes	Yes	* 3 on campus intensives ** Students may work with Nursing @ Georgetown clinical placement team	http://online.nursing.georgetown.edu/academics/nurse-midwifery-womens-health-nurse-practitioner/
Marquette University College of Nursing Midwifery Program	Yes	Yes	During all clinical midwifery courses	No	Fall of first clinical year	Yes	No	Clinical experiences are offered in a variety of urban and rural practices in Milwaukee and around the state of WI and Northern IL.	http://www.marquette.edu/nursing/Academic/Graduate.shtml
Thomas Jefferson University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	Yes*	Final four terms of program including cinical practicum	No**	Yes	* Students are asked to identify potential preceptors. A clinical coordinator and administrative assistant can assist students to navigate this process and suggest possibilities based on past program experience.   Once the potential site is identified by the student, the university completes the vetting, credentialing, and contracting with the site and supports the student and the preceptor with regular faculty conferences throughout the clinical placement. Preceptors are offered the opportunity to apply for clinical adjunct faculty appointment.                                        **Students take on-line didactic courses for 2 semesters (FT) or 5 semesters (PT) and then continue online didactic coursework while participating in concurrent clinical learning for the remaining semesters. Students have two semesters of comprehensive ambulatory clinical and two full semesters of integrated full scope clinical.	http://www.philau.edu/midwifery/index.html
NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing	Yes	Yes	At the beginning of the term*	No		Yes	Yes	* At the beginning of each term there is a week of hands on skills lab that is relevant for the start of that clinical rotation ** depends on the site	http://bit.ly/2au9MrT
Ohio State University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes		http://tinyurl.com/n3g5apg
Oregon Health Sciences University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes		http://bit.ly/2an3SoM
Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences Nurse Midwifery Education Program	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	Yes*		Yes	Yes	* Faculty finds most sites	http://bit.ly/2aCpHoY
San Diego State University	Yes	Yes	Final 3 semesters of the program	No		Yes	Yes	* home birth and birth center sites if student is highly interested	http://bit.ly/2aPAgl7
Seattle University	Yes	Yes	Throughout the program, for every clinical related course topics	No		Yes	Yes		http://bit.ly/2oXXXlr
Shenandoah University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes	* We supply learning materials, hand held devices, and other means of support to preceptors directly so that they can maintain their credentials	http://www.su.edu/nursing/graduate-degrees-post-masters-certificate/nurse-midwifery-programs/
State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center	Yes	Yes	2 year program: Semesters 1,2,& 4          3 year program: Semesters 3, 4, & 6	No		Yes	Yes**	*FT: semesters 1, 2, 4, PT: semesters 3, 4, 6 ** Minimal birth center and home birth experience	http://www.downstate.edu/CHRP/midwifery/
SUNY Stony Brook University School of Nursing	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula*	Yes		Yes	Yes	* Health assessment and each of 4 clinical courses	http://bit.ly/2aDGWUc
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	Yes*		Yes	Yes	* assistance provided	http://bit.ly/2a4ZWgw
University of California at San Francisco	Yes	Yes	Throughout	No		Yes	Yes*	* All hospital based clinicals, students can choose to do integration at a birth center	http://nursing.ucsf.edu/nurse-midwifery-curriculum
University of Cincinnati Nurse-Midwifery	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	Yes		Yes	Yes		http://nursingonline.uc.edu/
University of Colorado Denver	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes		http://tinyurl.com/bwhybvj
University of Illinois at Chicago	Yes	Yes	Once midwifery coursework begins	No	Clinical begins once management courses begin	No	Yes		http://bit.ly/2ajBQgt
University of Kansas	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula and at the beginning of the term (2-5 times a semester)	No		No	Yes		http://nursing.kumc.edu/academics/doctor-of-nursing-practice/nurse-midwife.html
University of Michigan	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula and at the beginning of the term	No		Yes	Yes*	* but these sites are limited and may require travel outside of michigan ** opportunities for preceptors include continuing education like an ICD-10 coding workshop	http://www.nursing.umich.edu/academic-programs/masters-programs/nurse-midwife
University of Minnesota	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes	* All students attend births at 2 different sites	http://www.nursing.umn.edu/DNP/specialties/nurse-midwifery/index.htm
University of New Mexico	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes		http://bit.ly/2aiI5ha
University of Pennsylvania Midwifery Graduate Program	Yes	Yes	Begins in first semester	No	Students begin clinical practicum in the first semester	Yes	Yes	*Univ. of Penn hospital was one of 5 organizations selected to participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration, which provided funsing for clinical training of APRNs (2012-2016)	http://bit.ly/2aDIA8c
University of Pittsburgh	Yes	Yes	Throughout the program	No		Some but not all	Yes	*Students have not started clinical yet.  We anticipate 1 primary care site, 2 women’s health sites, one AP/IP site, 2 newborn care sites, and 1 integration site	http://bit.ly/2au08FT
University of Utah	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes*	* only if available through indivisual residency program	http://nursing.utah.edu/programs/dnp/midwifery.php
University of Washington	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes		https://nursing.uw.edu/programs/degree/absn-dnp/
Vanderbilt University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No	First semester	Yes	Yes	* Students are placed at a variety of clinical sites to enable them to have a variety of clinical experiences and exposure to midwifery in many settings ** Preceptors have the opportunity to become adjunct faculty and will then have commensurate benefits such as access to the digital library, tuition discount accrual, and more.	http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/nursing/msn/nmw.html
Wayne State University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes		http://www.nursing.wayne.edu/midwife.php
Yale University	Yes	Yes	At relevant points in curricula	No		Yes	Yes	* Yale attempts to limit the number of clinical sites used by students ** information is proprietary	http://bit.ly/2awhQXB