Department of Midwifery, Wolkite University

After a year of the establishment of the University, Midwifery department was launched in the 2013–2014 G.C. with the enrollment of 60 students and 5 instructors. About 400 midwife professionals have been graduated from the department as of this writing. The department currently offers undergraduate and graduate programs. The department works to prepare students who are well-equipped with maternal & child health care knowledge and skills that are critical to reducing problems associated with under developments & environmental changes. Graduates are anticipated to be more sympathetic and driven to address the problems faced by mothers and children who are socially and economically disadvantaged.

Midwifery department aspires to develop midwives who are able to be with women in any society acknowledging that people continue to experience inequalities, deprivations and injustices as well as a growing number of professional, family and environmental stresses. Midwifery education, through its content and processes, will be individually and collectively liberating in terms of gender, class, race, sexuality and creed. Midwifery education seeks to facilitate the development of skilled, caring, knowledgeable and effective midwives who communicate openly and engender trust from a wide range of people.

The program provider believes that all midwifery education should be formulated in content, design and delivery to assist those who wish to pursue the ancient and noble art of midwifery. We wish to see midwifery education attracting applicants with a vocational commitment to mothers, babies, families and midwifery and meeting their diverse social, personal and educational needs. Visionary midwifery is enabled by non-hierarchical relationships and this needs to be reflected in the way we educate future midwives.

 MIDWIFERY PROGRAM GOALS:- To produce competent midwives with a complex mix of knowledge, skill, attitudes, and preparing competent graduate midwives to their expected professional roles in the broader society

MISSION OF MIDWIFERY PROGRAM:-  To train competent, compassionate, respectful, and caring midwives who can provide holistic sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent and youth health services at community and health facility levels with focus on health promotion and disease prevention       

CORE VALUE OF MIDWIFERY PROGRAM :- Excellence: The department's operations are all effective, efficient, creative, and eliminate resource waste, including graduates.

Inclusiveness: The department fosters diversity in terms of gender, religion and race, and encourages teamwork for a common goal.

Integrity: The department believes that the university community bears responsibility for each and every action taken and significantly improves society.

Promotes learning: Growing and learning are behaviors ingrained in our culture.

Accountability: The department is committed to accepting full responsibility for all choices.

Academic freedom: The department supports open discussion and the free exchange of ideas as well as free and critical thought and inquiry.

April 10/2023

THEMATIC AREAS OF MIDWIFERY PROFESSION

• Preconception care
• Adolescent and Youth Health
• Infertility
• Birth notification and registration (CRVS)

• Sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR)

• Regulation in midwifery practice
• Comprehensive abortion care
• Operative delivery care
• Instrumental delivery
• PMTCT

• SRH in Humanitarian situation
• Antenatal care
• Labor and delivery
• Postnatal care
• Family planning
• Neonatal and child health care
• Immunization
• Education, clinical supervision, guiding, and ME
• Gynecologic cares
• Counseling
• Emergency obstetric care
• Management and leadership
• Research

Graduation Requirement of undergraduate Midwifery students

A student enrolled in the BSc midwifery program is eligible for graduation if and only if he/she:

1. Has taken all the required courses for the program and obtained a minimum CGPA of 2.

2. Student should be able to pass comprehensive exam of the department, before graduation with passing score.
3. Students who fail the comprehensive exam of the department, he/she shall retake the exam after receiving adequate tutorial and clinical attachment for two months.
4. The student should pass the compressive exam to sit for licensure examination administered by external examiners (MOH).
5. Has not scored ‘F’ grade in any course, and should score at least ‘C’ grade in any practicum and core course
6. Has carried out a student research project on a selected and agreed topic of research problem and scored a minimum of ‘C’ grade in his/her research report.

            April 11, 2023