What you need to know beforeyou go!
If you are curious about pursuing midwifery on an international level or just want to plan ahead for a future in travel midwifery or overseas work, this course will be a great foundation and will give you the resources you need. This course will help you to practically realize your dreams of travel midwifery by exploring your goals and intentions and hence arrive at the type of midwifery travel most suited for you.
IS IT worthIT?
Have you dreamed of taking your midwifery practice around the world? Would you like to become a traveling midwife with true integrity? Are you unsure of the who, what, when, and where logistics? We get you. There have been no clear paths laid out for how to accomplish this common dream…Until now!
Whether your interests lie in volunteer work, paid private hire or providing humanitarian aid, practical aspects of all these options are included in this course.
Cultural humility and sensitivity will be at the heart of this course, and we will take an in-depth look at what maternity care is like in low-resource settings around the globe. This course also includes a brief section on diseases common to these settings.
Literally, all your questions about how you can live out this dream- it’s here!
INVESTMENT: $250
whatWILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE?
- private midwifery
- volunteering
- humanitarian aid
- visas & vaccinations
- what to pack & what to leave behind
- know yourself-know your limits
- know your timeline
- ethics & accountability
- understanding white saviourism
- cultural appropriation
- language considerations
- clothing & modesty
- cultural humility
- living conditions
- food
- health considerations
- infectious disease
- vector borne disease
- birth culture & rituals
- maternity care in low resource environments
- fgm
- confronting death
- compassion fatigue & trauma stress
- confronting death & understanding secondary trauma
- Culture shock & processing your experience
- compassion fatigue
- resources for building a foundation in travel midwifery
KRISTINE LAURIA, CPM
MEET YOUR COURSE MENTOR
KRISTINE LAURIA, CPM
Kristine Lauria is an international midwife and has been involved in women’s health for over 32 years.
She is an expert in high-risk maternity care in low-resource environments. She has attended over 5000 births in more than 25 countries around the world. A specialist in breech birth, she has written depositions and given expert testimony in court on the subject.
She is passionate in her support of bodily autonomy in medical decision making and is a staunch advocate for undisturbed, physiologic birth. When not on assignment with MSF (Doctors Without Borders), Kristine can be found kayaking, gardening or hiking with her dog.
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FOR THE COURSE!
LEARN THIS
INVALUABLE SKILL
PRACTICE & TRAVEL
WITH CONFIDENCE!
INVESTMENT: $250
8 hours CEU from MEAC and 8 CEs from ACNM, 7 CPDs from Australia/NZ
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