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The path
Outside Quebec: a four-year degree you enter straight from high school. No nursing degree required. Quebec has its own route: tap Quebec route to add it.
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High school
Grades 11 and 12
Biology, chemistry, English. Programs are small and competitive; high 80s helps.
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Bachelor of Midwifery
4 years
A 4-year degree. About half of it is clinical placement with practising midwives, where you attend dozens of births before you graduate.
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CMRE (Canadian Midwifery Registration Examination)
After graduation
A national multiple-choice exam, written online with a remote proctor, offered twice a year in spring and fall. Quebec graduates do not write it.
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Register with your provincial college
A few weeks
For example the College of Midwives of Ontario. New registrants have a period with extra oversight.
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Join a practice group
Right after
You do not apply to a hospital. You join or start a midwifery practice, which holds the hospital privileges.