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Extra skills that expand what you can do

• Newborn resuscitation and emergency skills

  Required refreshers every few years, and worth doing early.

• Indigenous midwifery

  Community-based programs in the North and on some First Nations train and support Indigenous midwives to bring birth back to their communities.

• Expanded prescribing

  Some provinces let midwives with extra courses prescribe more drugs and order more tests.

• Master's degree

  Teaching, research and policy work.