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Volume 37, Issue 4

Publication date: October 1, 2011
Expiration date: October 1, 2014

Collaborative Practice with Midwifery

Richard N. Waldman, MD (Moderator)

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse, New York; Immediate Past President, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Washington, DC

Holly Powell Kennedy, CNM, PhD

Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery, Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut; President, American College of Nurse-Midwives, Silver Spring, Maryland

Owen C. Montgomery, MD

Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Immediate Past Chairman, District III, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, the physician should be better able to:

1.	Define a certified nurse midwife, a certified midwife, and a certified professional midwife.
2.	List the reasons for the projected shortage of obstetricians.
3.	List the benefits of collaborative practice
4.	Describe the barriers to collaborative practice
5.	Discuss the document entitled “Joint Statement of Practice Relations Between Obstetrician-Gynecologists and Certified Nurse-Midwives/Certified Midwives.”