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4 unusual facts about midwifery


BTEC Extended Diploma

The BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma is popular amongst school leavers who wish to pursue Nursing, Midwifery or other health professions as the BTEC Health course gives more thorough preparation than A Levels would for the degree course.

Leonardo Conti

Conti was born to a Swiss Italian father, Silvio, and a German mother, Nanna Pauli, in Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland; his mother later became the Reich Midwifery Leader in Nazi Germany.

Lorenz Adlon

Lorenz Adlon was born in Mainz as Laurenz, the sixth out of nine children of shoemaker Jacob Adlon and his wife Anna Maria Elisabeth Schallot, an accoucheuse.

Mahendralal Sarkar

He had an exceptionally brilliant carer in that college, where, besides winning several scholarships, he passed the final examination in 1860 with the highest honors in Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery.


Asia-Pacific International University

Study programs were expanded in 1955 with the addition of a course in Midwifery followed later by programs in Medical Technology, X-ray Technology and Anesthesia.

Barbara Vernon

Midwifery in Australia - emerging from the shadows with Jenny Gamble in "Midwifery - freedom to practise?", ed Lindsay Reid, Churchill Livingston Elsevier, 2007, ISBN 978-0-443-10312-4

General Lying-In Hospital

At least 150,000 babies were born at the hospital and it is said that Florence Nightingale took a personal interest in the associated midwifery training school.

Juliana Azumah-Mensah

A year later, she trained in Midwifery at the Saint Peter’s Hospital at Chertsey in Surrey graduating in August, 1975 as a State Certified Midwife.

Myra Bennett

Bennett (née Grimsley) worked as a tailor in London before training as a nurse at Woolwich and a course in midwifery at Clapham School of Midwifery.

Raquela Prywes

Raquela Prywes (Hebrew: רחלה פריבס; born Raquela Levy, 1924 in Jerusalem; died March, 1985) was a nurse in Israel, trained in midwifery, and obstetrics, at the Hadassah Medical Center.

William Overend Priestley

In 1858 he was appointed lecturer on midwifery at the Middlesex Hospital, and in 1862 he was elected professor of obstetric medicine at King's College London, and obstetric physician to King's College Hospital, in the place of Arthur Farre.

Yale School of Nursing

Yale School of Nursing offers degrees in Nursing, including a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree with Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Management, Policy and Leadership, and Nurse-Midwifery specialties.

Year of Wonders

Anys is lynched and Mem dies of pneumonia after being dunked, leaving the village without their skills in herbal medicines and midwifery.


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