A intern midwife is an apprentice who has stepped into the role of a primary midwife under direct supervision within a midwifery practice. The apprentice has already performed all midwifery skills at different times throughout the births she has attended and has now been deemed ready by her senior midwife and herself to become a primary midwife under supervision. An intern is completely supervised by her senior midwife at all times both in her performance of skills and her decision making during care as they work together in partnership. In the role of primary, she must attend a minimum of 20 births with full documentation in order to qualify to sit for the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) board exam and skill assessment for Certified Professional Midwife or CPM. Jen Anderson-Tarver, intern to Julie Hughes at MOSAIC MIDWIFERY, is actively pursuing her CPM through NATIONAL MIDWIFERY INSTITUTE, a MEAC accredited school. MEAC is the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council responsible for overseeing and upholding the values set forth by NARM. Her academic distance program, coupled with clinical skills documented during her concurrent apprenticeship and internship, represents one route to gain eligibility for the NARM written board exam, oral skills assessment and ultimately the CPM credential.
Julie oversees Jen perform the newborn exam, but first the dad cuts the cord (used with permission).
