March 23, 1999 – It was finally the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières that was chosen by an interministerial committee of the Quebec government to host the first university training school for Quebec midwives. The announcement, which was made more than two months late on the initially planned scenario, suggests that there were some tensions on the part of certain players because the government rejected the submissions from the universities of Laval and Montreal. where there are medical schools. Outside the College of Physicians of Quebec had wanted training to be provided in a university with a faculty of medicine.
The Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières was chosen, among other things, because of the training philosophy adopted at this location, either the insistence on the human aspect of care and the choice left to the mother to give birth in a hospital or in birth center. UQTR has announced that it will collaborate with McGill University for the internship program that will be carried out with doctors. According to Mr. Rémi Tremblay, research officer of the deanship of undergraduate studies at UQTR, the chosen program is inspired by the one that has already been offered in Ontario recently.
Future midwives must have at least a college diploma but not necessarily in health sciences, provided that they include at least three courses in chemistry-biology. The four-year program will welcome a first contingent of 16 students next September. It is therefore not until 2003 that the fifty or so midwives in Quebec will begin to take over.
HealthPassport.net
