Calendar of Current CE Offerings

MEAC approves Continuing Education Programs attended by professional midwives to maintain and upgrade their skills and knowledge for practice. Below is a calendar of CEU offerings throughout the US and beyond. The workshops and conferences listed have either been approved for MEAC CEUs or have applied for CEUs as indicated.

Following is a list of on-going continuing education opportunities that have been approved for MEAC CEUs.

Midwifery Volunteerism in Developing Countries Seminar. For more information please contact Vicki Penwell at vickipenwell@gmail.com or click here for more information on Midwifery Volunteerism in Developing Countries.

Supporting Women through Perinatal Loss Workshops for Childbirth Professionals with Miriam Maslin are available all across the US. Click here for more information or search below for a workshop in your area.

Midwifery Management of Neonatal Resuscitation. For more information on classes, please contact Karen Strange at karenmidwife@yahoo.com or Click here for more information.

Item Writing Workshop, Qualified Evaluator Workshop, Ethics and Values in Midiwfery and Everyday Life, Preceptor-Apprenticehip Relationships, MANA Stats, Preparing for Midwifery Legislation, Unravelling the Mysteries of the CPM, and Charting all offered by NARM (The North American Registry of Midwives). For more information, please contact Ida Darragh at info@narm.org or call 1-888-842-4784 or Click here for more information.

Gestational Diabetes and Physiologic Cord Closure. For more information, email Anne Frye at afrye@teleport.com or call 503-255-3378.

Distance Continuing Education Opportunities are also available!

To view the continuing education programs available to take from a distance, Click here.

Midwifery Volunteerism in Developing Countries

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - Thursday, February 2, 2012

This weekday intensive seminar will be taught by midwives who have worked extensively in poverty settings in Asia. Updated best-practices in maternity care for Asia, Africa, and Latin America will be shared. Classes will combine personal experience with the latest research for the International community working for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Survival, including WHO, UNICEF, USAID and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Lots of short videos from around the globe help cement the teachings. This seminar weekend will be held in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

For more information, please click here

Midwifery Volunteerism in Developing Countries

Saturday, February 18, 2012 - Sunday, February 19, 2012

This weekend intensive seminar will be taught by midwives who have worked extensively in poverty settings in Asia. Updated best-practices in maternity care for Asia, Africa, and Latin America will be shared. Classes will combine personal experience with the latest research for the International community working for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Survival, including WHO, UNICEF, USAID and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Lots of short videos from around the globe help cement the teachings. This seminar weekend will be held in Ashville, NC.

For more information, please click here

Midwifery Volunteerism in Developing Countries

Friday, February 24, 2012 - Saturday, February 25, 2012

This intensive seminar will be taught by midwives who have worked extensively in poverty settings in Asia. Updated best-practices in maternity care for Asia, Africa, and Latin America will be shared. Classes will combine personal experience with the latest research for the International community working for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Survival, including WHO, UNICEF, USAID and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Lots of short videos from around the globe help cement the teachings. This seminar weekend will be held in Comber, Ontario, Canada near Detroit, MI.

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Process for Approval of Continuing Education Courses

Applying for MEAC CEU's

If you have a program or conference you are sponsoring and would like to offer continuing education credit to participants, please click here for the word file CEU Guidelines and Forms. The CEU application guidelines and forms are revised regularly. Be sure to download the most recent forms before beginning your application.

For individuals seeking CEU approval on courses or workshops they intend to offer independently, please download the following CEU Guidelines and Forms, for the word file CEU Guidelines and Forms

A separate application is available to apply to offer Distance CEUs. Click here for the word file Distance CEU Application Guidelines and Forms

The downloadable continuing education Guidelines and Forms documents contain a checklist of all of the items that must be included in a CEU application as well as all of the necessary forms and instructions to complete the application.

!!NEW!! Electronic Submissions Only

AS OF OCTOBER 1, 2010, ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY. WE PREFER YOU SEND YOUR APPLICATION AS AN EMAIL ATTACHMENT, HOWEVER FOR VERY LARGE FILES YOU CAN SEND A CD OR THUMB DRIVE TO THE MEAC OFFICE. An alternative for sending large files is to use www.yousendit.com or other similar services.

CEU Fees

The maximum application fee is $300.00 OR the equivalent of one course registration fee for a REGULAR admission (no discounted or late fees applied), whichever is greater. Please see the CEU Application and Instructions for the formula for calculating the CEU application fee. Payment can be made below via the "Pay Now" button or checks for the application fee can be mailed to the MEAC office, PO Box 984, La Conner, WA 98257. If your payment amount is NOT in the pull down menu below, contact the office and we will email you an invoice for payment.

Session/Speaker Application

If you are participating in a conference as a speaker and the sponsoring organization is applying to MEAC for continuing education approval, please find the "Session /Speaker Form" and the "Session/Speaker Form Instructions" on pages 9 and 10 of the CEU Guidelines and Forms, which can be downloaded from the link above.

Continuing Education Opportunities

If you are a midwife, student, apprentice or other health care provider and would like to participate in MEAC approved Continuing Education Programs, click here for a list of current courses being offered.

Distance Continuing Education

One of MEAC's roles is to evaluate and approve distance continuing education (CE) for midwives and other women's health care providers. Program sponsors who receive MEAC approval for continuing education programs then award continuing education units (CEU's) or contact hours to participants.

Following is a listing of all current Distance Continuing Education opportunities that have been approved by MEAC.

Maintain and build on your skills and knowledge as a midwife and receive MEAC continuing education credits at the same time-all from the comfort of your own home!

Resolving Shoulder Dystocia for the Active, Mobile Woman Course
Earn 3 CE contact hours by completing the online education, Resolving Shoulder Dystocia for the Active, Mobile Woman. Gaily Tully teaches this hands-on class for midwives, their active apprentices, and L & D nurses. Physicians and residents are also very welcome.
For more information contact Gail email gail@spinningbabies.com visit the website http://www.spinningbabies.com

No More Kegels
This course was developed in response to skyrocketing rates of occurrence of Pelvic Floor Disorder, in an effort to bring the education and treatment of PFD in line with the science, which currently it is not, which is the reason the problem continues to get worse. Most literature on PFD gives some if not most of the blame for PFD on pregnancy and childbirth, despite the data that shows PFD rates to be equal among women who have never had children.
For more information email http://www.katysays.com/ visit the website http://www.instantpresenter.com/PIID=EF57DF8880

The Wisdom of the Thirteen Moons
The Wisdom of the Thirteen Moons was created to help midwives that are already working and those aspiring to become midwives to learn traditional ways of working with natural modalities instead of working with pharmaceutical drugs and ultra sounds in birth. The Wisdom Series will be specifically dealing with many situations that experienced midwives face and give a more traditional approach to dealing with them. Dealing with the overall health of the pregnant woman, bleeding after birth and more importantly, avoiding it in the first place.
For more information contact Clare Loprinzi call 808-333-8990 email ClareLoprinzi@gmail.com visit the website http://www.MammaPrimitiva.com

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