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99-year-old Salt Spring Island resident donates 250 handmade quilts to UBC Midwifery Program for Ugandan babies
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Admissions 2014 Update – February 20th, 2014
The Assessment Team is completing the last reviews of all supplemental applications. The Midwifery Program will be compiling the scores in combination with GPA assessments completed by Enrolment Services, and will be contacting those eligible for Interviews by the end of February/early March. Interviews for the 20 seats offered for the Fall of 2014 will…
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U.S. home births found to have low intervention and mortality rates
UBC Midwifery Associate Professor, Saraswathi Vedam (second from left) assists at a home birth. Planned home births among low-risk women in the U.S. result in low rates of birth interventions without an increase in adverse outcomes for mothers and babies, according to research by the University of British Columbia and three U.S. universities. The study…
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Midwifery, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
In December 2023, UNESCO inscribed “Midwifery: knowledge, skills and practices” onto its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This recognition underscores the universal significance of midwifery across diverse cultures.
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