OBSTETRICS & PUERICULTURE
| Professional Degree: |
| Midwife |
| Academic Degree: |
| Graduate in Obstetrics and Puericulture |
| Code: |
| 30032 |
| Duration: |
| 10 semesters |
| Study arrangements: |
| Semi-annual, daytime, semi-flexible curriculum |
| Director: |
|
Bernardita Baeza |
Program information
A Midwife is a professional in the field of health. He/She has solid scientific, humanistic, technological, ethical, and moral knowledge, to work as a member of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary health teams in the fields of sexual and reproductive health, neonatology, health management, and research.
The disciplinary skills consider diversity, interculturality, and gender, which allows the graduate to promote and protect people’s health; to diagnose and treat the pathologies that affect the sexual and reproductive health of women, their partners, newborns, families, and the community in the different stages of the life cycle.
The training promotes creativity, leadership, effective communication, continuous education, a reflective attitude, and the ability to manage and become part of health teams that allow the graduate to respond with social responsibility to the emerging needs of the community. The graduate is also able to generate new knowledge in the field, using current technological tools to contribute with his/her actions to the improvement of the community´s health and quality of life.
Occupational field
State health institutions, which are part of the network of health services or local health departments, such as hospitals of all levels of complexity, urban doctor´s offices (rural or similar), and private institutions, such as public and private clinics, family and community health centers, etc.
In addition, the graduate can work at workplaces with a high presence of women, and in specific women-related institutions; in education, participating in the promotion of health at the preschool, basic education, secondary, and higher education level; contributing to the training of professionals in the field, at universities and institutes of technical and superior technical training; in research, participating in multi-professional and interdisciplinary teams, for example those, which arise from social needs, requested by the community, adjusting to scientific-technological advances and the different demographic, epidemiological and social profiles.