Midwifery Research and Education Unit
Midwifery is one of the world’s oldest professions. Parturitions are important events in every culture and pregnancy and childbirth are natural occurrences in a woman’s life.
In former times as well as today, midwives have attended to the course of normal pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care.
Our goal is to cultivate, preserve and advance midwifery skills. Taking these tasks seriously, we are interested in providing the best possible care for parents.
The Hannover Medical School offers a European Master of Science in Midwifery. The course takes place mostly online. Applications for fall are accepted until July 15th annually for the ten spots available. For more details, please see Midwifery Study Course section.
On this homepage you are able to find information about different topics and assignments we are working on at the moment.
PD Dr. Mechthild M. Gross, RM RN BSc MSc
This category presents ongoing projects, including the OptiBirth study, the ProGeb study, ProKind and the German association for Midwifery Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hebammenwissenschaft, DGHWi). One further study examines maternal well-being after preterm delivery.
Information about the European Bachelor of Science in Midwifery as well as the European Master of Science in Midwifery is presented here.
This column presents information about our current choice of further education, conferences and activities.
This section deals with the “NRW-Projekt” and the “Midwifery literature service”.
This link provides information about the midwifery consultation-hour and the project "Taking Courage for giving birth".
Information about our team.
