Distance Education from the Birth Place of Nurse-Midwifery and Family Nursing in America
Distance Education…At the Frontier School learning at a distance is called Community-Based Education. Why?
Your community includes your class, FSMFN students, faculty, staff, alumni, your preceptor, and your home community.
"Distance education" could mean never setting foot on campus. Frontier does not think that is wise for success in distance education. So you will come to campus for an orientation and to form a community of learners to support you throughout the program.
Faculty teach using a variety of modes and state of the art technology including forums, on-line chats, web conferencing, e-mail, and old fashioned telephone calls.
Why Study at Frontier?
Pioneer History
The FSMFN was founded in 1939 by Mary Breckinridge who opened the first nurse-midwifery service in the USA the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925. The school is the longest running nurse-midwifery education program in America. In 1989 the first Community Based Nurse-Midwifery Education Program (CNEP) was developed. CNEP was a radical new way to educate nurse-midwives and the distance program has graduated over 1200 nurse-midwives from all 50 states and several foreign countries. It also served as the prototype for other distance education programs in midwifery.
Supportive Faculty
Every midwifery class has a faculty advisor who personally meets with them prior to Frontier bound to individualize their program and study. The Advisor maintains contact with each student throughout the program to support their progress.
Frontier boasts having the largest number of expert midwives on faculty who are passionate about teaching the art of midwifery. Faculty members keep regular office and appointment hours each week and have a phone dedicated to FSMFN, allowing students to have easy access to them.
Regional Clinical Coordinators can assist students in finding a clinical site and work with students and preceptors during the clinical practicum.
