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The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG), with funding from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, launched the Maternity Care Education and Practice Redesign project in February 2017. The goal of the project is to develop interprofessional education (IPE) models that lead to a change in intrapartum maternity care practices and an increase in the interprofessional maternity workforce by educating more midwifery students in residency clinical sites where space is available. The underlying problems that this project seeks to address are the current and impending workforce shortages in primary care for women, in particular for maternity care services, and the less than stellar maternity care outcomes in the US. We intend to address both of these issues through the development and implementation of an IPE curriculum for midwifery students and ob-gyn residents that will both redesign clinical care for women into a collaborative..

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