The National College of Midwifery was founded in 1989 by the New Mexico Midwives' Association and the Northern New Mexico Midwifery Center under the name The New Mexico College of Midwifery. Its purpose is to preserve and improve the apprenticeship route for midwifery education while providing a rigorous grounding in Science.
The College is a not-for-profit educational corporation governed by a board of directors consisting primarily of licensed and student midwives in New Mexico.
The College is licensed as a Postsecondary Institution by the
New Mexico Commission on Higher Education,
5301 central NE, Suite 1500,
Albuquerque, NM 87108
Tel: 505-841-6611,
The College obtained its accreditation in 2001 from the
Midwifery Education Accreditation Council
220 W. Birch
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Tel: 520-214-0997.
The College is presently run by founding President, Elizabeth Gilmore, LM, who is founder of the Northern New Mexico Women's Health and Birth Center (a nationally accredited and freestanding birth center), now doing business as The Northern New Mexico Midwifery Center. Elizabeth Gilmore is Chair of the New Mexico Midwives Association Education Committee.