The most complete training in the field of Pregnancy Pathologies for Midwives in the entire educational market: a broad and complete professional master’s degree, unique in its specialty"

This professional master’s degree has been created as a complete training tool for midwives in the field of neonatal pathologies, offering a complete and updated review of all new developments and advances in this field.

With 60 credits, it is also a highly qualified training leap for professionals in this branch of health. With the quality and attention to training efficiency that only TECH can put at your disposal.

A unique opportunity to take the leap towards excellence in your profession.

This professional master’s degree includes absolutely everything related to obstetric pathology, always using the most updated guidelines that have been published, as well as all the information included in the protocols that govern their care work, such as those of the Spanish Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics and the World Health Organization.

Midwives work on a daily basis with pregnant women suffering from some type of pathology, whether or not derived from pregnancy, and training is sometimes scarce during residency.  

More and more maternity wards have a specific pathological pregnancy ward, and some midwives have not had a rotation during the two years of the specialty: this professional master’s degree can be used to provide comprehensive training with scientific rigor to perform work based on the best scientific evidence.

 A novel and necessary approach to healthcare training that is the first of its kind.   

Become a highly qualified professional with this unique professional master’s degree in Pregnancy Pathologies for Midwives"

This professional master’s degree in Pregnancy Pathologies for Midwives offers you all the features of a high-level scientific, teaching, and technological course.  These are some of its most notable features:

• Latest technology in online teaching software
• Highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Self-regulating learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

A professional master’s degree that will enable you to face the most complex situations in the field of pregnancy pathologies, with the solvency of a high-level professional"

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals from different fields related to this specialty. In this way, we ensure that we provide you with the training update we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of professionals trained and experienced in different environments, who will cover the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will put the practical knowledge derived from their own experience at the service of the course: one of the differential qualities of this course.

Command of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this TECH professional master’s degree in Pregnancy Pathologies for Midwives. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. This way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need in your training.  

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use telepractice:  with the help of an innovative interactive video system, and learning from an expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way. 

A professional master’s degree that will enable you to face the most complex situations in the field of pregnancy pathologies, with the solvency of a high-level professional"

With the experience of expert professionals who will contribute their experience in this field to the programme, making this training a unique opportunity for professional growth"

Our objective is to train highly qualified professionals for work experience. An objective that is complemented, moreover, in a global manner, by promoting human development that lays the foundations for a better society. This objective is focused on helping medical professionals reach a much higher level of expertise and control. A goal that, in just six months, you will be able to achieve with a highly intensive and precise course. 

If your objective is to broaden your skill set to include new paths of success and development, this is your professional master’s degree: a specialization that aspires to excellence"

General Objective

• Update knowledge in pathology during the first trimester of gestation
• Integrate new knowledge about fetal malformations, their causes and resolution
• Teach about the hemorrhagic pathology of the first trimester and its differential diagnoses
• Update the student's knowledge in everything related to the pathology of the digestive system and its interaction with pregnancy 
• Inform about medication of digestive pathologies and their possible teratogenesis
• Integrate the diagnostic difficulties of digestive diseases in pregnancy due to the physiological changes that occur during pregnancy
• Update knowledge in hematological and cardiac matters, as well as their main particularities in pregnancy
• Integrate the different genetic transmissions of hematological diseases  
• Be updated on the different prophylactic treatments for cardiology patients in pregnancy 
• The student will gain in-depth training in neurological pathology and its relationship with pregnancy  
• They will integrate knowledge related to musculoskeletal ailments that pregnant women are susceptible to
• There will be training in autoimmune diseases and their importance in pregnancy
• The student will study the autoimmune and rheumatic pathologies that most frequently affect pregnancy  
• The student will receive knowledge of all respiratory diseases affecting pregnancy
• They will learn about the main urological pathologies that affect pregnancy
• They will acquire knowledge about tropical and subtropical diseases that are becoming more and more frequent in our environment
• The student will acquire knowledge about gestational pathologies that affect its duration, either by excess, as in prolonged gestation, or by defect, as in premature births 
• The student will study in depth fetal pathologies that affect growth 
• Protocols such as fetal neuroprotection and fetal lung maturation will be studied
• The student will expand their knowledge of placental pathology in pregnancy
• They will learn about pathologies of the umbilical cord that can occur during gestation
• They will also acquire the knowledge to be able to perform a good clinical management in an emergency situation 
• The student will learn the management and indications for instrumental deliveries and cesarean sections
• They will learn the considerations to take into account in deliveries with variants of normality, such as breech deliveries or deliveries with a previous cesarean section
• Learn about the different ways of initiating labor, such as premature rupture of membranes and induction   
• The student will gain in-depth knowledge of the hypertensive pathology of pregnancy, as well as the most serious complications derived from it 
• They will also be trained in endocrine pathology, with emphasis on those that most affect pregnancy: diabetes and thyroid pathology
• They will study the main gynecological cancers in pregnancy
• The student will study problems related to the puerperium, including infections and hemorrhage
• The student will study the complications of breastfeeding
• There will also be training about legal abortion in our country and its indications

Specific Objectives

Module 1.

• Learn about hemorrhagic pathology of the first trimester, such as miscarriage, molas and ectopic pregnancy, as well as their main causes, diagnosis and treatment, since it is common to find this type of pathology in the work units of midwives.
• Update knowledge on prenatal diagnosis and the latest protocols for suspected fetal malformations
• Analyze the different infectious diseases that can cause congenital fetal defects, in order to be able to act on their prevention in daily healthcare practice
• Learn about the management of pregnancies with sociodemographic risk, such as adolescent pregnancies, in order to be able to act on them with sientific rigor

Module 2.

• Update knowledge on some of the most frequent pathologies in pregnancy, such as hyperemesis gravidarum, a pathology that occurs frequently in pregnancy, and which is the target of work of midwives in emergency and high obstetric risk units
• Learn the importance of early diagnosis of pathologies such as intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, which can have fatal consequences if not treated correctly. Midwives work with these patients on a daily basis in all inpatient units as well as in primary care
• They will broaden their knowledge of viral hepatitis in pregnancy, which, due to its special considerations in childbirth, is the subject of detailed study by midwives
• Describe the pathology that affects gastric discomfort during pregnancy, such as reflux, an ailment that pregnant women ask about during pregnancy on numerous occasions. Describe the main hygienic measures to fight against it

Module 3.

• Learn how to manage the main hematological pathologies that occur frequently during pregnancy, such as gestational anemia and thrombopenias. It is of vital importance to learn the analytical values in order to be able to offer adequate analgesia methods during labor 
• Comprehensively delve into perinatal hemolytic disease, which was a cause of death until a few years ago due to a lack of knowledge. To avoid these consequences, it is important for midwives to be trained in their prevention and treatment 
• Discuss the main controversies of cardiac pathologies in pregnancy, as some of them may contraindicate pregnancy. That is why it is essential to have complete training in this type of pathologies and highly complex patients

Module 4.

• Expand knowledge in neurological pathologies that are in continuous research and evolution, such as multiple sclerosis, a complex pathology in which midwives must be trained to perform a correct clinical and psychological approach 
• Update knowledge on antiepileptic medication, since many of these drugs are teratogenic, and are the subject of consultation by patients
• Delve into dermatological pathology, which will allow the student to perform an adequate approach in the emergency and consultation units. It is of utmost importance to know how to refer important dermatological problems and to be aware of the physiological changes that occur during pregnancy
• Analyze the autoimmune diseases that affect pregnancy, since many of them are an indication for early termination of pregnancy, such as lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome. The protocols for these pathologies are constantly being updated
• Train on musculoskeletal pathology, because although it is not generally serious, it is something that affects the majority of pregnant women who seek solutions, so midwives must be properly trained to be able to offer effective solutions

Module 5.

• Update the knowledge of bronchial asthma and pregnancy, since it is estimated that 1% of pregnant women suffer from it, being the most frequent respiratory pathology
• Gain a deeper knowledge of the influenza virus and its influence on pregnancy, due to the main complications it presents, and because it is the subject of hospital admission on numerous occasions  
• Learn how to make a differential diagnosis between different urological and renal pathologies, which are very frequent during pregnancy, so much so that asymptomatic bacteriuria is screened and midwives must know how and when it should be performed
• Learn about the effects of tropical and subtropical diseases on the fetus and gestation in general, since this is a new topic that is under continuous study. In some protocols, some of these microorganisms are being included as screening in the serology of pregnant women

Module 6.

• Describe the obstetric management of a fetus diagnosed with RIC or fetal macrosomia, as it concerns midwives throughout gestation, as well as during delivery and puerperium due to the special care of the newborn
• Learn the exhaustive management of preterm labor and prolonged gestation, since due to their incidence, midwives must know their diagnosis, treatment and complications for both the mother and the fetus and/or neonate
• Learn how multiple gestations occur and how they are classified according to their chorionicity. Multiple gestations are increasing exponentially in our environment in recent years, so midwives should be trained with the latest literature on their management and delivery considerations
• The administration protocols of magnesium sulfate and antenatal corticosteroids for neuroprotection and fetal lung maturation, respectively, will also be studied as separate chapters due to their importance in the daily work of the midwife Midwives are directly responsible for administering the medication, preparing it and monitoring its side effects, so they must be properly trained in this field

Module 7.  

• Learn about obstetric accidents and how to act is an indispensable role in the work of the midwife, since in most cases it is necessary to act within seconds to avoid fatal consequences. In most cases, the midwife is in charge of making the diagnosis because they are the people who usually spends the most time with the pregnant women in the hospitalization units
• Teach about placental problems that may occur in any of the trimesters and about which patients will refer doubts to the obstetrical staff
• Understand the pathology of the umbilical cord in depth, since some of its defects are accompanied by fetal anomalies, and it is the midwife who is the first to be able to objectify it on many occasions 

Module 8.  

• Gaining exhaustive knowledge of the different ways of initiating labor, whether spontaneous, induced or by premature rupture of membranes, is essential in the midwife's work, since all pregnant women will go through this process 
• Learning about births that are not natural is of utmost importance for the midwife to have the skills and knowledge to refer patients and advise obstetricians in an optimal way
• Teach the main protocols for pregnant women carrying group B streptococcus during the third trimester of pregnancy, since it is the midwives who are responsible for collecting samples, administering medication and performing the relevant subsequent neonatal care

Module 9.  

• Learn everything related to preeclampsia, the new protocols for prediction, prevention, treatment and diagnosis.  
• Learn about the management of severe complications of preeclampsia, which are per se obstetric emergencies, so professionals must be equipped with the best and most updated knowledge
• Refresh knowledge on the management of diabetes, since midwives are the competent professionals to carry out an adequate follow-up during pregnancy, delivery and puerperium of patients and neonates of diabetic mothers
• Delve deeper into gynecological-oncological matters in pregnant women, as more and more patients suffer from these pathologies, and for whom it is essential to follow protocols based on the best evidence

Module 10.  

• Learn about infectious pathology in the puerperium, since it is the midwives who receive the woman in the puerperal visits, and whose early referral is essential for a successful outcome  
• Teach about breastfeeding problems, a subject that is almost exclusively the responsibility of midwives. A high percentage of pregnant women suffer mastitis and/or breast engorgement in the puerperium, so midwives must be properly trained to provide support and solutions to mothers in this difficult stage of life
• Delve into psychological care issues such as postpartum depression and puerperal psychosis. Postpartum depression affects 1 in 10 women and tends to be trivialized and underdiagnosed, which is why the midwife is the ideal person to carry out a correct screening, follow-up and referral if necessary, since they are the only professional who attend women in the postpartum period
• Learn about the causes of postpartum hemorrhage, since midwives are in charge of attending euthyroid deliveries and monitoring the immediate puerperium in all hospitalization units. Learn the appropriate treatment depending on the etiology of bleeding and its aftercare
• Get updated in both maternal and neonatal CPR, since midwives are in charge of the first neonatal assessment in most maternity wards, and their algorithms are updated from time to time to offer the best care based on scientific evidence

A path to achieve training and professional growth that will also propel you towards a greater level of competitiveness in the employment market”