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The easiest way to find a certified nurse midwife preceptor near you. Experienced CNM preceptors across the country. Sign up free, pay only after you’re matched.
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$0 until a preceptor sends you an offer. School approval guaranteed or your money back.
$1,995 flat rate for most preceptors, all-inclusive, with payment plans up to 24 months. No hidden fees, ever.
A nationwide network of certified nurse midwife preceptors, plus AI-based outreach for harder-to-fill rotations.
Multiple preceptors compete for you. You choose the best fit.
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Why Finding a Midwifery Preceptor Is So Hard
Birth-Attending Requirements
The AMCB requires a specific number of births attended during training. Your preceptor must actively manage labor and delivery, which dramatically narrows the pool of eligible CNMs.
Limited L&D Student Spots
Hospitals cap the number of midwifery students allowed on L&D units. It is a high-liability environment, and many facilities only take one or two students at a time. Spots fill months in advance.
Tiny Preceptor Pool
Fewer than 400 freestanding birth centers exist in the entire US. In rural areas, midwifery practices can be hours apart, and small program cohorts rarely have formal placement support.
That's exactly why we built Clinical Match Me. Instead of chasing preceptors, qualified preceptors come to you.
How Clinical Match Me Works for Midwifery Students
1. Sign Up Free
Create your account and submit a placement request with your midwifery specialty, preferred location, rotation dates, and clinical hour requirements. It takes just a few minutes.
2. Receive Preceptor Offers
Our system matches your request with CNM preceptors in your area. Interested preceptors review your profile and send you offers directly. Plus, our smart outreach contacts midwives outside the existing network on your behalf.
3. Start Your Rotation
Review your offers, communicate with preceptors, and choose the best fit. You only pay when you accept an offer. Then submit your preceptor for school approval and begin your clinical hours.
No credit card required. No obligation to pay.
Birth-Attending Hours in a Midwife Preceptorship
A midwife preceptorship centers on birth attendance. The AMCB standard requires documented birth-attending hours, which means you need a preceptor with active clinical privileges in labor and delivery, not just clinic hours. A nurse midwife preceptor should be CNM-credentialed and practice in a setting that accepts student midwives. Common placements are hospital L&D, freestanding birth centers, and integrated OB/midwifery practices. Home birth preceptors exist but are less common and often require additional school approval and a pre-rotation safety plan. Expect to log continuity-of-care visits alongside your deliveries.
Why Midwifery Students Choose Clinical Match Me
Smart Outreach Beyond Our Network
Our system doesn’t just search a fixed database. It automatically identifies and contacts CNMs in your target area who aren’t yet in our network. For a specialty where the preceptor pool is tiny, this active outreach makes a real difference.
Preceptors Who Actually Want to Teach
Our model is preceptor-initiated. CNM preceptors review your profile and send you offers because they’re genuinely interested in mentoring you. You’re not assigned to someone who’s just filling a slot. That matters especially in midwifery, where the clinical relationship is everything.
Zero Risk, Money-Back Guarantee
You don’t pay a cent until a CNM preceptor sends you an offer and you choose to accept. If your school doesn’t approve the preceptor for any reason, you get a full refund. No deposits. No hidden fees. No gamble.
Multiple Rotation Support
Midwifery programs often require separate preceptors for intrapartum, antepartum, postpartum, GYN, and newborn rotations. Submit multiple placement requests at once and let us work on all of them simultaneously. One account, multiple matches.
Nationwide Coverage, All 50 States
From rural birth centers to hospital-based CNMs in major cities, our network spans the entire country. We’ve been matching students with preceptors since 2014, and our reach keeps growing.
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What Students Are Saying
Meeting the AMCB Birth-Attending Requirement
Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) must meet the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB) eligibility requirements to sit for the certification exam. The birth-attending requirement is the most specific and most challenging to fulfill.
The AMCB birth-attending minimum requires candidates to have attended a specific number of births as the primary midwife during their clinical training. The exact number is set by your accredited midwifery program and typically ranges from 20 to 40 births across your intrapartum rotation. Programs accredited by the ACNM Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME) follow ACNM’s core competencies.
What counts as a birth attendance is specific. You must be present and actively managing labor and delivery from active phase through placental delivery. Observing from the hallway does not count. Your preceptor must delegate increasing management responsibility to you throughout the rotation, culminating in primary-role births where you lead the delivery with preceptor supervision.
Clinical settings that count include hospital L&D units (the most common training site, with continuous fetal monitoring, epidural availability, and operative interventions on standby), freestanding birth centers (independent facilities offering low-risk birth care with fewer interventions and more intermittent monitoring), and home birth practices (solo or group CNM practices attending planned home births, available if your program approves home birth experience and your state permits it).
Antepartum and postpartum hours also count toward total midwifery clinical hours but do not fulfill the birth-attending requirement specifically. Your clinical rotation typically splits between antepartum care (prenatal visits, prenatal diagnostics), intrapartum (active labor and delivery), postpartum (postpartum visits, lactation support), newborn care (newborn exams, newborn discharge), and well-woman GYN (routine women’s health, contraceptive counseling).
Program-specific requirements vary. Some ACME-accredited programs require 20 births, others require 40+. Some require a mix of hospital and out-of-hospital experience; others allow 100% hospital. Check your specific program handbook before planning your rotation schedule.
Clinical Match Me matches midwifery students to preceptors in clinical settings with documented birth volume. When you submit your rotation request, specify your program’s birth-attending minimum and your preferred setting mix. We track each preceptor’s typical monthly birth volume so you can realistically complete your requirement within the rotation window.
Frequently Asked Questions About CNM Preceptor Placements
Yes. Intrapartum placements are the most competitive rotations in midwifery education, and they’re one of the most common requests we handle. Our system matches you with CNMs who actively attend births in hospitals, birth centers, or home birth practices. Our smart outreach also contacts birth-attending midwives outside our existing network to expand your options.
It depends on your program. Many midwifery programs require separate preceptors for antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, well-woman/GYN, and newborn care. Some CNMs cover multiple areas in their practice. You can submit a separate placement request for each rotation, and we’ll work on all of them at the same time. There’s no extra charge per request.
Signing up is completely free. You don’t pay anything until a CNM preceptor sends you an offer and you decide to accept it. The standard flat rate is $1,995 for up to 250 clinical hours, and that price is all-inclusive. No service fees, no rush fees, no surprise charges. Payment plans are available up to 24 months, and every placement comes with a money-back guarantee.
You’re covered by our money-back guarantee. If your school rejects the preceptor for any reason whatsoever, you’ll get a full refund or a replacement preceptor at no extra cost. We know midwifery programs can have very specific site requirements, and we don’t want you to carry that risk.
Yes. Our network includes CNMs practicing in freestanding birth centers, hospital-based birth centers, hospital L&D units, and home birth practices. When you submit your placement request, you can specify your preferred practice setting. We also have preceptors in states with full practice authority for midwives as well as states requiring collaborative agreements, so we can match you regardless of your state’s practice environment.
Our midwife preceptors practice in OB/GYN offices, birthing centers, hospital labor and delivery units, midwifery practices, women’s health clinics, prenatal care clinics, and community health centers. Most CNM programs require clinical experience in antepartum care, intrapartum (labor and delivery) care, postpartum care, newborn care, and gynecologic/well-woman care. We match you with preceptors who can provide the specific clinical experiences your program requires.
Yes. We verify preceptor credentials before matching, and we handle the paperwork between you, your preceptor, and your school. If your school rejects the preceptor for any reason, you get a full refund through our Money-Back Guarantee. Over 10,000 students have used our service, and school approval rates are extremely high because we ensure preceptors meet standard credentialing requirements before they ever send you an offer.
Most CNM programs require a minimum of 720 clinical hours along with specific numbers of births attended (typically 20-40 as primary birth attendant). Clinical hours are typically split across antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, and well-woman/gynecologic care rotations. When you submit a Placement Request, specify your exact requirements including birth numbers needed, and we’ll match you with preceptors who have sufficient delivery volume. Our flat-rate pricing covers rotations up to 250 hours per placement.
As early as possible, and ideally 3-4 months before your rotation. Midwifery clinical sites are among the most competitive in nursing because you need preceptors with adequate birth volume, and birthing centers and hospital L&D units have limited student capacity. Our smart outreach system helps by recruiting midwifery practices that aren’t listed on any placement service. Since registration is free and there’s no obligation to pay until you accept an offer, starting your search early gives you the best chance at securing a high-volume site.
Free registration. No payment until you accept an offer.
