The University of Gondar (UoG) is one of the first-generation Universities in Ethiopia located in Gondar city, which is approximately 727km apart from Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. It was the oldest school established as the “Public Health College and  Training Center” in 1954. It was also known as the “Gondar College of Medical Sciences” until 2003. Currently, the University is named as “University of Gondar” and become “center of excellence in research” in 2020. There are five campuses in the University and a number of colleges, institutes, schools, and departments. College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS) is one of the campuses comprising different institutes, schools, and departments of various medical and health sciences programs. Midwifery program is the one in the college that was began in 1954 as a post-basic training for nurses in Midwifery. The department of Midwifery in our University was established as an independent department in 1993 and become School of Midwifery in 2010. The Department of General Midwifery is one of the programs under the School of Midwifery.

There are post-basic diplomas, undergraduate regular, and postgraduate (MSc and PhD) level programs in the program. More than 60 academic staffs, 4 skill-lab technicians, around 3 secretaries, a cleaner, and messenger are currently working in the school. University of Gondar is the first institution that started post-basic BSc midwifery and regular BSc midwifery program in 1996 and 1997 EC respectively. As a Midwifery department is a practice oriented professional education and training, the students become competent through practice in demonstration room; facility (health Centre, hospitals) followed by professional practice/internship and community based training and team trainings in different community setups. Every year, 80 to 120 students graduated in undergraduate and 15 to 25 students graduated in postgraduate programs.

The school has three departments including department of General Midwifery, Clinical Midwifery, and Women and Family Health. Department of General Midwifery is one of the departments in the school mainly responsible for undergraduate regular midwifery students.

 Objective of the Program

The overall objective of undergraduate Midwifery program is to have competent midwifery professionals who are efficient practitioner, leader and researcher in all midwifery and reproductive health services at all levels of health care system.