It includes three residential periods at the University of Pennsylvania, at three month intervals, each of one week duration. A minimum of a master's degree in a health field. A commitment to the teaching role. Guest faculty include nurse-midwifery and nurse practitioner clinicians and educators. Enrollment Admission to the program is offered to one class per year beginning in September.
Enrollment is offered for credit and for contact hours.
Each program offers a Post-Masters Certificate in Teaching upon completion of all requirements. Admission to the program for academic credit, if not currently a student at Penn, is by admission to Penn as a Special Student. Cost is at the established Penn course unit cost. The C.P.D. is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. The Post-Masters Teaching Certificate is awarded by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.