The room was buzzing at the women’s health simulation lab at California State University, Fullerton. That’s because on this day, everyone got their own anatomic model of a pelvis and a baby head.

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One of California’s two programs for training nurse-midwives has stopped admitting students while it revamps its curriculum to offer only doctoral degrees, a move that’s drawn howls of protest from ...

Zoe Carrasco and Ariela Schnyer, recent graduates of a nurse-midwifery program at UCSF, study together for their exams in Oakland. (Paul Kuroda/For The Times) When Ariela Schnyer was choosing where to ...