BSM Course Load Calculator & Plans of Completion

Before you enroll in a program at NCM, you must turn in a plan of completion as part of your application process. Here is all of the information you will need to complete this process.

Approximate Amount of Work to be Completed Each Trimester (1 trimester = 4 months):
	2-Year Plan:	3-Year Plan:	5-Year Plan:
Number of Trimesters	6.0	9.0	15.0
ACADEMICS:
Academic Credits (80 for regular BSM, 85 for California BSM)	13 Credits / Trimester	9 Credits / Trimester	5 Credits / Trimester
CLINICALS:
10 Births as Primary Post Certification/Licensure	5 births a year	3 births a year plus 1	2 births a year

Making a Plan of Completion prior to or during your BSM program:

NEW: Helpful Graphic Plan of Completion for those who work better with visual manipulation. (If you use this tool, you will still have to transfer this to a Plan of Completion Form).

Fill out a Plan of Completion prior to enrolling and updated this at least once a year with your preceptor.

EXAMPLE WORKLOAD for a student who is planning to complete their program in 2 years.

The BSM program (for a non-alumni California student) includes 85 academic credits (or a total of approximately 5000 homework questions). Students who plan to complete in 2 years will need to complete at least 10 homework assignments from their courses each day, 5 days per week for the entire 2 years. This means that a student must be prepared to study between 13-26 hours per week to complete these.