Education Program

Class 47 for EP II is closed: April 5–12, 2025

Applications for Class 48 (2025-2026) will be accepted starting January 1, 2025
EPI Oct 10-18, 2025  |  EPII April 9-18, 2026

Certificate Programs for the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System: Practitioners, Instructors, Educators, Supervisors, Medical Consultants, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Nurse Midwives, and Pharmacists. Individuals interested in being a part of the pro-life solution to strengthen the world around them by considering one of the Saint Paul VI Institute’s Education programs. This is extraordinarily satisfying work and completely consistent with Catholic teaching. Refresher Programs are available.

The Saint Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction is the leading education and research center in the United States in the area of the natural regulation of human fertility and the development of morally and professionally acceptable reproductive health services. Dedicated to Saint Paul VI’s challenge to physicians and health care professionals and to men of science, it is a living memorial to the challenges placed before us by Saint Paul VI in his encyclical letter Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life).

The CREIGHTON MODEL FertilityCare System and the women’s health science of NaProTECHNOLOGY have been developed through a research and education effort coordinated and directed by Thomas W, Hilgers, MD, director of Saint Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction and clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Creighton University Medical Center.

The CREIGHTON MODEL FertilityCare System provides comprehensive, professional services through individualized follow-up, standardized teaching tools and ongoing research. The Creighton Model is a medically standardized modification of the Billings Ovulation Method. It is the only education program in this field that meets the education demands of a newly emerging allied health profession and provides a case management approach to teaching.

• Thomas W. Hilgers, MD, SRS, CFCMC — Dr. Hilgers is Senior Medical Consultant in obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive medicine and surgery at the Saint Paul VI Institute and Co-Developer of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System and Developer of NaProTechnology.
• Susan Hilgers, CFCE — Co-Developer of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System
• K. Diane Daly, RN, CFCE — Co-Developer of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System

Additional faculty and speakers will be present.