Midwifery

UCAS code: B721

Here's what University of Plymouth says about its Midwifery course.

Do you want to support women throughout their maternity journey, and learn how to deliver safe, effective, respectful, kind and compassionate midwifery care? This course equips you with the skills, knowledge and professional insight needed to become a registered midwife. Whether it's helping women during pregnancy and birth, or giving support to new mothers, you learn through doing, building your confidence as you go. Graduate ready to excel as a fully rounded healthcare professional.

• Become a 'Registered Midwife' with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as soon as you successfully complete the course.

• Spend 50% of your time learning through doing, in a range of real placements, in partnership with real clients.

• Learn how to work as part of a multi-professional team.

• Build confidence through clinical skills and theory sessions, priming you to be at your best when working directly with real clients.

• Train and practice your professional healthcare skills in an inspiring purpose-built environment, InterCity Place.

• Extend your skills in IT, numeracy and literacy to support your clinical and professional midwifery practice.

• Learn about the psychological and social impacts of having a baby and how to effectively communicate with and support your clients.

• Develop a critical approach to research, enabling you to provide evidence-based care.

• Develop the professional knowledge, skills and attributes to enable you to work as an autonomous practitioner fit for the future.

• Support women and families through a continuity of carer approach.

In your first year, lay the foundations for your career as a midwife, from developing clinical skills and professional attitudes to learning about human reproductive biology. Explore the wider determinants of health and well being. Learn about pharmacology and the importance of safe medicine management. Develop your reflective practice, literature searching, essay writing and exam technique. Before Christmas, undertake the first of your supervised clinical placements in maternity settings.

Building on Year 1 biology studies, in your second year you’ll learn more about preconception, conception and childbearing. Explore conditions particular to pregnancy and birth including when women and families have additional needs. Learn how to undertake a full systematic physical examination of the newborn infant and work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team. Develop your ability to identify and apply evidence based midwifery practice. Put your improved clinical and theoretical skills into practice on placement, gaining further experience of midwifery settings.

In your final year, you’ll further develop clinical skills for planning, assessing, implementing and evaluating pregnancy and childbirth care. Working with midwives within a continuity of carer model, you’ll see what it takes to be an effective practising midwife. You’ll explore complexities in midwifery care, developing the ability to support women and families in a variety of situations. Using what you’ve learnt on the course, you’ll identify and undertake an extended project. Prepare for your future as Registered Midwife in your final clinical placements.

The modules shown for this course or programme are those being studied by current students, or expected new modules. Modules are subject to change depending on year of entry and up to date information can be found on our website

For up to date details, please refer to our website or contact the institution directly.