Midwifery

Our BSc Midwifery course is designed to empower you to become a highly competent midwife, capable of providing exceptional care. You'll learn to recognise and respond effectively to complex situations, ensuring the best possible outcomes for women and newborns.

Our curriculum prioritises the development of crucial skills such as resilience, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and problem-solving. We emphasise evidence-based knowledge, ensuring your practice is grounded in the latest research. We embed authentic assessment throughout the degree, bridging the gap between theory and practice. You'll demonstrate your knowledge through real-life and practice-based scenarios, enhancing your practical skills. This approach, combined with diverse teaching methods such as lectures, tutorials, case-based learning, and active learning, fosters deep learning and critical thinking, catering to varied learning styles. We proactively ensure that you gain valuable practical experience in our state-of-the-art simulation suites, allowing you to build confidence in a safe and controlled environment.

You will also benefit from personalised attention and a supportive learning environment with our small class sizes. We are committed to your personal and academic success. You'll receive extensive holistic support, allowing for proactive, personalised academic and practice-based assistance from both the midwifery and wider University teams. Alongside this, the Midwifery team offers dedicated pastoral support to ensure you thrive throughout your studies. You'll be supported by an experienced team of registered midwives, each bringing diverse clinical specialisations to your learning experience, recognised for their dedication and excellence, and nominated for the 1839 awards.

By choosing the University of Chester's BSc Midwifery course, you'll embark on a rewarding journey to become a compassionate, skilled, and highly sought-after midwife.

Nursing and midwifery courses require clinical placements and strict safeguarding, so students must be at least 18 at the course start to meet professional standards and fully take part in all required activities.

Course Modules

For the latest example of curriculum availability on this course, please refer to the University of Chester's Website.

Our course and modules are designed to support active learning using authentic assessments that mirror real life and reflect complex situations within practice. This will strengthen your knowledge and understanding and provides cohesive links between the modules across each of the years and facilitates progression. In line with principles of inclusivity and student-centred approaches, assessments are varied across the three years of the course. Summative assessments consist of:

Care Plans
Reflections
Essays
Podcast
Poster Presentations
Infographics
Portfolio
Narrative Literature Review
Written Exam / Online Exam
Midwifery Ongoing Record of Achievement [MORA].

Formative assessment is an important feature of the Midwifery course having a fundamental role in your learning journey, achievement and progression. All assessment meets the criteria set out by the NMC.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Nursing and Midwifery Council