Midwifery

Overview

Prepare for a rewarding career as a professional midwife with UWS’s BSc Midwifery programme.

This programme will give you the knowledge, skills, practical experience and confidence to become a professional midwife. As teaching on this programme is 50% work-based learning, you’ll be able to put the theory you learn in the classroom into practice in real-life clinical environments.

This innovative and contemporary Midwifery programme offers you the chance to be part of this dynamic workforce as an accountable and lead practitioner working with and supporting women throughout their pregnancy and childbirth experience.

Programme highlights

• Upon graduation, you’ll achieve registration as a Registered Midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• This programme carries UNICEF’s UK Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation for ensuring midwifery students are equipped with the knowledge and skills to advise and support breastfeeding mothers.
• UWS’s Lanarkshire Campus is equipped with state-of-the-art midwifery skills and simulation facilities, including a birthing room with a maternal simulator.

Programme details

Work-based learning makes up 50% of the BSc Midwifery programme and you’ll spend time on placement with local healthcare partners:

• NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
• NHS Highland
• NHS Lanarkshire
• NHS Dumfries & Galloway
• NHS Golden Jubilee

Careers

This programme will prepare you for a successful career in Midwifery. Most graduates use their registration to become professional midwives or to move into wider fields of public, sexual and family health.

Some graduates choose further study, leading to a postgraduate certificate, diploma or MSc in a healthcare-related subject.

Course Modules

In Year 1 you will receive a broad introduction to midwifery, learn about health and public health concepts, transition to parenthood and the role of the professional midwife. You will develop knowledge and clinical practice through modules which include anatomy and physiology, professional midwifery and essential midwifery practice in addition to clinical placements across a range of maternity services.

In Year 2 you will study complex midwifery and develop knowledge and understanding related to medical, obstetric and social factors which influence midwifery care. You will also study newborn care and the newborn infant physical examination . Modules include complex midwifery, complex care in practice and perinatal mental health. Practice placements include women’s health and neonatal areas.

In Year 3 you will continue to develop your midwifery knowledge, decision-making and practical skills. You will also develop and demonstrate the professional standards required for registration as a Registered Midwife. You will study modules including: preparation for registered practice, global midwifery and meeting family and lifestyle needs. As well as spending time on placement you will undertake an independent research project on a related topic of your choice.

https://psmd.uws.ac.uk/UWS/Programme-Specifications/Undergraduate/Health-and-Life-Sciences/BSc Midwifery_25_26.pdf

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, practical workshops using simulation in our skills laboratories.

There will also be group work, literature reports and research projects in order to ensure our degrees provide a strong set of additional skills, such as presentational and communicative skills.

Our Midwifery degree uses a variety of assessment methods. The below list provides a guide to the types of assessment methods you can expect:

// Written and online class tests // Oral presentations // Written reports // Coursework // Academic posters // Practical examinations (OSCEs)

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

• Nursing and Midwifery Council