Bachelor of Midwifery (HLB001.2)
Bachelor of Midwifery (HLB001.2)
Make a difference to the lives of women and their families with UC’s innovative Bachelor of Midwifery. Upon completion of this three-year full-time or five-year part-time degree, you’ll play a vital role in building strong communities as a creative and socially valuable midwife. The degree accepts a small cohort of…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Make a difference to the lives of women and their families with UC’s innovative Bachelor of Midwifery. Upon completion of this three-year full-time or five-year part-time degree, you’ll play a vital role in building strong communities as a creative and socially valuable midwife.
The degree accepts a small cohort of students each year, which allows for a highly flexible and personalised learning experience, giving you the opportunity to develop a very special bond with your fellow midwifery students.
The Bachelor of Midwifery offers Work Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunities in a variety of practice areas and starts early in your first year of full-time study. Over the course of your degree, you’ll undertake a total of 1310 hours of clinical placements, including the provision of woman-centred care to 22 women during their journey through pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period. The course has an extremely high graduate employment rate, and feedback from industry is that it produces ‘sensational’ midwives.
Study a Bachelor of Midwifery at UC and you will:
work with women in pregnancy, labour, birth and early parenting using a primary health framework
participate in WIL placements, including rostered and on call shifts tending to women in labour and birth
learn to contribute to the development of services, policies and research into maternity care now and as a future leader
work at individual, family and community levels to facilitate all women’s rights to, and responsibilities in, active participation in their maternity care
contribute to new understandings of midwifery and other work by participating in research activities
experience a variety of workplace settings, including birth centres, regional and rural maternity units, and tertiary hospitals.
Career opportunities
Upon completion of the Bachelor of Midwifery, you’ll be eligible to register as a midwife in Australia across a variety of settings, including rural and remote areas, hospitals, birth centres, communities and in women’s homes.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Dynamic and vibrant, the University of Canberra (UC) is based in Canberra, the Australian capital. UC is a university for the professions, dedicated to providing immersive student experiences focused on employability outcomes. It is number one in the ACT for graduate employment and salaries for three years in a row (Good Universities Guide 2019-21), in the top one per cent of universities worldwide (The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021) and one of the fastest rising in the world (QS 2021). Its location and its regional connections shape the university’s purpose.
