Midwives are the lead professional for all healthy women with straightforward pregnancies. For women with complex pregnancies they work as the key coordinator of care within the multidisciplinary team, liaising closely with obstetricians, general practitioners, health visitors/public health practitioners and maternity support workers/maternity care assistants. Midwives have an increasingly greater public health role aiming to meet the challenges of reducing inequalities and improving maternal and family health midwifery education, whilst rooted in normality prepares midwives to care for all women including those with complex medical, obstetric and social needs. It prepares and develops midwives to be skilled and safe, empathic and trustworthy, developing skills of autonomy and accountability within multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams. **From September 2020, all midwifery degree students will receive at least £5,000 a year with up to £3,000 additional funding available. Further information, including eligible health professional courses, can be found here.** **Due to the high demand for this course, once the course is full, offers will be made for the next available cohort.** Key features • The course is split between theoretical teaching and practical placements, giving you the chance to develop your skills in maternity hospitals, midwifery-led units and community areas, with support from practicing midwives. • You will undertake a case holding placement in your final year and will take the lead in providing care for families, supporting them during the antenatal period, labour and in the postnatal period. • We use a mixture of face to face interactive teaching methods including simulation in our clinical skills suites and case-based learning workshops. • In addition to our dedicated midwifery clinical skills lab, we have a brand new state-of-the-art simulation suite giving students hands-on patient care and ward experience. This purpose-built space features three large multi-purpose teaching rooms, three cubicles for small scale teaching and demonstrations, a counselling room and student breakout spaces. • Gain international experience related to your studies through our DMU Global programme*, which has enabled students to understand the healthcare provision in Amsterdam, witness midwifery care in Peru and teach children about health-hygiene in India. • You will study a range of modules including the principles of universal midwifery care, biological sciences of childbearing, appreciating research in midwifery practice and the newborn infant, which includes the NIPE qualification. * Benefit from two intakes per academic year, allowing you to start your studies in September 2022 or January 2023.* * DMU’s careers and employability service, known as DMU Works, was awarded the Best University Careers/Employability Service at the National Undergraduate Employability (NUE) Awards in February 2021. We understand university is a huge investment, and our careers commitment to you is not simply to help you secure a job, but to equip you with the skills to thrive, adapt and innovate in our ever-changing world.*

YEAR ONE: Caring and Compassion; Communication and Contextual issues for Childbearing; Scientific Underpinnings of Midwifery Care. YEAR TWO: Evidence-Based Holistic Midwifery; Complexity in Childbearing; Critical Skills for Midwifery Practice. YEAR THREE: Dissertation; Continuity and Midwifery Practice; Midwife as Leader.

• A wide variety of teaching and learning methods are used, putting you at the centre of learning. This includes enquiry based learning which encourages thinking and application of theory to practice. You maintain an electronic professional portfolio throughout the course, which assists with your continuous assessment in practice. Theory is assessed by exams, assignments and presentations throughout. You must attend all theoretical and practice-based teaching. The theoretical teaching is normally 30 hours per week but varies as the course progresses with more self-directed learning and additional reading. Clinical practice placements are currently based on a 37.5 hour week but because of the shift patterns allocated they may be more one week and less the next.

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26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: B720

Institution code: D26

Campus Name: Leicester Campus

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

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Student satisfaction : 75%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 65%

Go onto work and study: 85%

England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1

For students registering in the 2022/23 academic year, the fees for this programme are yet to be confirmed. Please note that fees are subject to an annual review. Any increase in fees for Home students would be based upon a review of our provision and in line with the fee cap set by the government. For EU and Overseas students such reviews will be based on a market assessment and communicated to students at least 6-months before any programme commencing. Please visit the tuition fees pages of our website for further information: dmu.ac.uk/funding.

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