The program is underpinned by an innovative, inquiry-based learning curriculum model which has been informed in international best practice by industry experts and responds to current national and global population health challenges.

In the first two years of the program, lectures and inquiry-based learning are incorporated with clinical experiences in selected partner teaching hospitals and health districts.

In the final year of the program, you will undertake extensive preceptored clinical placement providing you with exposure to an area of specialty midwifery practice and the opportunity to consolidate and refine your skills in order to facilitate a smooth transition to graduate practice.

You will undertake supervised clinical practice in a range of clinical settings that includes hospitals and a variety of health care organisations. You will have the opportunity during your placements to apply your theoretical knowledge acquired through coursework to practice and develop your clinical skills in real life setting.

This includes 'continuity of care' experiences that are completed over the duration of the program; this involves accompanying a woman through pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. You may need to attend Continuity of Care experiences outside regular study and placement times.

You will commence your clinical placements in the first year of the program and complete enough hours to gain the midwifery practice experiences needed for registration as a midwife.

Further information about placement providers can be found here.

Our graduates work in a variety of maternity and neonatal settings including:

• public, private or community healthcare
• clinical practice in metropolitan, regional, rural or remote settings in both Australia and overseas
• academia/clinical teaching
• health research
• health service management
• aid organisations.