Midwifery BSc (Hons)

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Overview

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UCAS code: B741 120 UCAS points

Study Midwifery at UEL

What makes this course different

Benefit from midwifery student learning

We provide students with a variety of interactive learning opportunities. This enables you to achieve the NMC standards for pre-registration midwifery education, and midwifery apprenticeship.

Cutting edge simulation facilities

Take advantage of the cutting-edge midwifery simulation facilities during your course.

Leading practitioners

Teaching staff with longstanding clinically based experience as midwives.

Course modules

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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Your future career

We offer dedicated career support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career in midwifery and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting-edge technologies and facilities.

Industry links

Central to the midwifery course are placements with local healthcare providers who work collaboratively with the University in the delivery of the midwifery course.

Our trust providers are Royal London Hospital, Whipps Cross Hospital, Newham Hospital, Queen’s Hospital, Homerton University Hospital and North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.

Graduate employers

Close links with our healthcare partners ensure future employment for learners who complete their midwifery course and are registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Upon successfully completing the midwifery programme, our graduates have the opportunity to work in our NHS trusts, within research and education.

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated career support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting-edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

This digital platform provides you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you've mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top:

  • Work-based projects
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations
  • Support in starting a new business
  • London on our doorstep

How you'll learn

When not attending timetabled lectures or workshops, you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study. This will typically involve skills development through online study, reading journal articles and books, working on individual and group projects and preparing coursework assignments and presentations. Your independent learning is supported by a range of excellent facilities including online resources, specialist facilities, such as game labs, the library, the full Microsoft Office software, including MS Teams, and Moodle: our Virtual Learning Environment.

Guided independent study

When not attending timetabled lectures you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study.

Academic support

Our academic support team provides help in a range of areas - including learning and disability support. Support will also include personal tutorials and feedback.

Dedicated personal tutor

When you arrive, we'll introduce you to your personal tutor. This is the member of staff who will support you throughout the programme.

Workload

The programme's total hours are 4600 hours which comprises 2300 hours of theory and 2300 hours of clinical practice over the 3 years. All missed time in clinical practice and theory must be made up.

The midwifery programme requires 100% attendance for successful completion.

Your timetable

Your individualised timetable is normally available to students within 48 hours of enrolment. Whilst we make every effort to ensure timetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day of the week between 9.00am and 4.00pm. For undergraduate students, Wednesday afternoons are normally reserved for sports and cultural activities, but there may be occasions when this is not possible. Timetables for part-time students will depend on the modules selected.

Class sizes

This course has a typical class size of 30 students.

How you'll be assessed

Coursework will include presentations, practical exams, workbooks and research-based assignments. The approximate percentages for this course are:

Campus and facilities

Water Lane, Stratford

Who teaches this course

This course is delivered by the School of Health, Sport and Bioscience.

The teaching team includes qualified academics, practitioners and industry experts as guest speakers. Full details of the academics will be provided in the student handbook and module guides.

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Statistics for BSc (Hons) Midwifery Degree, Full Time

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