MSc in Midwifery - Pre-Registration

Our MSc in Midwifery (pre-registration) is for graduates with a first degree, leading to registration at the master’s level.

You will have the opportunity to develop and refine your academic skills. This allows you to:

• critique and synthesise the best available evidence base which informs clinical midwifery
• identify areas to improve knowledge
• engage in undertaking research that aims to improve an aspect of care provision for women and their families during pregnancy, childbirth and beyond.

Our lecturers are experienced in their specialist practice areas. They maintain excellent practise links with those areas locally and across the region.

You should have a deep understanding of the importance of woman-centeredness. Combined with excellent interpersonal skills and leadership potential.

A master’s degree in midwifery will provide you with a strong basis for a future career in clinical work. Alongside research, education, management, leadership or consultancy.

Study modules

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Public Health in Midwifery 1
• Midwifery Practice 1: Core skills
• Midwifery Practice 2: The continuum of care
• Introduction to research and evidence
• Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives

Year 2

Compulsory modules

• Dissertation
• Women and babies with complex needs
• Public Health in Midwifery 2
• Midwifery Practice 3: Childbirth Emergencies
• Midwifery Practice 4: The Midwife as a Clinician
• A Midwifery Research Proposal

Year 3

Compulsory modules

• Midwifery Practice 5: Implementing case loading
• Midwifery practice 6: Towards autonomy
• Philosophy for Midwifery Practice
• Dissertation

Work placements

• Work placements
  Placements cover the whole of Oxfordshire and enable students to practise midwifery in a variety of settings. All students will work in the Women's Centre based at the John Radcliffe Hospital, part of the Oxford University Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust. Half of your placements will be in the community, which may include placement in one of three free-standing midwifery-led units. Please note that you will have to organise your own travel arrangements for clinical placements. You might be working in: hospital maternity wards and/or delivery suites within the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford; integrated midwifery-led units within the John Radcliffe Hospital and The Horton General Hospital, Banbury; health centres; free-standing midwifery-led units at Chipping Norton, Wantage and Wallingford; women's homes; children's centres.

Midwifery is an exciting and diverse career choice. As the main healthcare professionals for the pregnant mother and her family throughout the childbearing process, midwives play a fundamental role in providing care and advice during pregnancy and birth, and in the postnatal period. Midwives care for all women and their families during pregnancy, labour and the puerperium, liaising with other professionals as and when required, and are the lead professional for healthy women who experience a straightforward pregnancy.

All students graduating from our midwifery programs will be competent in the New Born Infant Physical Examinations (NIPE).

A master's degree in midwifery will provide a strong basis for a future career in research, education, management or consultancy. It is hoped that future graduates will influence midwifery practice in the UK and elsewhere.