Year One: Midwifery Degree * Normal midwifery: This will focus on normality and fundamental aspects of midwifery practice. It will introduce basic care and midwifery practice skills both in the clinical setting and within the clinical skills laboratory. * Life Sciences in Midwifery: The topics covered will focus on some nursing but mainly on midwifery and related life sciences. * Professional Practice & Personal Development in Midwifery: The module will introduce aspects of professional practice and professionalism. * Normality in Clinical Practice: This module is a clinically based module enabling the development of the basic care and skills in practice. Year Two: Midwifery Degree * Midwifery Art & Science: Developing the student’s expertise in the management of normal midwifery situations, recognising the abnormal and seeking appropriate interventions. * Complications and emergencies: Preparing the student for deviations from normal within midwifery care. Antenatal, labour, postnatal and neonatal aspects will be covered. * Inter-professional working in Midwifery: This will introduce the need for multi-professional working and collaboration and develop further on communication skills, including counselling. * Complications in Clinical Practice: This module is a clinically based module enabling further development of midwifery care and more advanced skills in practice. Year Three: Midwifery Degree * Midwifery Practitioner: This looks at issues of national and international midwifery practice and encourage students to link theory to practice in a firm reality based environment. * Specialist Midwifery Skills: This will revisit emergency skills and develop confidence in the clinical skills needed to manage daily midwifery practice and emergency situations. * Public Health in Midwifery: This module will build on aspects of professional development whilst providing the legal and ethical frameworks which underpin clinical practice. * Competence in Clinical Practice: This module is a clinically based module enabling the development of confidence and competence in midwifery. * Supervised Practice Period: Clinical competencies are assessed during this period and students cannot qualify without passing this final tripartite assessment, preparing students to take on the full role of a midwife from the point of registration.

There are opportunities within the BN/BM programmes to undertake elective placements in the UK or abroad. The cost of travel and accommodation for these will be borne by the student. Once qualified as a midwife, employment in Wales and the UK is dependent on application to one or more of your chosen local health board. Midwives have the opportunity to work in different healthcare settings and gain experience in all aspects of caring for mothers and babies. They can develop their midwifery career in many different ways: as a clinical specialist, a consultant midwife or in management as a head of midwifery services or supervisor of midwives at local authority level. Some midwives prefer to pursue an academic career in education and research. Midwives have developed innovative specialist roles in, for example, ultrasound, fetal medicine, intensive care neonatal units, public health, parenting education and many others. There are also opportunities for midwives to work in the European Union and the rest of the world.