Programme aims and learning outcomes

Statement of Purpose: BMid Midwifery

BMid (Hons) Midwifery  at the University of York has been specifically designed to equip you to become a skilled, knowledgeable and compassionate midwife, able to provide excellent care for women, newborn infants and families. The programme has learning through research and enquiry at its centre, and is focused on contemporary midwifery and maternity care. Our curriculum also features strong and cohesive development of professional self, enabling you to become a confident, effective and future focused midwife.

The programme provides an equal balance of theory and practice learning. The university works in well-established partnerships with our valued NHS Trusts to provide practice learning, supervision and assessment in hospital, midwifery led unit and community settings, including continuity of care and carer models. You will develop comprehensive interpersonal skills to build and sustain relationships, working in partnership with women and families. You will also work effectively within interdisciplinary and multi-agency care teams.

Through varied and stimulating academic and practice learning modules you will initially gain the knowledge, skills and experience to provide safe, universal midwifery care. As you progress, your learning and practice will expand and deepen, enabling you to provide care which anticipates, prevents and responds to additional care needs and complications. You will be fully equipped to identify, critically analyse, interpret and use the best available evidence and data to inform your professional learning and actions.

Our smaller cohort size and varied, interactive teaching, learning and assessment methods promote student engagement and encourage peer support. Throughout your degree you will also learn in our extensive clinical simulation unit, practising and demonstrating increasingly complex clinical skills. Another distinctive programme element is an elective placement at the end of Stage 2, which will give you the opportunity to gain diverse midwifery experience nationally and/or internationally, recognising midwifery as part of a global profession. Our undergraduate midwifery education is also accredited by the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI), fully achieving standards which facilitate effective parent-baby relationships and choices regarding infant feeding.

On conclusion of your undergraduate studies, you will have developed contemporary knowledge, critical understanding and effective skills to work across the continuum of midwifery and hold a midwifery caseload. You will provide safe, respectful, empowering and equitable care, irrespective of social context and setting. The BMid (Hons) Midwifery is approved by the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC), and on successful completion you will be able to apply to practise as an NMC registered midwife.

Programme learning outcomes: BMid (Hons) Midwifery

1. 1. 1. Provide universal, safe, respectful, empowering and equitable midwifery care to women, their families and newborn infants.

      2. Lead a universal approach to midwifery care, supporting individualised physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual safety.

      3. Effectively communicate and build relationships, working in partnership with service users and interdisciplinary and multi-agency teams.

      4. Assess, plan, provide and evaluate safe and effective continuity of care and carer, being responsive to individual needs.

      5. Anticipate, prevent and respond to complications and additional care needs as they arise within individual maternity journeys.

      6. Lead and role model excellence via effective and collegial working with interdisciplinary and multiagency teams across a range of midwifery and maternity settings

      7. Practice as an accountable, autonomous, skilled, knowledgeable and compassionate midwife, providing care based on the best available evidence.

      8. Recognise the importance of taking personal responsibility for ongoing professional development and learning, and promote continuous improvement in midwifery practice and maternity care.
         
         

Statement of Purpose: MMid Midwifery

The MMid Midwifery at the University of York is a unique programme, designed to accelerate your career and enable you to positively impact midwifery and maternity care. You will become a skilled, knowledgeable and compassionate midwife, providing comprehensive care for women, newborn infants and families. Your practice will be characterised by advanced scholarship, critical thinking skills and your quest for excellence. You will display an autonomous professional identity, underpinned by comprehensive interpersonal skills and fluency in building and sustaining relationships with women, families and colleagues in interdisciplinary and multi-agency care teams. 

This fully integrated masters level programme provides an equal balance of theory and practice learning across each year. Well established partnerships with our valued NHS Trusts will facilitate practice learning, supervision and assessment throughout your programme. Placements encompass hospital, midwifery led unit and community settings, and include continuity of care and carer models and caseload holding. Your practice will be informed by learning in our extensive clinical simulation unit, as you develop and demonstrate increasingly complex clinical skills.  Two clinical electives will further strengthen your practice learning; a second year national and/or international opportunity which recognises midwifery as part of a global profession, and a fourth year UK based placement which advances your interests and engagement in advanced midwifery leadership. 

Learning through research and enquiry is at the heart of the programme, and you will seamlessly integrate theory and practice through a range of stimulating academic and clinical modules. Interactive teaching, learning and assessment methods are used throughout, engaging and challenging you as a unique learner.  You will initially gain the knowledge, skills and experience to provide safe, universal midwifery care. As you progress, your learning and practice will expand and deepen, enabling you to provide care which anticipates, prevents and responds to additional care needs and complications. In your third year you will be fully equipped to identify, critically analyse, interpret and use the best available evidence and data to inform your professional learning and actions. You will have developed contemporary knowledge, critical understanding and effective skills to work across the continuum of midwifery and hold a midwifery caseload, providing safe, respectful, empowering and equitable care, irrespective of social context and setting. Learning in your final masters year will occur in a smaller cohort, exploring content at the forefront of the midwifery discipline which will enable you to demonstrate fluent masters level clinical practice. You will critically explore contemporary midwifery practice and advanced midwifery leadership, and lead a  service improvement project.

The University of York’s pre-registration midwifery education is fully accredited by the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI), and you will achieve these exacting standards to facilitate effective parent-baby relationships and choices regarding infant feeding. 

The MMid Midwifery programme will engage, inspire, and challenge you. As an approved Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) programme, on successful completion you will be able to apply to practise as an NMC registered midwife, embarking on your career in the challenging but highly rewarding midwifery profession.

Programme learning outcomes: MMid Midwifery

1. 1. 1. Advance and critique safe, respectful, empowering and equitable midwifery care for women, their families and newborn infants, using knowledge at the forefront of your discipline to meet universal and additional needs.

      2. Demonstrate self-direction when leading universal and additional care, supporting individualised physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual safety. 

      3. Exercise initiative when providing safe and effective universal and additional care which promotes continuity of care and carer.

      4. Respond to complex issues and situations in midwifery care systematically and creatively, making sound judgments where good quality evidence may be lacking. 

      5. Demonstrate mastery as an accountable, autonomous, skilled, knowledgeable and compassionate midwife.

      6. Role model excellence and vision when communicating with others, including professional peers and specialist/non specialist audiences.

      7. Excel in leadership, acting as a confident role model when building and sustaining relationships with women and families, and interdisciplinary/multiagency teams.

      8. Demonstrate originality and independent scholarship when undertaking professional development, to promote continuous improvement in midwifery practice and maternity care.