Master of Midwifery Practice

at University of Canberra

Breathe new life into your career with midwifery

If you are a Registered Nurse currently registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and wish to pursue a career in midwifery, this two-year full-time or part-time equivalent course will open up a whole world of exciting new opportunities for you. Through a combination of theory and clinical experience, you will receive broad exposure to the philosophy and midwifery practice of being ‘with woman’, using health promotion strategies and contemporary evidence-based practice within a primary health care approach.  

You will experience a wide variety of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunities, including a minimum of 1046 practice hours across the two years. You will provide continuity of midwife care to 12 women across their journey through pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period. From a theoretical perspective, you will learn midwifery-specific language, and become immersed in midwifery philosophy, social and ethical principles, and the law, developing significant research abilities, clinical reasoning, and critical thinking skills which will be applied to working with women and their families. You will graduate as a competent midwife, prepared to practice within the full scope of midwifery.

Study a Master of Midwifery Practice at UC and you will:

• participate in WIL placements, including rostered and on-call shifts

• learn to contribute to the development of services, policies, and research into maternity care now and as a future leader

• work at individual, family and community levels to facilitate all women’s rights to, and responsibilities in, active participation in their maternity care

• contribute to new understandings of midwifery and other work by participating in research activities

• experience a variety of workplace settings, including birth centres, regional and rural maternity units, and tertiary hospitals.

Work Integrated Learning

With a minimum of 1046 practice hours across the two years of this course, UC invests significantly in the WIL route compared with other universities. From the moment you begin your studies, you will engage in clinical practice experience across a range of Canberra maternity settings, such as Calvary Public Hospital, Centenary Hospital for Women and Children, and Queanbeyan District Hospital. You will support 12 women in continuity relationships during the course and will graduate job-ready, with an in-demand qualification from an innovative university.

As part of the UC midwifery student community, you will be encouraged to join the University of Canberra Midwifery Society, which has student engagement as a primary focus.