Enhanced Professional Midwifery Practice, MSc / PGDip / PGCert
Swansea UniversitySingleton Park Campus, United Kingdom
Course overview
Enhance your midwifery knowledge, clinical reasoning, and decision-making skills with our work-based Master’s degree in Enhanced Professional Midwifery Practice. This programme is for qualified, registered and employed midwives. The course is a highly flexible and modular programme led by your learning and professional development objectives as both a student and a busy midwife.
You will cover key policy and practice related topics and refine your critical research and analytical skills in relation to midwifery. With the support of a personal tutor you will also develop professional reflective practice techniques. This work-based, modular postgraduate programme is delivered entirely at Level 7.
Designed for part-time study, it offers flexibility for students to take up to 60 credits per year, with completion possible in a minimum of 3 years and a maximum of 5 years.
Key highlights
- Work-based programme designed for qualified, registered and employed midwives
- Flexible modular structure led by your professional development objectives
- Develops clinical reasoning and decision-making skills in midwifery
- Covers key policy and practice topics in midwifery
- Builds critical research and analytical skills applied to midwifery
- Personal tutor support to develop professional reflective practice
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:2 — 2:2.
Scholarships
Chevening Scholarships
International Postgraduate Alumni Bursaries
First Class - £5,000 per year; Second Class, First division - £3,000 per year; Second Class, Second division - £1,000 per year; Taught Masters to Research Degree - £3,000 per year subject to satisfactory progress.
Swansea University International Postgraduate Research Excellence Scholarship (SUIPRES)
The SUIPRES Scholarship covers the difference between the International and the Home tuition fee rate for the duration of the PhD/Professional Doctorate programme.
Careers this course leads to
- Senior Midwife
- Midwifery Team Leader
- Specialist Midwife
- Consultant Midwife
- Midwifery Lecturer
- Midwifery Researcher
Cost of study
UK/Home: £3,250 per year
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Swansea University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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