Bachelor of Midwifery - 728402

Bachelor of Midwifery

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Health and Recreation

This program will prepare students for this challenging and rewarding career, playing a pivotal role in safely guiding expectant women and parents through pregnancy, birth and the weeks that follow. This program is delivered in sm […]

Full time

Course Fee

CSP/$5540 (1st year contribution)

Start Date

Feb 2025

The University of Queensland - St Lucia

Duration

3 years Full time

Offer Rounds

16 Jan 2025

Overview Admissions Criteria Student Profile Career Possibilities

Course outline

Midwives play a pivotal role in safely guiding expectant women and parents through pregnancy, birth, and the weeks that follow. The Bachelor of Midwifery (Honours) will prepare students for this challenging and rewarding career. Students will undertake extensive supervised practical experience throughout the program, and during their final year, they will extend their clinical knowledge to ensure they meet the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia accreditation standards. This program is delivered in small group-based clinical teaching sessions in simulated centres, and through workshops at UQ St Lucia. The program is also integrated with hospital placements. For more information, visit Bachelor of Midwifery at UQ.

Note

Placements in the Midwifery program are located at a number of placement providers and each semester, students will be allocated a placement within 1.5 hours of their residential address where possible. Placement hospitals include Mater hospitals, Metro North, Metro South, West Moreton Hospital and Health Service, and regional and rural health settings. For more information, visit nmsw.uq.edu.au/clinical-placements.

Other requirements

On application, applicants will be required to demonstrate their English language proficiency. On admission, the following requirements must be met: first aid certificate (including CPR); Blue Card; medical questionnaire; police check for criminal history; current status with respect to blood-borne transmissible viruses and tuberculosis (TB); and a schedule of immunisations. Details about these requirements are made available at the time of offer. For more information, visit Placements.

Admissions Criteria

For additional information about the admissions criteria for UQ and for this course, refer to UQ’s website.

Prerequisites

English, Literature, English and Literature Extension or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 and 4, C)

Additional entry requirements

To enrol in this program, applicants must have attended and satisfactorily completed at least 6 years of primary and secondary education taught and assessed solely in English. At least two years of this education must have been between grades 7 and 12. This education must have been completed in one of the following countries; Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America. If an applicant has not met these educational requirements, they are required to provide evidence of an acceptable English Language test. For more information see English Language Proficiency.

Recommended study

Biology, Chemistry or Physics (Units 3 and 4, C)

Minimum Selection thresholds (ATAR/Selection Rank) for semester/trimester/term 1, 2024

86.00

Minimum selection threshold explained.

ATAR/Selection Rank profile for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR/Selection Rank for semester/trimester/term 1, 2024

For more information about the ATAR/Selection Rank profile, please visit ATAR/Selection Rank profile explained.

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

97.80

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

99.80

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

91.15

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

93.15

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

84.30

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

86.30

Excluding: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made, excluding adjustment factors.
Including: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made including any adjustment factors that may have been applied.

Student Profile by Applicant background for semester/trimester/term 1, 2024

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Number of students

<5*

Percentage of all students

<5*

Number of students

Percentage of all students

42.5%

Number of students

Percentage of all students

0.0%

Recent secondary education admitted solely on the basis of ATAR/Rank Admitted where both ATAR/Rank and additional criteria were considered Admitted on the basis of other criteria only and ATAR/Rank was not a factor

Number of students

<5*

Percentage of all students

<5*

Number of students

Percentage of all students

0.0%

Number of students

Percentage of all students

0.0%

Number of students

<5*

Percentage of all students

<5*

All students

Number of students

Percentage of all students

50.0%

Notes

* “<5" – the number of students is less than 5

Career opportunities

Midwife in public or private health, maternity and neonatal care, teaching, research, rural and remote health, and aid organisations.

Membership

Australian College of Midwives.

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