Midwifery (Registered Midwife)

About this course

Midwifery is the profession concerned with supporting women and birthing people through pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period, and with the health and wellbeing of newborn babies. Midwives are autonomous practitioners who take responsibility for the care of healthy mothers and babies, and who work alongside obstetricians and other health professionals in the management of more complex situations. The role is clinically demanding, emotionally significant and ethically rich, requiring both rigorous scientific knowledge and exceptional interpersonal skill, compassion and the capacity to support people at transformative and sometimes highly pressured moments of their lives. At the University of Surrey, this three-year full-time programme prepares you to register as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. You will develop your knowledge of maternal physiology, fetal dev

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