| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-02-01 | - |
Program Overview
This 1.5-year part-time midwifery program combines core subjects with practical experience, including continuous placement and a continuity of midwifery care experience program. Students attend two compulsory residential schools and engage in networking and collaborative learning. Graduates work as midwives in various settings, including hospitals, birth centers, and rural and remote facilities.
Program Outline
Outline:
The program combines core subjects with practical experience unique to JCU in this 1.5-year part-time course. Undertake continuous placement in a facility of your choice in Australia. Engage in your own continuity of midwifery care experience program, requiring you to follow women through attendance at antenatal appointments, labor, birth, and the postnatal period throughout the course. Complete two compulsory five-day residential schools at JCU's Townsville campus, providing opportunities for networking and collaborative learning. Enhance your current qualifications and pursue your passion.
Careers:
JCU midwifery graduates work as midwives in various settings, including public and private hospitals, birth centers and clinics, midwifery group practice, aeromedical services and neonatal care, education and rural and remote facilities.
