If you are a Registered Midwife, the Master of Midwifery provides an opportunity for you to engage in education designed to enhance your qualities, capabilities and competencies to provide contemporary approaches to women’s health, maternity and infant care. The Master of Midwifery program supports Registered Midwives in developing the necessary skills for clinical leadership, research and advanced practice roles and provides opportunity for continuing professional development. The program places an emphasis on the social, psychological, emotion, spiritual and cultural factors that influence health and wellbeing during women’s childbearing years. The program is 1.5 years in length and may be studied on either a full-time or part-time basis.

The program also offers flexible learning opportunities and supports independent research project work in evaluating and translating evidence for midwifery practice. The program prepares graduates to work in increasingly diverse maternity care settings and leadership roles.

Admission requirements

Applicants must have:

• a Bachelor degree (AQF Level 7) in midwifery or nursing from a recognised tertiary education provider, or equivalent qualification, and
• be registered midwives, and
• hold a current practicing certificate

Applicants who are Registered Midwives in Australia with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) who do not have a Bachelor qualification may be considered for admission based on extensive industry experience (minimum 5 years) and will require approval by the Program Coordinator and Head of School.

The Master of Midwifery offers a limited number of Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP) as well as domestic fee paying places. Offers for both CSP and fee paying places will be made after the application due date for the program.

CSP will be allocated on the basis of your Grade Point Average in the degree used to meet admission requirements and/or your industry experience. Applicants falling below the demand-driven cut-off for a CSP may be offered a domestic fee paying place subject to capacity limitations.

Australian citizens, New Zealand citizens and permanent visa holders enrolled in a fee paying place will have the option of applying for a CSP in subsequent semesters if one becomes available. In these cases, the student’s current GPA in the Master of Midwifery will be used to assess eligibility for a CSP place using the same entry cut-off applied for new CPS entrants during that admission period.

Professional recognition

Upon completion of the Masters of Midwifery, graduates can work in a range of settings and roles, including: Public or private maternity and neonatal care settings; Rural and remote health settings; Academia/teaching; Research; Clinical management; Clinical leadership; Policy development and International development.