• Our program is led by a team of academics and clinicians with diverse educational and skill backgrounds. Many of our teaching staff are currently registered, practicing midwives.
• We enjoy partnerships with organisations such as Flinders Medical Centre, the Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Ashford Hospital, Calvary North Adelaide and North Eastern Community Hospital.
• More than 1000 hours of work placement are built into the undergraduate Midwifery degree with rewarding opportunities in all areas including antenatal, labour, birthing, postnatal and special care nursery to make industry connections and build practical skills.

• Our hi-tech Healthcare Simulation Centre mirrors real life situations and surroundings to prepare you for work in hospitals and health care centres and allows you to develop clinical reasoning skills through problem-based learning.
• Our lab features patient care manikins that simulate all the stages of a woman giving birth. The laboratory is also home to baby neonate manikins and simulated neonatal intensive care equipment.

• Practical components are an important part of the training program from day one. Students have practical components to examinations to ensure they are career-ready upon graduation.
• Our graduates enter the workforce confidently and ready to tackle all challenges a career in midwifery may bring and are well-equipped to deliver women-centred care in a team of health professionals.
• We offer you the unique opportunity to engage in interprofessional education activities to learn with and about other professions. This prepares you for a multidisciplinary work environment.
• At Flinders, we provide you with a deep and broad understanding of health, art and science that underpins the provision of optimal care, giving your career greater depth to explore clinical practice, advanced practice, specialist midwifery roles or leading-edge research.
• Flinders graduates have an excellent reputation within the health industry.

• Our programs provide personalised support from teaching staff to instil competencies and values needed for a longstanding and varied midwifery career.
• Smaller cohorts enable deeper mentoring opportunities and long-term relationships with our graduates.

• Many of our teaching staff are also active researchers and members of Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute.
  
• We ensure our programs always have the latest evidence-based learning outcomes.

Yes. 2019 employment projections for the five years to May 2024 show the Midwifery profession is projected to grow 16% Australian Labour Market Information Portal.

Yes, upon completion of the program you will be able to register as a midwife with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

No, although we do recommend students undertake biology in Year 12 or the Foundation Studies Program in Science prior to studying the midwifery course.

Yes, if you have current registration as a Registered Nurse, you will be eligible for 36 units (one year) of credit towards the Bachelor of Midwifery.

Yes. You will complete a range of field placements at public and private hospitals across metropolitan and rural areas. Throughout the degree, you will experience clinical placements in many areas of midwifery practice such as antenatal, birthing, post-natal, gynaecology, community midwifery, and neonatal special care. These will take place across metropolitan, regional and rural hospitals and health services in South Australia.

Yes, you will be required to be on call to successfully complete your Continuity of Care Experience (CoCE). This means you will be actively involved with women during their pregnancy and birth experience. You will need to be available when the women are giving birth, which could be at any time, day or night. It is a requirement that you are available to be on call for the labour and birth for these women, equivalent to at least five times a year for each year of your degree.

Placements blocks range between 1 – 6 weeks and are scheduled at different times throughout the semesters. You will be rostered across all shifts over a 7-day week roster.

The current pandemic situation (COVID-19) will affect many aspects of your study, from topic availability on campus to how your classes are delivered. For detailed information about the impact of COVID-19 on your study please refer to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) information page.

• Applications are completed via SATAC
• Visit: satac.edu.au

There is a range of alternative ways to gain entry to most undergraduate courses besides meeting the minimum required ATAR. Details of other pathways can be found at flinders.edu.au/study/pathways

These include:

• Doing the uniTEST, an aptitude test designed to assess the generic reasoning and thinking skills you need to be successful in university-level studies. As a year 12 student, you can use uniTEST results in combination with your ATAR to increase your opportunity to gain entry into any of our courses, with the exception of the Bachelor of Clinical Science/Doctor of Medicine.
• You can apply through SATAC to sit the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT), held in June.
• You can also consider applying for courses with lower requirements, as many courses will allow you to transfer once you have completed a specified amount of the course. This is done through Flinderslink. If you accept an offer at another university and perform well, you can use your grade point average (GPA) to transfer to Flinders University. You may even be eligible for credit.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants can gain admission to Flinders University through the Indigenous Admissions Scheme flinders.edu.au/study/pathways/indigenous-admissions-scheme