Griffith Bachelor of Midwifery

Awards for Programmes that Enhance Learning

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The Griffith University Bachelor of Midwifery (BMid) program reflects innovation, flexibility, and quality in curricula, learning and teaching. Values-driven, future focussed, and woman-centred, the program prepares graduates not only to be evidence-based practitioners, but to envision maternity care for the future. The BMid was the first Griffith Health Group program to fully adopt innovative blended learning technology. Design features include a) short, intensive blocks of teaching, b) sophisticated integration of educational technology enabling students to access theoretical content in a meaningful and purposeful way while remaining engaged in their clinical learning, c) innovative real-world assessment, and d) a novel clinical education model which places students in one facility for the duration of their program. Effective partnerships with clinical facilities by BMid lecturers fosters student engagement and learning, and builds the teaching capabilities of clinical staff preceptors. The flexibility created by these design features enables students to recruit and provide continuity of care throughout pregnancy, birth and postpartum for a minimum of 20 women. Griffith BMid graduates are preferred by employers (100% employment) and recognised for their preparedness for practice. The teaching team is internationally renowned for its rigorous, research-based approach to learning and teaching innovation, flexibility, evaluation and scholarship.