Program Overview

Graduate Diploma of Midwifery

Overview

The Graduate Diploma of Midwifery is a 1.5-year part-time course that builds on your qualifications and experience as a Registered Nurse, enabling you to become a Midwife. This ANMAC-accredited program combines core subjects with practical experience, including continuous placement in a facility of your choice in Australia.

Fast Facts

• Location: Online, with two compulsory five-day residential schools at JCU's Townsville campus
• Commencing: January
• Fees:
  • Estimated annual Commonwealth Supported fee: $4,627.00
  • Estimated annual tuition fee: $25,255.00
• Duration: 1.5 years part-time
• Entry Requirements:
  • AHPRA registration as a nurse
  • AQF level 7 degree in a health-related field or equivalent
  • Minimum 12 months clinical experience
  • Concurrent 0.4 FTE employment in a Midwifery unit

Course Detail

The course combines core subjects with practical experience, including:

• Continuous placement in a facility of your choice in Australia
• A continuity of midwifery care experience program, where you will follow women through antenatal appointments, labour, birth, and the postnatal period
• Two compulsory five-day residential schools at JCU's Townsville campus, providing opportunities to network and learn in a collaborative environment
• Focussed studies of Indigenous health and midwifery practice in rural, remote, and tropical northern settings

Career Opportunities

JCU midwifery graduates work as midwives in a variety of settings, including public and private hospitals, birth centres and clinics, midwifery group practice, aeromedical services, and neonatal care, education, and rural and remote facilities.

Inherent Requirements

Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated during the learning experience to successfully complete the course.

How to Apply

Applicants must:

• Be registered as a nurse in Australia
• Have at least 12 months clinical experience as a registered nurse
• Have completed an AQF level 7 bachelor degree in a health-related field or equivalent
• Have concurrent employment minimum 0.4 FTE in a Midwifery unit

Applicants are required to upload the following completed forms and required documentary evidence:

• Graduate Diploma of Midwifery Student Application Form
• Current NMBA RN Registration
• Degree testamur or official academic transcript
• Curriculum Vitae
• Graduate Diploma of Midwifery Student Placement Agreement

Professional Experience Placement

Applicants are required to read the Graduate Diploma of Midwifery PEP Handbook prior to application. Clinical Facilities usually advertise clinical positions for postgraduate midwifery students. You could also approach the midwifery educator at each facility and ask if they employ or support postgraduate midwifery students with clinical placement.

Clinical Requirements

Professional experience in the form of clinical placement is sought by the student. It is a requirement of the GDMid that all students secure a minimum of a 0.4 FTE clinical placement (either paid or supernumerary) at an approved clinical facility, for the duration of the course (18 months), prior to application.

Real Stories

• Hannah Read, Graduate Diploma of Midwifery student
• Zoe Robson, Graduate Diploma of Midwifery alumni
• Michelle McElroy, Course Coordinator, Graduate Diploma of Midwifery
• Helen Weisemann, Midwifery Unit Manager, Mater Health Services NQ

Real-World Experience

Caseload midwife How Kira Teare found her true passion.