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The initial focus is on the foundational knowledge and skills required for midwifery practice. Each year, these will be developed and strengthened through theory and practice. In your final year, you’ll also focus on professional issues. Modules include: *

First Year

• Scholarship of Enquiry
• Foundations of Midwifery Practice
• Anatomy, Sciences & Physiology
• Psychology related to the profession of midwifery
• Practice experience in a hospital setting for 10 weeks

Second & Third Year

• Midwifery Practice during Normal Pregnancy & Childbirth
• Complications in Pregnancy & Childbirth
• Caring for Sick Neonatal Babies

Fourth Year

• Research, Leadership & Management
• Developing Further Knowledge & Clinical Skills for Midwifery Practice
• Clinical Placement/Internship

Assessment is through a combination of end-of-semester exams and continuous assessment, including assessment of performance on clinical placements.

* Please Note: Curriculum may be subject to change in line with NMBI Midwifery Registration Programmes Standards and Requirements.

Professional Clinical Experience

Clinical Placements, which form a significant part of the programme are completed across a number of sites throughout the Ireland East Hospital Group (IEHG). You will attend clinical placements in the internationally renowned National Maternity Hospital (NMH) and a linked maternity unit in the IEHG e.g in Wexford General, Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar and St Luke’s General Hospital, Kilkenny. Students will be placed in any IEHG site on one or multiple occasions during their programme to enable them to achieve the necessary clinical learning outcomes.

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First & Second Year
In the first semester, you’ll take a series of modules that introduce the application of medical science to the study of biological systems and disease. You’ll also learn the clinical skills needed for the rest of the programme. The remainder of the first two years integrates the medical science disciplines, while gradually expanding your professional capabilities in a clinical environment.

Third & Fourth Year
In the final two years, hospital and community placements with structured clinical education complete your degree. During your clinical training, you’ll participate in a series of specialist rotations, including medicine, surgery, psychiatry, obstetrics and paediatrics. Finally, you’ll undertake our acclaimed Professional Completion module to integrate your knowledge and prepare you for life as an intern.

Learning methods include lectures, small group sessions, practicals and enquiry-based learning in the classroom and at the bedside

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First Year
Focuses on core sciences and their application to Medicine. Highlights include:

• Chemistry
• Biology
• Physics
• Genetics
• Human Ethics
• Healthcare Imaging
• Science Medicine & Society

Second Year
Focuses on the structure and function of healthy organ systems. Highlights include:

• Anatomy Dissection
• Interviewing patients in the community

Third & Fourth Year
Complete the study of organ systems in health and disease. Begin clinical attachments. Highlights include:

• Pathology
• Microbiology
• Pharmacology
• Neurosciences
• Respiratory Diseases
• Clinical Skills and attachments in hospitals
• Clinical Diagnosis & Therapeutics
• General Practice and Professionalism
• ENT & Ophthalmology

Fifth & Sixth Year
Immersive clinical attachments, instruction in the various medical specialties, clinical elective and professional completion. Highlights include:

• Medicine
• Surgery
• Obstetrics & Gynaecology
• Paediatrics
• Psychiatry
• General Practice & Community Medicine
• Legal Medicine
• Public Health Medicine
• Professional Completion

The Medicine programme combines lectures, seminars, patient educator sessions, simulations, small group tutorials and clinical bedside learning.

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First Year
You’ll not only take modules in:

• Clinical Human Anatomy
• Translational Research
• Basic Tissues & Early Development
• Genetics Cell Biology,

You will also start to learn about translational research and the influence of science and medicine on society.

Second & Third Year
You’ll continue with modules in Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Physiology. You’ll also start to integrate modules focusing on specific diseases and disease processes, in order to learn more about the development of new, more effective means of diagnosing, treating and preventing illness. Supporting modules include:

• Biostatistics
• Neuroscience
• Laboratory Skills
• Cardiac/Vascular Biology
• Pharmacology/Biochemistry
• Renal Biology
• Bioinformatics Genetics & proteomics
• Mechanisms of disease
• Endocrine, renal and reproductive pharmacology
• Central nervous system diseases.

Fourth Year
You’ll build skills in biomedical research through interactions and research rotations with international researchers in a range of disease areas. These are undertaken within the School of Medicine and its affiliated teaching hospitals.

The degree will develop your fundamental knowledge in the translation of scientific discovery into clinical utilisation.

You’ll take modules in:

• Cloning, gene therapy & stem cells
• Advanced neurochemistry
• Drug discovery & development
• Clinical biomarkers
• Genetics, disease & behaviour.

You’ll have the opportunity to be involved in peer-reviewed abstracts and publications and to present at national and international meetings.

You’ll experience an innovative mix of learning methods, including lectures, small group tutorials, research projects and laboratory-based learning.

Assessment methods include end-ofsemester exams, continuous assessment, report writing and oral presentations.

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First & Second Year

Third & Fourth Year

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