Graduate Diploma in Midwifery

If youre a registered nurse with a passion for helping new parents safely navigate pregnancy, birth and early parenthood, fast-track your entry to midwifery practice with La Trobes Graduate Diploma in Midwifery. Our flexible 12-month course focuses on contemporary issues in Australian midwifery practice by combining lectures, workshops, labs and simulations with hands-on clinical placements in some of Melbourne and regional Victorias most respected maternity services.

Campus
Duration
Fees
ATAR

Bendigo

Full-time - 1 years

$32,400
N/A

Melbourne (Bundoora)

Full-time - 1 years

$32,400
N/A

Structure

Total of 120 Credit Points

Subjects

  • LTU0AIM Academic Integrity Module
  • MID4004 Context Of WomenS Lives And Comprehensive Maternity Care
  • NSM4IPH First Nations Perinatal Health
  • MID4001 Foundations Of Midwifery Care
  • NSM4REM Research And Evidence In Midwifery
  • MID4003 Complex Maternal And Neonatal Care
  • MID4002 Labour, Birth And Postnatal Care

Entry requirements

  • Postgraduate: Prerequisites - Course specific requirements - A place in this program is dependent upon the applicant having a clinical place at an approved clinical midwifery agency in either the metropolitan or regional areas.
  • Postgraduate: Prerequisites - Course specific requirements - Applicants must have current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
  • Postgraduate: Prerequisites - Course specific requirements - Specialisation - compulsory: Nursing
  • Postgraduate: Prerequisites - Course specific requirements - Successful completion of an Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent). (Applicants who have become registered nurses via a hospital education pathway may have this requirement waived.)
  • Note: This course may be subject to alternative or extra entry requirements depending on your life circumstances and/or work experience. For the complete entry requirements, please search for your course on the La Trobe website: latrobe.edu.au/courses

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