As a student midwife at ARU, you'll use purpose-built skills labs that simulate aspects of a real hospital ward.
You'll also get hands-on with sophisticated healthcare equipment, and practice skills including:
Skills sessions are designed to be practical, and support what you learn in lectures. They're an important part of your midwifery degree, and a chance to develop your clinical know-how. You'll learn from supportive tutors as part of a small group.
"Skills days are designed to teach you the basics of midwifery practice. There are a lot of helpful models around the skills labs to help you with things you learn in lectures. If like me, you are a visual learner, then the skills days will be fantastic for you. I struggled to understand the mechanisms of labour and how the baby does all these fantastic twists in the birth canal to aid delivery. After a few times with the doll and pelvis I really understood."
Amber Sage, Midwifery studentYou can choose to study Midwifery at ARU in Cambridge, Chelmsford or Peterborough. All three campuses have midwifery skills labs.
Learn more about our BSc (Hons) Midwifery degree.
