Study programme: Midwifery

Programme type: Bachelor (Bc.) 
Study mode: full time
Programme duration: 3 years

This three-year course has taken place at the Department of rehabilitation studies at the Faculty of nursing and midwifery, University of West Bohemia since 2008/2009. This programme is only full time. Immediate career prospects are great for our newly qualified midwives as they can work in the maternity unit of a large general hospital, in smaller stand-alone maternity units, in private maternity hospitals, in group practices, at birth centres, with general practitioners and in the community.

The profession of midwifery is regulated health care profession, the competences set for this profession are in accordance with the law no. 96/2004, with the options for further changes and conditions when working as allied healthcare professionals and providing the healthcare care in accordance with other law no. 391/2017.

Midwives are able to provide a highly specialised care and support for pregnant women, women and their partners during the labour and then follow care after the childbirth. Moreover, our graduates are able to assist with a complicated labour and other gynecologic surgeries. Midwives assess the wellbeing and needs of the mother and her family and upon the discussion with a multidisciplinary team, they can provide highly specialised care and information on a wide range of issues.