Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences

Degree: Bachelor of Midwifery

Form of studies: Full-time, first-cycle

Length of studies: 3 years

Number of ECTS: 185

Language of instruction: English

Midwifery program

The Midwifery Program prepares students to provide obstetric, gynecological, neonatal, and basic nursing care to women and their children throughout various stages of life, especially during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
The degree lasts 6 semesters.
Throughout their education, students can participate in additional courses, training, and interdisciplinary team-based activities with students from other programs. The primary goal of midwifery education is to prepare future midwives for professional practice.
Application for Midwifery Program conducted in English is available only for candidates who are not Polish citizens.

Why Midwifery at MUL?

The practical classes and internships are organised in such a way that the acquisition of practical skills in natural conditions is preceded by the development of these skills in low-fidelity simulation training, namely in obstetric skills laboratories and nursing skills laboratories at the Medical Simulation Centre. The practical classes and apprenticeships are conducted in various hospital wards, such as: labour wards, maternity and neonatal wards, pregnancy pathology wards and gynaecology wards. The practical classes and internships also take place in primary midwifery care units, gynaecological and obstetrics clinics, as well as during antenatal classes and in breastfeeding clinics.

Choose Midwifery if you want to:

• acquire general knowledge in the field of medical sciences and the detailed knowledge of midwifery profession
• learn how to provide healthcare services to women and their families during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period
• acquire skills that allow to recognise and monitor a normal pregnancy and deliver a baby
• detect abnormal conditions in the mother and child during pregnancy, delivery and puerperium

Our Midwifery Program equips you with both essential medical knowledge and practical skills necessary to practise as a midwife.

Studying at MUL:

• high level of education
• international environment
• wide variety of extracurricular activities
• practical classes conducted in well-equipped simulation classes and teaching hospitals

Graduate profile:

After completing the first-cycle studies in Midwifery the graduates obtain the right to work in public and private healthcare institutions. They can work in maternity units, birth clinics but also in physicians’ offices and in the community. The Bachelor of Midwifery degree earned at the Medical University of Lublin entitles alumni to apply for a medical license that will allow them to practise midwifery worldwide. The graduates who wish to continue their education may apply for admission to second-cycle studies.