Midwifery at university of Greenwich

I was looking into midwifery at Greenwich and would find it really useful if any current students could share their experiences and help with a few of my questions

1) during placements how many hours is average hospital shift?
2) how many weeks is studying in the year including placement and theory?
3) is it 50% theory and 50% placement split?
4) how difficult is the workload? And overall content?

Thank you really appreciate it

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Shu56784

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by Shu56784

I was looking into midwifery at Greenwich and would find it really useful if any current students could share their experiences and help with a few of my questions
1) during placements how many hours is average hospital shift?
2) how many weeks is studying in the year including placement and theory?
3) is it 50% theory and 50% placement split?
4) how difficult is the workload? And overall content?
Thank you really appreciate it

How many days a week are you on placement?

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Littleemma98

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by Shu56784

I was looking into midwifery at Greenwich and would find it really useful if any current students could share their experiences and help with a few of my questions
1) during placements how many hours is average hospital shift?
2) how many weeks is studying in the year including placement and theory?
3) is it 50% theory and 50% placement split?
4) how difficult is the workload? And overall content?
Thank you really appreciate it

Generally nursing degrees are a 50/50 split of university studying blocks weeks and placements in either hospitals or community settings.

Your hospital ward shift could be a 12.5/13 Hours over 3 days or perhaps split shifts of about 8 hours ( example - 6am - 2pm / 2pm - 10pm / 10pm - 6am Nightshift) five days per week. Each hospital trust has their own shift patterns.

As far as I understand midwifery is very very hard to do especially workload.

A NHS adult nurse ( I work a 12 hours shift pattern over 3 days with 4 days of per week.).