Graduates in midwifery carry out their professional activity in public or private health facilities, in hospitals and territorial facilities, as employees or freelancers. Further areas of employment can be identified in education, research and management.
The degree in Midwifery gives access to the graduate degree programme in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences and to first-level university specialising Master's degrees.
In the context of the health profession of midwifery, graduates are health professionals who are responsible for the attributions provided for by the Ministerial Decree of the Ministry of Health 14 September 1994, n. 740 and subsequent amendments and additions; that is, they assist and advise the woman during pregnancy, during childbirth and in the puerperium, conduct and carry out eutocic births on their own responsibility and provide assistance to the newborn. This preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative assistance is of a technical, relational and educational nature.
Graduates in midwifery, as far as their competence is concerned, participate in health and sex education interventions both within the family and in the community; psychoprophylactic preparation for childbirth; preparation and assistance for gynaecological procedures; the prevention and detection of cancers of the female genital sphere; maternal and neonatal care programmes; manage, in compliance with professional ethics, as members of the healthcare team, the care interventions for which they are responsible; are able to identify potentially pathological situations that require medical intervention and, where necessary, to carry out the relevant emergency measures; carry out their professional activity in public or private health facilities, as employees or freelancers; they contribute to the formation of their profile and support staff and contribute directly to continuing education and research.