Advanced Maternal Health Management 20 credits

Mapped to key elements of the newly launched Advanced Clinical Practice in Midwifery Capabilities Framework, this course will help you build advanced knowledge and skills in managing complex maternal health presentations. You'll deepen your understanding of the physiology and pathology behind maternity complications—and learn how to create safe, effective management plans using a systematic, evidence-based approach.

You’ll be able to critically appraise issues aligned to maternal morbidity causation, identifying both common and uncommon presentations, including public health, epidemiology, health promotion and health policy.

 Learning objectives

• Systematically identify diverse clinical presentations relevant to the childbearing continuum and demonstrate advanced understanding of their aetiology and treatment.
• Demonstrate the ability to synthesise information from multiple sources to inform advanced clinical reasoning and make appropriate and evidence-based judgements and/or diagnosis.
• Critically evaluate and modify appropriate interventions to enable effective personalised care.
• Propose effective, safe and personalised solutions when managing unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable situations that require clinical expertise across professional service boundaries.

Course dates

• 12th, 19th, and 26th May 2026
• 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd June 2026

Teaching staff

• Module lead: Victoria Watson

Assessment

• A clinical case portfolio and written extended case summary - 100 Weighting

The practice document will comprise of 2500 words detailing three individual episodes of care relating to advanced maternal health management. It will include:

• • Analysis of 3 complex or unfamiliar case-based presentations focusing on pathology and the diverse nature of each presentation.
  • Synthesis of evidence based clinical reasoning whilst critically evaluating rationale for diagnosis and management.
  • Each case-based presentation must address the module learning outcomes to ensure that, across the 3 cases, all learning outcomes are met.
  • Evidence of a minimum of 45 hours work based learning

Credits

20 credits

Please contact the programme administrator at acp@contacts.bham.ac.uk  

Fees for 2026 entry

Microcredential (Home): £1,211

Please note the Microcredential is not open to International students.

Why choose a Postgraduate Microcredential short course?

• Microcredentials offer the perfect opportunity to boost your CV without the commitment of a full degree
• Usually taken from existing modules within a Masters, they can be used as standalone credentials with some also counting as academic credits at postgraduate level
• Add a postgraduate level qualification to your CV
• Develop the specialist skills you need for your career goals
• Alumni status with the University of Birmingham
• Learners will have the same access to our student support and campus facilities as our students on full degree programmes.

Please note the deadline for submitting an application:

• Applicants eligible for Home fees are to apply a minimum of 6 weeks before the module start date.
• Applicants eligible for Overseas fees are to apply a minimum of 3 months before the module start date.

Please note that once registered for the microcredential you cannot swap for the non-credit short course version.