Studying midwifery in Scotland

RGU student Anna shares her journey choosing to study midwifery in Scotland after leaving Sweden to live abroad.

Choosing Scotland to study my dream course

I am one of those people who has always known I wanted to become a midwife. But in Sweden, where I’m from, you have to be a qualified nurse to later study Midwifery. It’s something I always thought I would do eventually, but having very little interest in nursing I was in no rush to get there.

I lived in a few different countries in my early 20s’ and found myself in Glasgow at 27 years old, completing an art degree. When I learned that there was a direct entry course to Midwifery in Scotland, I put my full attention to achieve this, and I was ecstatic to learn I’d been accepted to RGU to study a BSc in Midwifery.

My Midwifery course experience at RGU

I am very impressed by the course content that the Midwifery lecturing staff offer and find it very relevant, which encourages me to do further learning and use the additional resources available. The staff support us in everything we do and encourage any ideas that we come up with.

This is my final year at RGU, and at the start of the semester I became the president of the RGU Midwifery Society. I want to focus on the community that student midwives create while we’re on this course. It’s a fantastic group of students offering their support, organising events, and creating additional learning experiences for student midwives.

The highlight of my degree is the people I’ve meet while being on this course. My peers are a shining light of what they have to offer the future of midwifery, our lecturers are passionate in their learning, and midwives I’ve met during placement inspire me to be better.

The benefits of studying Midwifery in Scotland

As someone who’s not from Scotland, my degree has given me the opportunity to travel all over Scotland, meet and work with people from all over the world and given me a real insight to what midwifery is and can be. I’m incredibly lucky with the flexibility of the course, being able to stay in my home in Glasgow and travel for placement.

I believe that a degree in midwifery makes the world a bigger place for me. It’s such an incredible profession and I cannot wait to see where it takes me.

Anna Winberg