students
Midwifery students are our future midwifery workforce and the RCM is here to support and guide you throughout your student journey and beyond.
Supporting students
From the moment you start considering midwifery as a career, the RCM is here to support you. We can provide advice to help you make the best application to university, and, when you get there, we can help you get the best out of your studies. We also advocate on your behalf, from the quality of education to calling on politicians to forgive student debt.
If you’re considering studying midwifery at university, why not become an affiliate member of the RCM? You’ll get access to our online learning platform and all our policy content, resources, webinars, student events and much more, helping you get ahead of the game.
And if you’re already at university and you haven’t done already, join us! There’s no other organisation that can offer you the range of services and support that the RCM can. You can join the RCM as a student member at any time – even before you start your programme, you can join as an affiliate member.
Getting involved
Student Midwife Forum
University midwifery societies
Scotland student midwife network
Financial support
A career in midwifery is incredibly rewarding, but we understand it can be tough while you’re studying.
Financial support varies across the UK countries. Your university may also have its own guidance. For a broader overview, these links might be helpful
- England: The Funding Clinic
- Northern Ireland – Student Finance Northern Ireland
- Scotland – Student Awards Agency for Scotland
- Wales – Student Finance Wales
Student essentials on i-learn
Exclusively available to RCM members, our bespoke online learning platform has lots of great modules to support your studies, and there’s no better starting point than the student essentials module.
MIDIRS
MIDIRS is part of the RCM family, there to support midwifery education and training. MIDIRS Midwifery Digest is a quarterly journal of evidence based original articles and reprints, clinical reflections and practice improvements. Your MIDIRS subscription also gives you access to the world’s largest midwifery specific database, the Maternity and Infant Care (MIC) database, which collates information and resources relating to midwifery. Whether it appears in an academic journal, in a government report, on a website or elsewhere, we catalogue it and create a record on our database. We currently have over 300,000 of these records, making our database the largest of its kind in the world. In addition, you can access subject-specific research packs, the quarterly publication of the MIDIRS Midwifery Digest and our Latest Research Update. And RCM members get a 20% discount too.
