In this capstone unit, you will consolidate knowledge, skills, and values acquired throughout your course to facilitate your transition to registered midwifery practice. Midwives face challenges in their everyday practice, and this unit will equip you with graduate capabilities, resilience skills and strategies to mitigate personal risk and encourage peer support to effectively deal with these challenges encountered throughout your career. You will also learn the importance of continual professional development, for your own career progression, and for the care you will provide to women and their families.

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from SUTE feedback

The majority of feedback provided centred on the group presentation assessment. They felt this approach led to unequal contributions by students and resulted in grades that did not accurately reflect individual effort. One student's feedback was: the unit overall was fantastic but the group work within this unit left me very frustrated. I am unsure of how to resolve this. I was ignored by group members and had multiple meetings cancelled which left me with a very disappointed end product (assessment). I do appreciate the support I received when I expressed my frustration to a staff member.

The group presentation assessment will be revisited by the midwifery team and developed into an individual presentation for future offerings. Efforts will be made to align the assessment with the learning outcomes of the unit whilst addressing the student feedback raised.

Feedback from SUTE feedback

Another comment on the group presentation was that combining a short individual written component with the presentation was time-consuming.

Although the assessment carries a 50% weighting, revisions will focus on streamlining the process and addressing the time burden on students.