Midwifery

At the end of the three-year course, graduates must be able to:
- manage the physical, psychological and social needs and diagnose the need for help of women, couples and the community as a whole, within the various social and medical fields, by combining theoretical and practical knowledge in order to respond with technical and scientific competence, including where foreign users are concerned;
- manage obstetric and gynaecological needs which call for preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative competences in specific fields of highly specialised gynaecology and obstetrics, such as mammary pathology, pelvic static disorders, sterility, infertility, metabolic diseases and infective diseases, etc;
- maintain good relations and provide information concerning the birthing process and family planning problems by keeping with the principle of responsible motherhood and fatherhood, including when dealing with people from other ethnic groups, thus taking into account their cultural characteristics with counselling skills;
- conduct education sessions on reproductive health for women and couples as well as the community at large, especially where sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are concerned;
- conduct education sessions on the prevention of neoplastic diseases affecting the female genital system and
related glands, by using the information processes and methods in which the student becomes competent (e.g. self examination of breast, pap-tests etc.)
- manage the social and medical needs of pregnant women, providing any and all informative and educational support needed to help resolve situations of conflict where drug addiction, poverty and disabilities are concerned;
- ascertain clinical manifestations linked to the biological and sexual cycle of the woman;
- ascertain clinical manifestations linked specifically to pregnancy;
- plan, provide and evaluate the gynaecological, obstetric and neonatal care provided to both healthy and unhealthy individuals within a complex and integrated social-welfare system, by promoting lifestyles that are positive for health and adopting assistance systems geared towards self-management and self-treatment;
- monitor maternal-foetal wellbeing during the physiological pregnancy, during spontaneous birth and (in conjunction with specialists) in pathological situations (supervision and care for at least 40 women in labour);
- practice normal birth in the event of vertex presentation including, where necessary, episiotomy and, in the event of an emergency, breech presentation;
- prevent, identify, monitor and manage potentially pathological situations which require medical intervention and, where necessary, take the relevant emergency measures by using the available means within their competence.
- evaluate any clinical manifestations associated with pathologies of a gynaecological, obstetric and neonatal nature, with reactions to various stages of illness, to surgery conducted on an in-patient, day-Hospital and day-surgery basis, and home care;
- assess clinical manifestations associated with pregnancy of an immediate, intermediate and overdue nature during hospitalisation, and during home care, including the assessment of newborns not affected by significant pathologies;
- assess clinical manifestations associated with pregnancy of an immediate, intermediate and overdue nature during hospitalisation, including the assessment of clinical manifestations of pre-term and post-term newborns of less than average weight, or affected by a variety of pathologies;
- provide assistance planned in accordance with verified and verifiable Guidelines based on scientific evidence (Ebm/Ebc);
- examine the newborn and care for it by taking every necessary measure and, if necessary, perform immediate reanimation;
- guarantee the correct application of diagnostic and therapeutic performance in compliance with scientific principles and adapt them to the person being treated, in relation to the various priorit