Students will have the opportunity to gain clinical experience in maternity units offering care to women and their families during and following pregnancy. This includes working with midwifery teams in the community to provide continuity of care. You will also have the opportunity to experience multi-disciplinary team working thus providing a holistic service to women and their families. Students will be encouraged to demonstrate appropriate attitudes and behaviour towards the woman, her baby and family. These behaviours will be assessed by what are referred to as Professional Attitude Scales. Towards the end of the second and during the third year of the course there will be a period of supervised practice where the student will manage a small integrated caseload under mentor supervision and be expected to participate in providing continuity of carer to those women selected by the mentor to constitute the student caseload.