Dr Sam Bassett is Head of Department, Midwifery and Lead Midwife for Education at King’s College London. An experienced midwife and educationalist her ongoing centre of clinical practice is high-risk pregnancies completing her doctorate in 2016 focusing on maternal high dependency care. 

Sam's teaching expertise includes midwifery emergencies, medical complexities in childbirth, and low and hi fidelity simulation with a particular interest in the use of Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) across both pre and post-qualification curriculums. 

Clinical midwifery practice remains central to Sam’s work and she continues to contribute to the development of key practice guidelines/publications and instruct on courses such as the Resuscitation Council-UK Newborn Life Support (NLS) and represents midwifery on national courses such as Managing Medical and Obstetric Emergency Training (mMOET).

Research interests

• Maternal medical complexities
• Midwifery high dependency care
• Midwifery education

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Research profile