Palliative Care MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert

King’s College London

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

Our Palliative Care course will give you the skills to evaluate evidence to improve care, and to conduct research to inform clinical practice and service development. You can study this as an MSc, PG Diploma or PG Certificate. Whichever you choose, you will have world-class teaching at the cutting edge of the field.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

Key benefits
Our course has a national and international reputation which attracts students from all over the world.
Strongly focused on evidence and on understanding how to conduct research in palliative care and related areas.
Our teaching staff are key academics, practitioners and policy-makers in the field. Lecturers visit us from across the world.
Course based at the Cicely Saunders Institute, a WHO Collaborating Centre for palliative care and rehabilitation that is at the heart of national and international research and academic-clinical collaborations.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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10 Cutcombe Road, SE5 9RJ

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Teaching
  • International
  • Palliative care

Course programme

Year 1 Required Modules

If you are an MSc student, you will take a total of 180 credits.

If you are a PG Dip student, you will take a total of 120 credits.

If you are a PG Cert student, you will take a total of 60 credits.

If you are an MSc student or a PG Dip student, you are required to take all of these modules. If you are a PG Cert student, you are required to take two of these modules.

  • Research Methods and Statistics in Palliative Care (15 credits)
  • Biology and Management of Symptoms in Advanced Disease (15 credits)
  • Psychosocial, Cultural, Ethical and Spiritual Issues (15 credits)
  • Service Organisation and Policy in Palliative Care (15 credits)

If you are an MSc student you are required to take:

  • Research Study Project (60 credits)

Optional Modules

If you are an MSc student or a PG Dip student, you will choose two modules from the list of options below. If you are a PG Cert student, you will choose one.

  • Advanced Psychosocial Ethical and Spiritual Care (30 credits)
  • Applying Epidemiology in Palliative Care (30 credits)
  • Service Development and Management (30 credits)
  • Advanced Pain and Symptom Control (30 credits)

For part-time students: with the exception of Research Methods and Statistics in Palliative Care, which you will take in your first year, you may choose which year you will take each module. If you are an MSc student, you must take your Research Study Project in your second year.

Part time MSc students should expect to study 90 credits a year and PG Dip students 60 credits a year.

We regularly review our modules to make sure our programmes are as up-to-date, innovative and relevant as possible. The modules we offer may therefore change. We suggest that you check the course finder for updates:

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