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| Application Deadline: | 30 July in each intake year | ||
| Location: | Bristol / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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This degree enables health professionals to develop a systematic understanding of ethical and legal issues in medicine and draw on your own practice to critically evaluate the key theoretical approaches in this field. The programme also offers you the opportunity to demonstrate originality, creativity and application of knowledge through reflecting on ethical and legal issues you have encountered in your own practice in the health professions.
The programme is part-time over two years, and is designed to allow flexibility to fit around work schedules. There is one entry point for the MSc every two years. At present it is planned that the next entry point will be for the 2012-2013 academic year, with no intake in 2011. Students can exit early from the MSc with either a Postgraduate Certificate (the first 60 credits of the MSc) or a Postgraduate Diploma (the first 120 credits of the MSc).
Contents
The MSc comprises 180 credit points in total, comprimising individual units of 15,30 or 60 credits. The Certificate comprises one 30-credit and two 15-credit units. The Diploma comprises the Certificate plus one further 30-credit and two 15-credit units. You will then undertake a Dissertation (60 credits) to be awarded the MSc.
Certificate Modules
* Introduction to Health Care Ethics Theory and Law (30 credits)
* Patient-Centred Issues in Health Care Ethics and Law (15 credits)
* Professional Issues in Health Care Ethics and Law (15 credits)
Diploma Modules
* Decision-making at the Beginning and End of Life (30 credits)
* Current Topics in Clinical Ethics (15 credits)
* Plus one optional unit, to be chosen from the list below (15 credits)
* Children, Young People and Health Care: Ethical and Legal Issues (15 credits)
* Research Ethics (15 credits)
* Ethical issues in the Allied Health Professions (15 credits)
(Please note that actual units offered may vary with student demand and staff expertise)
Dissertation Module
* Dissertation in Health Care Ethics and Law (60 credits)
You may enrol for the Certificate (which comprises the first four mandatory units) or the whole MSc; you may also elect to withdraw prior to completing the dissertation, and qualify for a Diploma. Likewise, having undertaken the Certificate you are welcome to enrol for further study. Students who have completed the Certificate can return in a later intake to continue to Diploma or MSc level, although please note that there is an MSc intake only every two years.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
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Entry requirements
The programme is available to health and law professionals, usually with an approved professional qualification and a minimum of three years' experience since qualification, although other applicants are considered. Access to computing facilities is essential.
Language requirements
An IELTS score of 6.5 in all bands. We also accept other language tests; please see our website for details.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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