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| Application Deadline: | as early as possible | ||
| Location: | Oxford / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | January, September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Oxford Brookes University
The MSc in Cancer Care offered by Oxford Brookes is a multiprofessional and practice-focused course that welcomes UK, EU and international applicants who want to study cancer care at an advanced level. The course is open to a wide range of practitioners and will be of interest to nurses, therapists and others working with people who have cancer. The course aims to enhance both the quality of care you provide to patients and their families as an expert practitioner and your skills as a manager and/or leader in your chosen area of care.
The course is founded on the belief that the experience of cancer is a unique personal journey, and that health care should focus on each individual's changing needs, experiences and personal priorities. Its framework enables you to develop a critical understanding of cancer care within your practice area.
Other study options
* Cancer Studies - MSc, PGDip, PGCert
* Palliative Care - MSc, PGDip, PGCert
Why Brookes?
* We have a large and dedicated building in Oxford (Marston Road) and a campus in Swindon (Ferndale), equipped with state-of-the-art classroom and clinical skills simulation suites and resources.
* We have our own osteopathic clinics: Mill Court in Headington, Oxford and at Ferndale Campus in Swindon, offering a full range of osteopathic treatments to students, staff, NHS staff and the general public.
* Our courses are open to a wide range of health and social care professionals providing highly-flexible continuing professional development (CPD) study opportunities with part-time, full-time and mixed-mode options (including opportunities for e-learning, blended and distance learning).
* We support multi and interprofessional learning and teaching, and many of our courses are either fully multiprofessional or offer excellent opportunities for shared learning.
* Our lecturers are experienced in their specialist practice area and maintain excellent practice links with those areas locally or across the region.
* Many of our lecturers have reputations for excellence and have established links with colleagues, organisations and institutions at national and international level.
* We have a strong research profile, with experienced researchers working in established areas of cancer care, children and families, drug and alcohol, physical rehabilitation and enablement and interprofessional education & collaborative practice.
* Oxford Brookes is rated internationally excellent across a broad range of subjects in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). 70% of our research in Allied Health Professions and Studies was rated as being of international significance, of which 10% was rated as world-leading.
* Oxford Brookes is a student-centred institution that is fully committed to each individual achieving their potential. To support this, we offer a broad range of student support schemes to facilitate learning and development
* We have an excellent track record of high levels of student satisfaction, low student attrition rates and high employability.
Contents
Course length
Full-time: MSc: 12 months
Part-time: MSc: up to 3 years. For PGCert / PGDip please contact the Programme Administrator.
TUITION FEES
UK/EU
Full-time: £870 per single unit
Part-time: £870 per single unit
International
Full-time: £11,140
Part-time: £1,240 per single unit
The patient diagnosed with cancer needs to be supported through all phases of the disease from diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation to recovery or to the transition to palliative care. This course is specifically designed to enable any health and social care professional who works with patients with cancer to develop the specialist knowledge and skills required to practise effectively. It achieves this by:
* developing evidence-based expertise and exemplary practice
* promoting collaboration and leadership within the interprofessional team
* promoting leadership in cancer care research and practice development
* promoting care that is responsive to the social, cultural and political context of care, and which promotes social inclusion
* encouraging the development of self-awareness, reflective skills and a commitment to continued learning.
The PGCert in Cancer Care comprises three modules and the PGDip comprises six modules. The MSc course follows the same pattern as the PGDip, plus a triple module dissertation of 20,000 words.
There are three compulsory modules:
* The Experience of Life-Threatening Illness focuses on the experience of people with life-threatening illness, with a primary focus on cancer. It explores ways of understanding the experience of another person, drawing on research methods, personal accounts and the arts, and incorporating social attitudes.
* Advanced Communication and Supportive Relationships explores verbal and non-verbal communication and the development of supportive relationships within the context of life-threatening illness. It builds on existing skills and develops them within your own area of practice.
* Advanced Symptom Management analyses the development of assessment skills and the management of distressing symptoms in the context of life-threatening illness. This is explored within the context of your own practice and with an awareness of the interprofessional context of health care.
For the PGDip, you must also study Advanced Research Design, plus two additional elective modules. The Advanced Research Design module prepares you to design and conduct research. It focuses on helping you to understand the relationship between methodology and method, and the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of research.
To gain the MSc, you must also pass the Dissertation (in Cancer Care). This allows you to research an aspect of cancer care in depth, and to study a particular research design. An important aspect of writing the dissertation is the investigation of focused research questions in a systematic and rigorous way.
The elective modules you choose may be taken from a wide range within the postgraduate health and social care course portfolio.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Applicants for the postgraduate course in Cancer Care will normally be health or social care professionals with cancer care experience. In addition, you must normally:
* have a first degree, or demonstrate your ability to study at the appropriate level by submission of an Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning portfolio
* be currently working in a practice setting, or have recent practice experience that enables you to achieve the practice skills of the course
* have the support of your manager and a clinical supervisor
* have a source of funding to enable you to meet the course fees.
Note: The university offers a pre-master's programme which has been designed to fully prepare you for your future master's course if:
* your undergraduate qualifications do not meet the level required for postgraduate study
* you wish to take a master's in a subject that is different from your undergraduate degree
* you need to improve your study skills and use of academic English.
Go to the main Oxford Brookes website for more information.
English language requirements
If your first language is not English you must demonstrate that your level of English is appropriate for study at postgraduate level - IELTS 6.5-7.0 overall, or equivalent.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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