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| Application Deadline: | as early as possible | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 988 - ≈ € 12,654 (non-EEA) | ||
| 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
Oxford Brookes pioneered the development of a Diploma in Palliative Care in 1991 and was the first university in the UK to offer such a course. Our MSc in Palliative Care has gone from strength to strength.
The multiprofessional course is offered as an online distance learningoron campus course and is open to a wide range of practitioners including social workers, nurses, doctors, therapists and others working with people with life-threatening illnesses. We welcome UK, EU and international applicants who wish to study palliative care at an advanced level.
The distance learning mode of study offers you the advantages of studying at Oxford Brookes University whilst remaining grounded in your own professional practice and your own cultural values. The aim of the course is to develop your knowledge and skills to respond effectively to people with palliative care needs and to help their families. The course promotes the development of evidence-based practice and innovation in palliative care. In particular, it aims to develop confident, knowledgeable, skilled practitioners in palliative care who will be leaders in their field.
Other study options
* Cancer Studies - MSc, PGDip, PGCert
* Cancer 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 and 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 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 PGDip and PGCert, please contact the Programme Administrator.
The course aims to build on your existing personal and professional knowledge and skills, and to further develop you as a confident, skilled, knowledgeable, sensitive and responsive practitioner who will be able to take a key role in leading and developing high quality services.
You may exit the course with a PGCert in Palliative Care (three modules), a PGDip in Palliative Care (six modules) or an MSc in Palliative Care (nine modules). MSc students will complete a triple dissertation module.
The following three single modules are compulsory for all palliative care students on the postgraduate course and comprise the PGDip:
* Death and Dying Studies
* Psychosocial Palliative Care
* Advanced Symptom Management.
Students taking the PGDip will also take the following single modules:
* Advanced Research Design (single module)
* Evidence-based Practice
* Mastering Professional Practice.
Teaching, learning and assessment
The teaching team supporting this course are all expert practitioners in palliative care across the lifespan. They maintain close links with the clinical and community settings that deliver palliative care, many of which have national and international reputations for practice excellence in these fields, such as Sir Michael Sobell House and Helen & Douglas House. They also have specific expertise in pain management, psycho-oncology and the care of children and their families with palliative care needs. As palliative care is often a point of transition from cancer care, the team has a particularly close relationship with teaching and practice colleagues in that field of care. This expertise and the links maintained with colleagues and researchers in palliative care ensure that the reality of practice and the development of practice innovations are firmly embedded within the curriculum.
The palliative care course encourages the use of critical reflection as a personal, interpersonal and group process. It is also used to encourage critical debate about palliative care practice. Assessment methods differ from module to module, but typically include a mixture of project work, case studies, extended essays or learning contracts. All of our courses adopt a student-centred approach to teaching and learning and are strongly focused on encouraging each individual to attain their full potential as lifelong learners.
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 palliative care will normally be health or social care professionals with palliative 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 a registered health or social care professional
* have a source of funding to enable you to meet the course fees.
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. This means you must have an IELTS score of 6.5-7.0 overall, or a qualification at an equivalent level.
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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