Overview
This Palliative Care course at King's College London is multi-disciplinary and multi- professional. You will learn alongside palliative care professionals from across the world and from all disciplines at the Cicely Saunders Institute. We have students from a wide range of disciplines and professions including doctors, chaplains, nurses, social workers and physiotherapists.
Our primary aim is to improve your ability, competence and confidence to care for patients with advanced disease, and for their families. This requires you to be able to critically evaluate evidence of the effectiveness, appropriateness and acceptability of existing interventions and services, both medical and psychosocial.
Key benefits
- Our course has a national and international reputation which attracts students from all over the world
- Strongly focused on evidence and an understanding how to conduct research in palliative care and related areas
- 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
- Our teaching staff are academics, practitioners, policy makers and global leaders in palliative care
- Our MSc is delivered with St Christopher’s Hospice, which provides skilled and compassionate palliative care of the highest quality.
Career prospects
Many of our graduates have gone on to become leaders in their field, to make significant contributions to patient and family care and to influence palliative care policy locally, nationally and internationally. Many have used this course to progress their careers from specialist training registrars in palliative medicine to challenging and exciting consultant posts in hospital, hospice and community settings, and a growing number of clinical nurse specialists are now nurse consultants.
Increasing numbers go on to conduct PhDs in palliative care related areas and the course has given to some exciting opportunities to conduct high quality research which has successfully been disseminated at scientific meetings or high quality, peer-reviewed journals.
Programme Structure
Courses include:- Research Methods and Statistics in Palliative Care
- Assessment and Management of Symptoms in Advanced Disease
- Service Management and Policy in Palliative Care
- Applying Psychosocial, Cultural, Ethical and Spiritual Issues to Palliative and End of Life Care
- Applying Epidemiology in Palliative Care
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
- Part-time
- 24 months
- Flexible
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before , International
- Apply before , National
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Distance Learning (Full-time/Part-time) – MSc Only - final application deadline is on 25 August
Language
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Credits
Delivered
Campus Location
- London, United Kingdom
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- A degree in medicine, nursing or dentistry or a 2:1 degree in life sciences or social sciences. You must also have experience of working in palliative care or an associated area, eg clinical or social care research.
- A personal statement of up to 4,000 characters (maximum 2 pages) is required.
- A copy (or copies) of your official academic transcript(s), showing the subjects studied and marks obtained.
- Two references are required with at least one academic. Professional references will be accepted if you have completed your qualifications over five years ago.
- Applicants may wish to include a CV (Resume) or evidence of professional registration as part of their application.
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents31600 GBP / year≈ 31600 GBP / year -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents13500 GBP / year≈ 13500 GBP / year
Additional Details
Part time UK: £6,750 per year
Part time International: £15,800per year
Living costs
London
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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Scholarships Information
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