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Palliative Care
|MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert
|Part Time, Full Time
| Admissions status: Open
Develop the skills necessary to appraise evidence based care and conduct research on issues of palliative care to inform clinical practice and service development. MSc and PG Dip: six modules plus research study project for MSc. PG Cert: three modules.
Department website: http://www.csi.kcl.ac.uk/
KEY BENEFITS
- The programme has a national and international reputation attracting students from all over the world.
- The programme is focused strongly on evidence and on understanding how to conduct research in palliative care and related areas.
- Teaching staff are key academics, practitioners and policy-makers in the field of palliative care. Visiting lecturers are drawn from across the UK and Europe.
- The programme is based at the new Cicely Saunders Institute, a WHO Collaborating Centre for palliative care which is at the heart of national and international research and academic-clinical collaborations.
KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Dr Jonathan Koffman
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
One year FT, January 2013 to December 2013, or two years PT, January 2013 to December 2014.
Location
Cicely Saunders Institute, Denmark Hill Campus; St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham, south London.
Student destinations
Many former SpRs now have consultant posts; many clinical nurse specialists are now nurse consultants. A number of former students have gone forward to study for PhDs and teach on the programme.
Year of entry 2013
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