Palliative Care: Global Perspectives - 2012 entry
MSc
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PGDip
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PGCert
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* This course is subject to validation by the university.
Overview
Oxford Brookes pioneered the development of Palliative Care education with a Diploma in Palliative Care in 1991. Since then we have developed a number of Palliative Care courses, and this MSc in Palliative Care: Global Perspectives is another pioneering development, opening Palliative Care education to a Global market.
This multiprofessional degree is offered as an online distance learning course and is open to a wide range of practitioners including nurses, social workers, doctors, therapists and others working with people who have 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 their families. This will develop you as a confident and knowledgeable practitioner, with a range of critical skills and abilities, who will be able to lead and develop Palliative Care services wherever your practice is based, responding to local cultural, professional and economic factors.
Other study options
We offer a range of Cancer and Palliative Care courses. For more details, go to our website: www.hls.brookes.ac.uk/courses/cancer-palliative-care
Why Brookes?
- 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: www.brookes.ac.uk/studying/life/wellbeing
- We have an excellent track record of high levels of student satisfaction, low student attrition rates and high employability.
In detail
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Course content
The programme aims to enable you to develop an advanced level of theoretical and professional understanding of Palliative Care, within the context of its development as a Global speciality. It achieves this through a critical exploration of the principles of Palliative Care and other relevant theoretical models, the evidence base for practice, and social, cultural and policy studies.
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 they comprise the PGDip:
- Death and Dying: Global Perspectives
- Psychosocial Palliative Care
- Advanced Symptom Management
- Advanced Research Design
- Evidence-based Practice
- Mastering Professional Practice
Teaching, learning and assessment
Each module centres on guided online learning activities and self-directed study along the module themes. This involves a mixture of learning activities on each module, including: text-based learning activities; Podcasts, which can be downloaded and listened to at a time of your choosing; online seminar presentations; online tutorials; and chatroom activity, enabling you and other students to engage with each other as an online learning community. As the aim is to recruit students from diverse International settings, the opportunity to explore student interaction in the virtual environment will be optimised. We encourage the use of critical reflection as a personal and interpersonal learning process.
Assessment methods differ from module to module, but typically include a mixture of project work, reflective logs and essays.
Oxford is a well-known centre of educational excellence, and there are also world-class centres for the delivery of Palliative Care, for example, Sobell House Hospice and Helen and Douglas House, pioneering centres for the care of children and young adults. We have involved local experts in the development and delivery of this course. If you are able to visit the UK during your course of study, there may also be opportunities to visit these specialist centres.
As Palliative Care is often a point of transition from Cancer Care, the course team has close links with the MSc in Cancer Studies and the research team led by Professor Eila Watson, the HRH Prince Sultan Chair in Cancer 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 through research are firmly embedded within the curriculum.
Distance learning
This online distance learning course provides exciting opportunities if you want to study to an advanced level in a stimulating and dynamic online environment. The course encourages students to engage in an online community of tutors and students, and provides opportunities to learn from other students and from experts in the field of Palliative Care.
Career prospects
Maintaining lifelong learning is critical to practitioners in health and social care. If you are to be an effective evidence-based practitioner, it is important to ensure that you are always up-to-date and have the appropriate knowledge and skills to deliver quality care and support to patients and their families. Undertaking this postgraduate course offers will give you considerable advantages in seeking better employment and developing your career. Palliative Care services offer a wide range of opportunities to practitioners, managers, researchers and educationalists in this field of care and many of our students have gone on to take up senior roles in Palliative Care.
Key facts
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Faculty
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Department
Department of Clinical Health Care
Course length
Full-time: MSc: 12 months
Part-time: MSc: up to 3 years. For PGDip and PGCert, please contact the Programme Administrator.
Teaching location
Distance learning
Start date
September
2012
January
2013
UKPASS code
33528
Apply / Entry reqs
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Entry requirements
Applicants for the postgraduate course in Palliative Care will normally be health or social care professionals with Palliative Care experience. In addition, you should:
- Hold a UK honours degree or equivalent overseas degree from a recognised institution.
- If you do not hold a first degree or equivalent, you will be required to submit an assignment which will be taken into account as part of your application.
- Have good and reliable access to the internet, through a broadband connection.
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.
Please also see the university's standard English language requirements.
English language requirements for visas
If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Border Agency's minimum language requirements as well as the university's requirements. Find out more about English language requirements.
How to apply
You apply for this course through UKPASS.
Applications received electronically through UKPASS will be forwarded directly to the Programme Administrator. Supporting documentation should be forwarded using the email addresses indicated on the UKPASS application form.
International applicants will:
- need to apply early to allow enough time for obtaining visas if offered a place
- be asked to pay a deposit of £1,000 to secure a place on the course.
Applications are dealt with on a first come, first served basis, so please act early to avoid disappointment.
Conditions of acceptance
When you accept our offer you agree to the conditions of acceptance. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
Credit transfer
Oxford Brookes operates the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). All postgraduate single modules are equivalent to 10 ECTS credits, double modules to 20 ECTS credits, and treble modules to 30 ECTS credits. A full master's course will carry 90 ECTS credits. More about ECTS credits.
Fees / funding
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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
Fees (part-time and full-time) are for the academic year starting in 2012 only, unless otherwise stated. Fees increase annually by approximately 4%.
Questions about fees?
Contact Student Finance on:
+44 (0)1865 483088
finance-fees@brookes.ac.uk
Scholarships and funding
A limited number of scholarships are offered by Oxford Brookes University. Applicants who have been offered a full-time place on this master’s course are eligible to apply for the following scholarships.
John Henry Brookes Scholarship
The John Henry Brookes Scholarship is awarded to home/EU and international applicants for academic excellence. Each scholarship will be paid towards the tuition fee for a taught master's degree. The awards do not include a maintenance grant.
Funding
If you are a UK applicant you may be eligible for funding or sponsorship to undertake the course through your local strategic health authority, your employer, or another source (Note: These sources are not open to international applicants). Self-funding applicants are also welcome to apply.
General sources of information about finance and financial support for international applicants can be found at: www.brookes.ac.uk/international/finance
All applicants (UK, EU and international) will be required to provide details of their funding arrangements prior to enrolment on the course.
For general sources of financial support, see:
Support
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Support for students studying Palliative Care: Global Perspectives
All our courses adopt a student-centred approach to teaching and learning and are strongly focused on encouraging you to attain your full potential as lifelong learners. There is a range of support mechanisms for students, such as academic advisers, who will facilitate your academic development.
The university’s support services include Upgrade, which provides advice on study skills such as planning and writing essays, assignments and dissertations, research, or preparing for an exam. They also give advice on statistics and maths. There is a dedicated Student Disability and Dyslexia Service, which provides support for students with disabilities including sensory and mobility impairments, dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties, mental health problems and medical conditions.
EU/International students
The university provides a comprehensive range of support networks and services to EU/international students. For more information, go to www.brookes.ac.uk/international/support
How Brookes supports postgraduate students
Supporting your learning
From academic advisers and support co-ordinators to specialist subject librarians and other learning support staff, we want to ensure that you get the best out of your studies.
Personal support services
We want your time at Brookes to be as enjoyable and successful as possible. That's why we provide all the facilities you need to be relaxed, happy and healthy throughout your studies.
Research
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Departmental research highlights
The department hosts the prestigious HRH Prince Sultan Chair in Cancer Care. This is a very exciting aspect of our research portfolio, as it enables us to play a leading role in research development and education to improve the experience of patients undergoing cancer treatment and Palliative Care.
Research excellence
We are very pleased with the results received in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). 70% of our research in Allied Health Professions and Studies was rated as being of international significance in the assessment of research, of which 10% was rated as world-leading. The university has been careful to nurture emerging research strengths, and the international standing achieved by subjects allied to health demonstrates significant progress since 2001.
For more details about our research portfolio, go to our website
We have a number of promising and senior, experienced researchers working in established areas including Cancer and Palliative Care, Children and Families, Drugs and Alcohol, Physical Rehabilitation and Enablement and Interprofessional Education & Collaborative Practice. Over the past few years, these researchers have won external research and consultancy contracts including grants, fellowships and studentships for NHS staff. Our research staff collaborate with researchers from across Oxford Brookes University and from the Institute of Health Sciences at Oxford University, along with research teams from many other UK and International centres.
