Keele University Prospectus Postgraduate | 2016 | Page 61

Overview

Our MA in Medical Ethics and
Palliative Care aims to deepen
your understanding of healthcare
ethics and to enhance your ability
to think systematically about the
moral issues that may arise in
areas relevant to palliative care.
Teaching is provided by a unique
combination of healthcare ethics
and law academics from Keele
University and palliative care
specialists from the Marie Curie
Palliative Care Institute Liverpool.
Students attending this
programme come from a variety
of backgrounds and disciplines
that engage with end of life care,
including experienced medical
professionals, those involved in
healthcare management or policy
and those involved in wider care
aspects, such as chaplains.
The programme can be taken on
a full-time or part-time basis
and is available to intercalating
medical students.

Additional information
Teaching is delivered in short
intensive blocks of three days
per module, enabling those in
full-time employment to take the
course on a part-time basis over
two years and fit it around the
demands of their work, wherever
they are based. Between
the teaching blocks you will
undertake personal study based
on the materials presented and
discussed during the blocks and
write your assessed assignments.

You will be assigned a supervisor
to advise and support you in your
studies and dissertation either
in person or via email or phone.
If you choose to study full-time
you will attend the four teaching
blocks and write your dissertation
in one year.

Module titles

The MA programme consists of
four 30 credit taught modules
and a 60 credit 15,000 to 20,000
word dissertation. Students
completing their studies after
the taught modules achieve
a postgraduate diploma. The
module content reflects current
developments and is assessed
by a single essay assignment.
The following is a list of
indicative modules:
• Introduction to Ethics
and Palliative Care
• Autonomy, Paternalism
and Advance Care Planning
• Ethical Issues in Care
of the Dying
• Policy, Resource and Research
Ethics in Palliative Care
• Dissertation

Key Information

ETHICS

Medical Ethics
and Palliative Care

Course type
MA, postgraduate
diploma

Mode of study

Full-time or part-time

Entry
requirements

The course is open to all
those with either a first
or second-class honours
degree (2.2 or above),
or an overseas equivalent,
in a relevant subject or
appropriate professional
qualifications and/or
experience.
Applications are welcome
from people with a
professional or other
serious interest in medical
ethics and palliative care,
including (but not limited
to) doctors, nurses,
health care managers,
intercalating medical
students, radiographers,
chaplains, charity and
voluntary workers,
social workers, medical
and pharmaceutical
researchers, and
healthcare educators.
Applicants for whom
English is not a first
language must provide
evidence of a qualification
in the V