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Medical Ethics
and Palliative Care
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 full-time, part-time or on a modular basis over up
to five years, and is available to intercalating medical students.
Teaching is delivered in short intensive blocks of three days per
module, enabling those in full-time employment to take the course
and fit it around the demands of work, wherever you 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 personal tutor 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.

Key Information
Course type

MA, postgraduate diploma

Mode of study
Part-time, full-time
or modular

Indicative entry
requirements

First or second class honours
degree or equivalent in
a relevant subject, or
appropriate professional
qualification and/or
experience.
For a list of full entry
requirements please visit
www.keele.ac.uk/pgtcourses

Contact email

[e-mail]

Indicative modules

The MA programme consists of four 30 credit taught modules
and a 60 credit 15-20,000 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.
All students take the following four taught 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

Did you
know?

Our MA in Medical Ethics and Palliative Care is the only
programme of its kind in the UK.

Jan Howard

Medical Ethics
and Palliative Care 2016

For more information please visit

keele.ac.uk/pg/medethicsandpallcare

I have worked in palliative care
clinically and in education for many
years. This course has enabled me
to challenge my own long established
views and beliefs as it has encouraged
reflection from several philosophical
and moral viewpoints. It is great fun
and is the best course I have ever
undertaken, despite the fact that
I now need to question everything!

Smart minds choose Keele

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