MA in the Ethics of Cancer and Palliative Care

 

Who is it for

This flexible part-time course is designed for Doctors, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals seeking to examine the complex ethical arguments and legal problems that exist in cancer and palliative care practice today, enhancing their ability to think systematically about the moral issues involved. The course engages both the philosophical and practice based difficulties encountered in this challenging area.

 

About the course 

Year one consists of four modules, delivered in short intensive 3 day teaching blocks by the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute at the Marie Curie Hospice, Liverpool. This innovative structure proves particularly popular with health care professionals in full time employment as it allows students to combine study with full time work and other commitments.  It also enables students who are based all over the UK and even the world, to attend.

Modules

• Module 1: Ethics and Palliative Care
• Module 2: Autonomy, Paternalism & Consent
• Module 3: Quality of Life, Death & Dying
• Module 4: Contemporary Issues in the Ethics of Cancer & Palliative Care

 

Where does it lead?

Participants may, on reaching a satisfactory standard, transfer to a MA in Medical Ethics (Cancer and Palliative Care) offered by Keele University. One intake per year commencing in September.  Alternatively, there is the opportunity to use the credits gained from these modules as part of the MSc in Medical Science at the University of Liverpool.

 

When

The next module will commence on Wednesday 20th October 2010.  To register an interest in this course, please contact Stephen Mason.