Palliative Care

Why study Palliative Care at Dundee?

"Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and families who face life-threatening illness, by providing pain and symptom relief, spiritual and psychosocial support from diagnosis to the end of life and bereavement."WHO, 2002

The MSc Palliative Care will enable you to gain a wider understanding of delivering and managing challenges that relate to palliative care practice. As you study this course by distance learning, while continuing to work in your current healthcare role, you will be able to put the theory you learn into practice straight away.

"It has influenced my practice in many areas, improving the attention given to the palliative patients, at their homes, in primary care and at the emergency room at the hospital."
Student comment, 2012

The programme combines the expertise and experience of academics, clinicians and researchers across the School of Nursing and Midwifery, all of whom have extensive teaching and e-learning experience.

Cross cutting themes explored within the programme include:

• values and attitudes
• patient-centered interpersonal skills
• multi-professional team work
• ethical issues and decision making
• national and global political issues
• education for client and the practitioner
• questioning through research and evidence based practice
• quality assurance & audit

"I have enjoyed studying as an online student, which originally was very scary. My tutor and programme leader have been very supportive and guided me whenever I was lost, this experience has made me proud of the University of Dundee and I would encourage many students out there who can not get exclusive time for study to enrol on this distance learning Program, for they can receive every kind of support they require to succeed and achieve knowledge, skills and positive attitudes towards learning and finally a qualification!"Comment from student evaluation, 2012

This programme is designed for healthcare professionals (clinical professionals, allied health professionals, policy planners, general managers) working in a palliative care setting at a local, national or global level, including, for example an international charity, aid agency or Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), especially in low/medium income countries.

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