Course summary
End-of-life healthcare decisions create challenging ethical dilemmas for practitioners, patients and families. Issues around duty of care, autonomy and consent, treatment purpose or medication costs can arise when managing symptoms and reducing pain. Our MA will give you a deeper, more systematic understanding of these issues, their moral and legal considerations. You’ll engage with current academic literature and latest research, learning from real and hypothetical case studies and news stories, discussing them among your peers. Designed for graduates and working professionals, it can be studied over one, two or five years in short, intensive teaching blocks. Why choose this course?
- A pioneer in medical ethics and law education, Keele’s programmes are among the longest-running in the UK, delivered continuously since 1987
- Flexible block teaching delivery (typically three days) to allow you to study and work full-time with essay-based assessment (no exams)
- Enjoy rich ethical debates with a diverse student cohort, which over the years has included professionals from medical, legal, religious, voluntary, social, education, and media backgrounds
- Taught by trained philosophers, educators and lawyers
Modules
For information regarding modules for this course, please visit the course page on the Keele University website.
Entry requirements
ACADEMIC ENTRY REQUIREMENTS The MA in Medical Ethics and Palliative Care is open to graduates with a first or second class honours degree (or foreign equivalent) in a relevant subject, or appropriate professional qualifications and/or experience. ENGLISH LANGUAGE ENTRY REQUIREMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS - IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component. The University also accepts a range of internationally recognised English tests. Students who have graduated from a country where English is the first language and the degree was taught and assessed in English are not normally required to take an IELTS or other English language test. If you do not meet the English language requirements, the University offers a range of English language preparation programmes. During your degree programme you can study additional english language courses. This means you can continue to improve your English language skills and gain a higher level of English. INTERCALATING MEDICAL STUDENTS - We welcome applications from undergraduate medical students who have the option to take an intercalated year. To take the MA in Medical Ethics and Law as an intercalated year, you must normally have completed the fourth year of a medical degree. To ensure the course is completed within one year, you must study the MA in Medical Ethics and Law as a full time student.
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Keele University
Keele
ST5 5BG