Palliative care training for healthcare professionals
16th May 2016
The Cicely Saunders Institute provides palliative care training for doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals through the MBBS and MSc programmes of King’s College London and through e-learning courses for healthcare professionals.
King’s College London has one of the longest established palliative care training programmes for undergraduates and postgraduates in the United Kingdom, and is the largest provider of healthcare education in Europe.
At postgraduate level, the Institute offers the MSc in Palliative Care. This is a multi-professional course that provides palliative care training for professionals from a wide range of clinical backgrounds, giving them the skills and knowledge to take the specialty forward.
Since the MSc course was established in 1999 over 400 trainee doctors in palliative medicine, general practitioners (family doctors), doctors and nurses working in oncology, haematology, nephrology, cardiology, neurology, respiratory medicine, and other professionals such as social workers, radiographers, psychologists, physiotherapists, pharmacists, music therapists and chaplains have successfully completed the MSc in Palliative Care.
Students come from the UK, Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia. A number of students have been funded by scholarships and bursaries from Cicely Saunders International.