Outstanding PTES scores for the Institute’s MSc in Palliative Care
30th July 2018
King’s College London is delighted to announce outstanding scores for student satisfaction of 100% for the MSc in Palliative Care programme at the Cicely Saunders Institute. Director of the Institute, Professor Irene Higginson saluted the achievements of module leaders, teaching staff, administrators and the rest of the team at the Institute who have worked so hard to ensure that students receive the best learning experience and achieve their full potential from the course.
The MSc in Palliative Care is a multi-professional course, jointly developed by King’s College London and St Christopher’s Hospice and specifically designed to appeal to future leaders of palliative and end of life care. The aim of the course is to help students develop the skills necessary to appraise research and evidence on palliative care, and to improve clinical practice and lead services.
The Palliative Care MSc enables palliative care professionals from a wide range of clinical backgrounds and career paths to synthesise their experience in the context of palliative care, develop their skills and knowledge, develop their careers and take the specialty forward.
Since the MSc course was established in 1998 students have included trainee doctors in palliative medicine, general practitioners (family doctors), doctors and nurses working in oncology, haematology, nephrology, cardiology, neurology and respiratory medicine. Other professions have included social workers, radiographers, psychologists, physiotherapists, pharmacists, music therapists and chaplains.
Students have come from all over the world: UK, Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia.
More information about the MSc in Palliative Care, and the other education programmes at the Institute is on the King’s website here.