2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue

MA Biomedical and Health Care Ethics Part-time

Total credits: 180

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

IDEA Centre, School of PRHS

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of PRHS

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Philosophy Benchmark statement;
Medicine Benchmark statement.

Programme specification:

By the end of the programme students should:

1. be able to engage in reasoned discussion of often highly charged issues and sensitive topics with others who may not share their views: including colleagues, patients and patients' families;
2. be able to identify the underlying issues in a debate, to analyse complex problems, to detect what is relevant and also what is conceptually problematic;
3. display openness and independence of mind: be receptive to new ideas, rediscoveries and insights and be able to subject them to critical appraisal;
4. be able to analyse philosophical texts, historical as well as contemporary, and to apply the analyse to current ethical issues in health care;
5. display knowledge and understanding of ethical theories and arguments and to draw on this understanding in their study of current ethical issues in health care;
6. be able to examine central concepts and distinctions in moral philosophy and to appreciate the problems to which they give rise in the context of health care.

Graduates from this programme find or resume careers in medical, nursing or health related professions, often teaching or on committees involved in health policy issues. There is increasing call for ethics training for health professionals and ethics committee members, and graduates are sought after. A number of graduates from the course proceed on to further degrees in the field.

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[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

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Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

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