MSc/PGDip/PGCert Health Sciences Open Award

Overview

Our MSc Health Sciences Open Award allows you to build a bespoke Master’s degree. You can access a wide range of modules across the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences and combine these into an MSc pathway. The course offers opportunities for:

  • work-based learning
  • bringing professional expertise and academic knowledge into dialogue.

We work closely with major charities such as Macmillan Cancer Support. And teaching staff are at the cutting edge of professional development in the sector.

You'll have access to a world-class academic community and invaluable resources, such as the Radcliffe Science Library. Our location gives you access to health care settings with international reputations for excellence and innovation. These include:

  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Oxford Health NHS Foundation NHS Trust.

You can gain credits from Oxford Brookes as well as from other recognised institutions. You can also gain credit for projects taken in the workplace.

Career prospects

Post-qualifying education in your health or social care field may allow you to take on more senior roles at work, and may improve your prospects and options for promotion and progression.

Students can also exit with Pgdip/PgCert awards.

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Modules

  • Advanced symptom management
  • Applied cancer biology
  • Applied research methods
  • Communicable diseases and public health
  • Death and dying: global perspectives
  • Disability: individual and global perspectives
  • Epidemiology
  • Finance in health & social care
  • Human resource management in health and social care
  • Leadership in health and social care
  • Living with cancer in contemporary society
  • Management of minor injuries
  • Non-medical prescribing
  • Occupational therapy: new perspectives
  • Palliative care for children and their families.
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    £14,900 Per Year

    International student tuition fee

    1 Year

    Duration

    Sep 2024

    Start Month

    Aug 2024

    Application Deadline

    Upcoming Intakes

    • September 2024
    • September 2025
    • September 2026

    Mode of Study

    • Full Time