Study Details: MSc/PGDip/PGCert One year FT, two years PT
The MSc in Medicine, Health and Public Policy addresses the nature and policy implications of key developments in the fields of health and medicine from social scientific and ethical perspectives. It examines the political, economic, cultural and ethical dimensions of contemporary trends in medicine, the biosciences and health, in changing social and regulatory contexts, and at national and international levels.
A relevant UK honours degree of 2:1 standard or overseas equivalent. If an applicant possesses an undergraduate degree below 2:1 standard, subsequent postgraduate qualifications may be taken into account. Also desirable is evidence of active engagement in relevant activities and an attentive concern for the relationships between medicine, science and society demonstrated by reading and otherwise following current national and international issues.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/fees-and-funding/tuition-fees
Students may go on to pursue careers in academia, in the fields of policymaking, research, and regulation in the public and private sectors, in government agencies, think-tanks and in national and international NGOs. We collaborate closely with the Careers & Employability Office at King’s College London to enhance the employability of our students, and we organise targeted careers sessions with guest-speakers from relevant fields.
Core Modules (must be taken and passed)
The Politics of Health and Medicine (30 credits, term 1)
One of either:
Designing Quantitative Research for Social Science & Health, OR Designing Qualititative Research for Social Science & Health (15 credits, Term 2), OR Critical Policy Research (15 credits, term 2)
Compulsory Modules (must be taken)
7SSHM620 Foundations of Social Science, Health & Medicine (30 credits, term 1)
The module is designed to introduce students to the basic theories and concepts at the interface of social science, health & medicine. It is designed to create a mini-canon that all (non-gerontology) SSHM students will master before branching out into their respective programme-specific and specialist modules
PG Certificate and Diploma
Students registered for the PG Certificate take Medicine, Health and Society and a further 30 credits from compulsory and/or optional modules. PG Diploma students take all compulsory and core modules (except for the Dissertation) and optional modules to gain a total of 120 credits.
Students can select 30 – 35 credits of optional modules from within the Department or other Department’s within King’s College. The list below shows a sample of modules taught with the department (please note not all modules may run in any one year):
Foundations in Social Science, Health and Medicine – Required
Medicine, Health and Society – Required
Designing Quantitative Research for Social Science & Health OR Designing Qualitative Research for Social Science & Health – Required
Critical Policy Research – Required
Dissertation in Medicine, Health and Public Policy (MSc students only) – Required
Case Studies in Bioethics & Society – Optional
Global Health Ethics – Optional
Ageing in a Global Context – Optional
Ethics of Clinical Research – Optional
Pharmaceuticals & Society – Optional
Genomics & Society – Optional
Connecting Medicine, Science & Society – Optional
The Politics of Disaster & Emergencies – Optional
War, Memory & Mental Health – Optional
Psychiatry, Culture & Globalization – Optional
The Global Bioeconomy: State, Capital & Society – Optional
Designing Quantitative Research for Social Science & Health OR Designing Qualitative Research for Social Science & Health – Optional
Quantitative Data Analysis – Optional
Data Manipulation & Management – Optional
Researching Vulnerable Populations – Optional
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