Masters in Continuons and Palliative Care

General Objectives of the Course

Course goals are:
- To prepare specialized professionals in the area of continuing and palliative care and therefore improved health care quality and symptom relief in end of life.
- To develop and support scientific quality research in the area of continuing and palliative care.

Admission Requirements

Holders of a Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree or a legally equivalent qualification in the areas of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Psychology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sociology, Social Service, Healthcare Technology and Management, trained in Universities and other Portuguese higher education institutions or institutions with legally equivalent qualification.
After curricular appraisal by the Scientific Council may be accepted exceptionally as candidates and may also register other Bachelors already working in the provision of continuing and palliative care.

Candidates should check the admission requirements available on this site, in addition to the information provided here.

Professional Goals

This study cycle want to create the conditions for the development of a differentiated training that dowry students with skills in the area of Continuing and Palliative care. It also intend to promotes an increase in quality of professional practice, scientific research and in the different areas that it covers.

Mode of Study

Full-time, Face-to-face, Daytime

Teaching / Evaluation language(s)

Portuguese

Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

1. The curricular units’ assessment is quantitative, expressed on a 0-20 scale.
2. If the student fails one of the curricular units, it will be impossible to carry on to the second year.

Learning Objectives and Intended Skills

To recognise and justify interventions specificities in of continuing and palliative area in different period of life from childhood to elderly.
- To intervene effectively in order to provide pain and other symptoms relief.
- To effectively communicate with patients and their families, taking in account their social and personal specificities.
- To demonstrate team work capacities.
- To conceive a nurturing and caring quality plane to address the needs of patients with chronic, advanced and progressive disease enhancing quality of life.
- To demonstrate ethical reflection and good review of complexes issues related with clinical practice in continuing and palliative care.
- To prepare a proposal to create, organize and evaluate a continuing and palliative care service.
- To evaluate different organizational and management proposals of a Continuing and palliative care service, and justify their options.

Course Coordinator(s)

José Manuel Borges Nascimento Costa
uc12934@uc.pt

Marilia Assunção Rodrigues Ferreira Dourado
mdourado@fmed.uc.pt

ECTS Departmental Coordinator(s)

Maria Joana Lima Barbosa Melo
uc16360@uc.pt

Recognition of Prior Learning

In accordance with Article 45 of the Decree-law nº 74/2006, of 24th March, and further legislation by the Decree-Law nº 107/2008, of 25th June.

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

Decree-Law nº 74/2006, of 24th March, amended and re-published by DL nº 107/2008, of 25th June; Ordinance nº782/2009, of 23rd of July

Graduation Requirements

The Master's degree requires the successful completion of all units of study in the study plan, as well as the successful defence of a dissertation, totalling 120 ECTS. Successful completion of the first two semesters’ units of study, corresponding to 60 ECTS, confers the student with a Postgraduate Diploma in Continuons and Palliative Care.

Access to Further Studies

The MSc in Continuing and Palliative Care will give access to the PhD programs.

Study Programme

Continuous and Palliative Care

Academic year
2019-2020

Course Type
2nd Cycle Studies - Advanced Specialisation Master Programme

DGES Code: M657

Qualification Awarded: Mestre

Duration: 2 Year(s)

ECTS Credits: 120.0

Category: Advanced specialization second cycle

Applications

Call for Applications

Calendar

1st Semester: Start date: 02-09-2019
End date: 13-12-2019
2nd Semester: Start date: 10-02-2020
End date: 29-05-2020

Accreditations

Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior: 2018-07-31 a 2022-07-30
Direcção Geral de Ensino Superior: 2013-02-11