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Study Details: 1 Year
Are you a healthcare, emergency or urgent care professional who is considering venturing into the exciting and expanding field of Disaster Medicine? The MSc Disaster Medicine course expands the scope of your skills, enabling you to work as part of a disaster response team – delivering, planning and co-ordinating disaster and conflict healthcare.
Delivering healthcare to communities affected by disasters, be they natural or man-made, is an aspect of healthcare that is both demanding and immensely rewarding.This course will see you acquire the specific skills and expertise required to adapt and respond to the needs of communities when they are at their most vulnerable.
Designed by medical professionals with experience in disaster and conflict medicine, the course also provides you with the skills required to plan, manage and deliver a medical programme under challenging conditions, whilst also considering ethical, legal and logistical issues.
Applicants must hold a medically related qualification or have completed the penultimate year of a medical degree or relevant professional qualification
Applications from all candidates will be considered on their merits in the light of the nature and scope of the programme and if they have relevant experience such as armed forces
The skills and knowledge gained on this course can be usefully applied on short-term deployments to a disaster zone, or in employment with international relief agencies and organisations.
Intercalating medical students may use this qualification as the foundation for further study and specialist practice following qualification.
Core Modules:
Professional Project
Dissertation
Introduction to Disaster Medicine
Planning for Disasters
Co-ordination and Management of Disaster Response
Disaster Medicine in Extreme Environments
Public Health and Disasters
Research and Evidence Based Practice Methods
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