Cancer Care Innovation 

Cancer Care Innovation is a specialised award route in the UCL Graduate Programme in Health and Medical Sciences.

These routes are for students who wish to extend and update their knowledge in a broad range of areas relevant to their specialist domain. Students can signal their area of specialism within the broad field of health and medical sciences in the title of the award: Health and Medical Sciences (Cancer Care Innovation). This may be viewed as the equivalent of students on a broad programme having a major.

The cross-disciplinary, postgraduate study programme in Cancer Care Innovation has been designed for nurses, doctors, allied health professionals, and managers working within a healthcare setting. The aim is to gain a deeper understanding of the disease and the impact of the illness on individuals, and to examine evidence-based approaches to improve care for people with cancer.

The Cancer Care Innovation programme brings together the expertise of a number of departments at UCL - the Institute for Women's Health; Health Behaviour Research Centre and the Cancer Institute - and its partner hospitals to provide a rich and diverse curriculum which can be tailored to your professional development needs.

Students can opt to receive a solid grounding in cancer biology, examine traditional and emerging approaches to treatment and care, and learn how using research/evidence can drive innovative practice. Basic and translational research scientists, academic clinicians, nurses, educators and other multi-disciplinary professionals have worked collaboratively to develop the curriculum. 

Health and Medical Sciences (Cancer Care Innovation)

This named route is offered in 3 ways 

  • PG Cert Health and Medical Sciences (Cancer Care Innovation) 
    Research and Innovation in Practice (IfWHGO19) + 3 optional modules to a total of 60 credits
  • PG Dip Health and Medical Sciences (Cancer Care Innovation) 
    Research and Innovation in Practice (IfWHGO19) + 7 optional modules to a total of 120 credits
  • MSc Health and Medical Sciences (Cancer Care Innovation)
    Research and Innovation in Practice (IfWHGO19) + 7 optional modules + the dissertation module (CHMEGH97) to a total of 180 credits. The Dissertation topic must be related to Cancer Care Innovation and approved by the Programme Director.

For all of these awards students must take the core module Research and Innovation in Practice and they will select appropriate modules from the module library. Examples of other 15 credit modules that students are likely to find useful include:

  • Cancer biology (CINSG015)
  • Cancer therapeutic innovations (CINSG016)   
  • Behavioural approaches to cancer prevention, early diagnosis and survivorship (CINSG004)
  • Breast and reproductive cancers (IfWHGO14) 
  • Engaging patients in health care (IfWHG017)
  • Consent and confidentiality (IfWHG016)
  • Chronic illness from the health psychology perspective ( HPSYG001)

Each student will be supported in configuring a combination of modules appropriate to their professional needs.  At a later time we plan to introduce additional modules for example, Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Cancer Care.