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MSc

Pain Management

The MSc Pain Management has a unique focus on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to pain management and service provision.

How to apply

Key Course Details

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Online

Fees

On completion of the online Pain Management course, you will be able to extend the knowledge of research methods and application to practice at MSc level and demonstrate an ability to use knowledge to adapt professional practice to meet the changing demands of health care systems.

DESIGNED FOR

The course will enable more health care professionals to have the required knowledge to treat patients, developing problem-solving and clinical skills.

In Partnership With

  • Learna | Diploma MSc

Career Paths

  • Health Care Professional

Skills Taught

  • Research
  • Evaluation
  • Problem solving
  • Leadership

Module Overview

Research Methodologies and Critical Appraisal: Pain Management

The module will help students recognise, understand, interpret and apply methods used in healthcare research and critically appraise the various methodologies in Pain Management research thus developing leadership skills.

Professional Project: Pain Management

You will develop an ability to critically evaluate areas of professional practice; critically appraise specific areas of clinical, research and organisational practice; develop skills in independent research and study and skills relevant to scientific publications.

In partnership with

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Typical qualification requirements:

Admission to the course is typically through the following qualifications:

  • First degree or equivalent (including international qualifications).
  • Relevant professional healthcare (e.g. doctor, nurse) qualifications.

Those without recognised qualifications will be considered on an individual basis and a wide range of prior experience may be taken into account.

International applications welcomed:

We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.

English language requirements

International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.

Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.

If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.

If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.

Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

 

We're here to help

Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.

 

Fees and Funding

Further Information

Please refer to our collaborative partner's website.

Additional Costs

As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment. 

* Obligatory

 

University Quality Assurance

At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.

If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.

Course Highlights

How you’ll learn

Students are expected in the first 8 weeks to interact with their tutor on a weekly basis. You will then select a specific project and submit a project summary/proposal (approximately 1,500 words).

Once the proposal has been approved, the professional project (10,500 words) itself is then completed through online guidance and supervision offered by the tutor.

Teaching staff

The student and tutor will interact regularly (weekly) on the dedicated students/tutor discussion area or through any other means of communication deemed appropriate by both parties (telephone/SKYPE/email).

Facilities

As part of your online studies you will have access to the Learning Resources Centre materials. FINDit is the University’s portal which allows you to search for over 13,000 full-text journal articles, news articles, conference proceedings and approximately 160 databases. Interactive study skills modules are available to study via Blackboard to enable you to utilise the library services fully.

Careers and Employability

Careers Support

Next Steps

Visit the Learna Website

How to apply

If you're ready to apply for this course, the next step is to complete your application through our delivery partner, Learna Ltd. While this course is validated by the University of South Wales, all applications are processed directly by Learna. Please visit the Learna website, where you’ll find detailed instructions on how to apply, including the required documentation and key deadlines. By applying through Learna, you'll be taking the first step toward joining a flexible and high-quality learning experience designed to fit around your commitments.

Learna website