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FlexiMasters in Holistic Palliative Care

FlexiMasters in Holistic Palliative Care

The FlexiMasters in Holistic Palliative Care supports the growing demand for professional training and manpower development in the palliative care industry, which includes palliative care in hospices, at patient’s home, and healthcare institutions. Palliative care services would include both terminal and end-stage chronic disease patients.

Course Academic UnitCourse Date
MD6101 Foundation of Palliative Medicine34 Aug – 31 Oct 2025
MD6102 Foundation of Psychosocial Care and Thanatology310 Nov – 20 Feb 2025
MD6103 Foundation of Palliative Care in Practice32 Mar – 29 May 2026
MD6201 Advanced Palliative Medicine23 Aug – 30 Oct 2026
MD6202 Advanced Psychosocial Care and Thanatology2
9 Nov 2026 – 19 Feb 2027
MD6203 Advanced Palliative Care in Practice21 Mar – 28 May 2027

 

  • All courses are approved for SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) course fee funding

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Each course is assigned with an academic unit (AU) number, which indicates the amount of learning undertaken and the depth of learning involved. Assessments will be conducted and participants will be graded based on their performance in the assessment. Each completed course is stackable to the FlexiMasters Certificate.

The Holistic Palliative Care Programme (HoPE) is a part-time postgraduate course that is designed to be stackable, so that participants can accumulate their AU along a single training pathway, requiring a minimum GPA of 2.5 (equivalent to a letter grade of C+) or higher. This allows them to graduate with a Graduate Certificate (9 AUs), FlexiMasters (15 AUs) and a Master of Science (MSc) degree in palliative care (15 AUs). Such a stackable programme provides the flexibility to meet different learning needs by allowing participants to exit and re-enter the training pathway within the maximum duration period of each sub-programme (refer to Table 1). The entire training pathway needs to be completed between 3.5 and 7 years.

Table 1. Programme Duration and Academic Units

Programme Title Minimum duration of
completion (year) 		Maximum duration of
completion (year) 		No of AUs  Accumulated AUs
Graduate Certificate in
Holistic Palliative Care 		1 2 9

9 
(after successful completion of the Graduate Certificate)

FlexiMasters in
Holistic Palliative Care 		1 2 6

15
(after successful completion of the Graduate Certificate and FlexiMasters)

MSc in Holistic Palliative Care 1.5 3 15

30 
(after successful completion of the Graduate Certificate, FlexiMasters and Master’s)


Note: The AUs are cumulative as participants progress along the compulsory pathway from Graduate Certificate to FlexiMasters to Master’s programme, i.e. 9 AU + 6 AU + 15 AU. Eligible participants who have successfully accumulated a total of 30 AU will be conferred the Master’s degree in Holistic Palliative Care (HoPE).

 


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