End-of-life and palliative medicine research master's degree
La Plateforme nationale pour la recherche sur la fin de vie is a partner of the Public Health Master's degree, M2 Research pathway - End of life and palliative medicine at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
This master's degree aims to provide training for a multidisciplinary audience from the biomedical and social sciences; it is thus aimed at students in health (nurses, doctors...), public health, humanities and social sciences, as well as professionals wishing to acquire research skills.
Description
Palliative care has been a medical and academic discipline since the 1980s in France. Created in 2014, this research master's in end-of-life and palliative medicine is aimed at students or professionals wishing to acquire scientific skills in the field of end-of-life care. It is a multidisciplinary master's program that mobilizes researchers and clinicians specializing in end-of-life issues in the humanities, social sciences and health sciences.
The training program teaches critical reading of scientific articles, problematization and formulation of a research question, fieldwork with a rigorous methodology, valorization of results; it also teaches how to discuss and listen to plural actors engaged in themes related to the end of life, and to situate the stakes of research with regard to fundamental questions concerning the meaning of the end of life, care or the social responsibility of the sciences. It aims to improve healthcare and support services for people at the end of life, their families and the bereaved.
Internship
The completion of an internship lasting a total of 4 months (consecutive or not) within a research team is compulsory.
The research team and the theme of the internship is validated upstream by the teaching team after interviews with the candidate. If necessary, the pre-registration interview can also be used to guide the candidate towards a research team in line with the candidate's interests and themes. The aim of the internship is to enable the candidate to gain a real insight into professional practice, and to benefit from a comprehensive apprenticeship in and through research. During this internship, the student must be supervised by an internship tutor who will follow the student's progress during the master's degree, guide his/her research work and the writing of his/her dissertation.
Practical information
The master's degree offers face-to-face courses at Maison Jeanne Garnier (Paris) and distance learning courses with attendance
obligatory.
Courses start in September, and the final defense of the research dissertation takes place 12 months later.
Validation of prior professional experience is offered to professionals who do not have an M1.
Training duration : 4 semesters
Teaching languages : French
Specifics and prerequisites
Students must have validated an M1. Validation of professional experience (VAPP) is also possible. The Master's pedagogical committee proposes a preliminary interview to all applicants to clarify the challenges of the course.
More information:
Path leaders
(for pedagogical information)
Sarah CARVALLO PLUS
sarah.carvallo@univ-lyon1.fr
Elise PERCEAU CHAMBARD
elise.perceau@univ-lyon1.fr
School contact
(for registrations)
Amandine TRUCHET
amandine.truchet@univ-lyon1.fr
Competence blocks
Epistemology
The course offers students an in-depth approach to positioning their research projects from an epistemological standpoint, fostering a critical understanding of theoretical foundations.
Literature review
- Understand the aims of a literature synthesis.
- Know the different types of literature synthesis and choose a methodology suited to the research question.
- Know how to identify databases of interest, understand the importance of grey literature.
- Know the existence and importance of reporting guidelines.
- Understand the importance of journal registries (PROSPERO type).
Main methodologies in end-of-life research
The training allows the student to have a diversified teaching of methodologies in research whether quantitative, qualitative or mixed.
Constructing a scientific project
- Knowing how to construct a research problem.
- Knowing how to choose and justify one's methodology.
- Know the material constraints of research (building a financial grid, obtaining funding, responding to calls for projects).
- Knowing how to respond to regulatory constraints
- Knowing how to write a research protocol
- Knowing how to adapt research tools to the research field
- Knowing how to implement a research project as a principal investigator
- Knowing how to collect data
Research ethics, regulations, Funding.
- Knowing and applying regulatory and material constraints
- Understanding and applying the issues of Scientific Integrity
- Understanding and applying research ethics
- Understanding the importance and conditions of Participatory Research
- Building a financial grid, obtaining funding, responding to calls for projects
- Knowing how to estimate feasibility, the resources required and documents for providing information or collecting consent or non-opposition from participants.
Valuing research
- Knowing how to adapt research tools to the research field
- Knowing how to participate in the life of a research team
- Knowing how to implement a research project as principal investigator :
- Learn to use professional communication networks (Orcid, research gate ..)
- Contribute to the laboratory's research activity (participate in the research of other members of research teams)
- Value your research work within the unit
- Learn how to present and critique a scientific article
Other skills
- Knowing how to analyze data and formulate results
- Knowing how to present and argue one's research project