Biomedical Sciences is an exciting course that is highly relevant to major issues facing society today. This broad and flexible programme ranges from genetics and molecular and cellular biology to integrated systems physiology, neuroscience and psychology. The course is truly interdisciplinary in nature with a number of departments contributing teaching, including Biochemistry, Experimental Psychology, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. In first year, you will get a strong foundation in all aspects of the subject. You will attend lectures, practical classes and tutorials that will introduce you to systems science (Body, Brain and Behaviour) and to cell biology (Cells, Molecules, Genes), as well as classes in essential physical, mathematical and statistical concepts to give you the confidence to work with primary literature later in the course.
The second year offers you a wide range of options within the subject, including psychological processes and disorders, neuroscience, cellular and systems physiology, genetics and developmental biology, pharmacology, cellular pathology and immunology. After second year, you can specialise and ultimately graduate with a degree in either Neuroscience or Cell and Systems Biology. You can choose to graduate after three years with a BA degree, or complete the research-intensive fourth year to gain an integrated Master’s degree.
As a Biomedical Science student at Univ, you are able to draw on the experience of tutors with a broad range of expertise to help you over the course of your studies. All College tutors in this course are active in research and are eager to introduce you to the excitement of the experimental medical sciences. There is a strong community amongst Biomedical Science students at Univ; students are supported in pursuing broad interests within the degree should they want to, but everyone remains part of a unified cohort.
Resources
If you are considering applying for Biomedical Sciences, a number of resources you might find useful to explore beyond the school curriculum can be found on Univ’s Staircase12 pages, including the Reading Bank and Resource Hub.