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Course Overview

The Highlights

  • The course focuses on developing your practical laboratory skills, so you'll gain first-hand experience of lab work from year one
  • You'll also spend time honing your interpersonal skills and general employability, so you can move on to a diverse range of careers in clinical and public health laboratories, industry and research settings
  • We are currently seeking accreditation for this course from the Institute of Biomedical Science. Upon successful accreditation, the degree will fast-track your journey towards registration as a biomedical scientist with the Health and Care Professions Council
  • All of our teaching team are active researchers as well as teachers, so they will be able to share some of the latest findings and innovative thinking from the human health field.

This is a progressive, challenging course that focuses on the latest advances in medical research aimed at preventing ill-health and prolonging life. The devastating COVID-19 pandemic has increased demand for skills in this area, so this degree is highly relevant right now and you can expect to have strong career prospects.

Biomedical Science is a broad discipline of modern medical science. It is all about understanding human health and the diseases that affect the normal processes in the human body, including their diagnosis. On this degree, you'll gain the skills and knowledge to understand the operation of human organisms through subjects like clinical chemistry, immunology, microbiology, histology, clinical genetics, molecular biology, pathology and cancer biology.

Training you for Research

During the programme, you will gain an understanding of biomedical investigations, diagnosis, monitoring, and disease treatment. There's a strong focus on laboratory research and you will gain first-hand experience of this from year one. You will have access to a student research laboratory and regularly get the chance to conduct scientific investigations — sometimes in a group and sometimes on your own. You will also need to report your findings to others, including at a student conference attended by employers.

As well as giving you this practical experience, we will of course teach you the essential underpinning knowledge around research governance, ethics, and good scientific practice. In your final year, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate the research skills you have amassed, with an independent study into an area of your choice. This will be a lab-based study or one that uses clinical data.

Entry Requirement 

Academic Requirements:

Requirement What we're looking for
UCAS points 120
Specific requirements at A-level

At least a grade C or above in either Chemistry, Human Biology or Biology

Specific requirements at GCSE At least five GCSEs (or equivalent) including Maths and English at grade 4/C or above
IELTS 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)
Interview / Audition N/A
Portfolio N/A

Alternative entry qualifications:

  • BTEC - DDM
  • Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 credits: 45 at Level 3 with a minimum of Distinction: 15 Merit: 24 Pass: 6. Must include passes in compulsory Level 3 subjects

English Language Requirements:

IELTS: 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)

Fees

  Full-time Part-time
UK

£9250 per year

£1155 per 20 credit module

International/EU

£14045 per year

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This information was accurate on : 21/04/2021
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