Bachelor of Medical Sciences
MESC07
Faculty:
Faculty of Science
Department:
Department of Biological Sciences
Award:
Bachelor of Medical Sciences (BMedScs)
Study Mode:
Full-time, Part-time
Attendance Mode:
Internal
Candidature Length:
Full-time: 3 years
Study Period Offerings:
Session 1 (March), Session 2 (August)
General requirements:
| Minimum number of credit points for the degree | 72 |
| Minimum number of credit points at 200 level or above | 42 |
| Minimum number of credit points from Medical Sciences designated units | 60 |
| Minimum number of credit points at 300 level or above designated as Medical Sciences units | 21 |
| Completion of a designated People unit | |
| Completion of a designated Planet unit | |
| Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below |
Note:
Students must complete one designated People unit and one designated Planet unit. One of those units must be taken outside the Department administering the program of study which the student is admitted to, and the other unit must be taken outside the Faculty administering the program of study which the student is admitted to. Units which are already a required unit of the student's program of study will not satisfy the People unit requirement or Planet unit requirement.
In order to graduate students must ensure that they have satisfied all of the general requirements of the award: see the general requirements listed above.
Specific minimum requirements:
Credit points
100 level
Required
either
or
or
Organic and Biological Chemistry - The Chemistry of Life (3)
3
Foundations of Chemical and Biomolecular Sciences 1 (3)
Required
6cp from
Foundations of Chemistry (3)
General Chemistry (3)
Foundations of Chemical and Biomolecular Sciences 2 (3)
Anatomical Sciences 1: Introduction (3)
Anatomical Sciences 2: Anatomy of Limbs and Back (3)
Mathematics IE (3)
Mathematics IA (Advanced) (3)
Mathematics IA (3)
Introduction to Psychology I (3)
6
Introduction to Psychology II (3)
200 level
Required
12cp from
Genetics (3)
Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biology (3)
Systems Physiology (3)
Neurophysiology (3)
Analysis and Measurement (3)
Microbiology and Molecular Biology (3)
Synthesis (3)
Organic Synthesis (3)
Chemical Analysis I (3)
Microbiology (3)
Molecular Biology (3)
Anatomical Sciences 3: Anatomy of the Head, Neck and Trunk (3)
Anatomical Sciences 4: Neuroanatomy (3)
Developmental Psychology (3)
Biopsychology and Learning (3)
12
Bioethics and Biotechnology (3)
300 level
Required
3cp from
Biological Sciences Capstone (3)
C
Chemistry Capstone (3)
C
3
Biomolecular Sciences Capstone (3)
C
Required
15cp from
Neuroethology (3)
Parasitology (3)
Human Genetics Theory (3)
Symbiosis in Health and Disease (3)
Advanced Human Physiology (3)
Medicinal Chemistry (3)
Molecular and Medical Biotechnology (3)
Functional Proteomics (3)
Medical Microbiology (3)
Molecular Biology and Genomics (3)
Biochemistry and Cell Biology (3)
Radiographic Physics, Practice and Protection (3)
Neuropsychology (3)
Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience (3)
15
Biostatistics and Epidemiology (3)
Balance of credit points required:
15
Electives
TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM
72
Note:
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.