This course is designed to enhance your knowledge of biological and medical sciences to enable understanding and to analyse the basis of human disease.

It will involve the study and knowledge of the human body, to conduct medical research on a variety of common health conditions.

There are various areas to specialise in for example, genetics, microbiology, and immunology.

The course will prepare you for the required skills needed to become a biomedical scientist, such as practical skills for performing the research to make a breakthrough.

These include:

• technical skills for maintaining high tech machines and equipment
• communications skills to report on the results of the patient’s samples
• analytical skills for reviewing test results
• numeracy skills for analysing statistics and data 
• organisational skills, providing a methodical approach to prioritise workloads based on urgency.

You will be well trained to study medicine or become a consultant biomedical scientist with experience.

Upon successful completion of the BSc in Biomedical Sciences, you may be equipped to pursue a wide range of careers in healthcare, working in the NHS, medical research laboratories and/or teaching in academia, pharmaceutical research, biomedical product marketing.

You may decide to pursue a medicine or dentistry degree.