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 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 trained to study medicine or become a consultant biomedical scientist with experience.

Accreditation

This programme has been accredited by the Royal Society of Biology following an independent and rigorous assessment. Accredited degree programmes contain a solid academic foundation in biological knowledge and key skills, and prepare graduates to address the needs of employers. The accreditation criteria require evidence that graduates from accredited programmes meet defined sets of learning outcomes, including subject knowledge, technical ability and transferable skills. All students on Accredited programmes will receive free membership of the Royal Society of Biology.