Bachelor of Biomedicine
Bachelor of Biomedicine
The Biomedicine degree includes core subjects and 15 majors to choose from. This provides you with the foundations for a broad range of professional health pathways. Core second and third year subjects – available only to you as a Biomedicine student. The two second year integrated subjects emphasise the relationships…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Biomedicine degree includes core subjects and 15 majors to choose from. This provides you with the foundations for a broad range of professional health pathways. Core second and third year subjects – available only to you as a Biomedicine student. The two second year integrated subjects emphasise the relationships between different biomedical disciplines – it’s about enhancing your understanding of the human body in its full complexity. In third year the core subjects take on a more clinical (Molecules to Malady) or Population (Frontiers in Biomedicine) focus, tying all the elements of your Biomedicine journey together. The Bachelor of Biomedicine is ideal preparation for a career in medicine and professional health. While one third of our graduates enter the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program at this university – representing over half of the domestic intake for the MD – even more choose another graduate course at Melbourne. Completing the Bachelor of Biomedicine has never been a compulsory or privileged path to the Doctor of Medicine (MD), it’s a good strategy – especially when you’re following your passion. The Melbourne Medical School (MMS) aims to recognise prior knowledge for core content. So, if you’ve studied the Bachelor of Biomedicine this frees you up so that you’ll have more time to explore the clinical, research and discovery tracks and create your own distinct path. You’ll be able to take full advantage of the innovative MD curriculum by jumping higher and faster.
Outcomes: The Bachelor of Biomedicine has the flexibility to deliver a range of outcomes. Students are more frequently selected into the Melbourne Medical program than those from any other program in Australia. Others follow pursuits such as dentistry, biomedical research or bioengineering, and a small but growing number combine the degree with graduate law, commerce or management.
This degree lays the foundation for new generations of biomedical experts to lead the revolution in medicine. With the School of Biomedical Sciences receiving more than $56 million in research funding annually, your postgraduate opportunities to help advance human health across the globe are extensive. Laying the foundations: The Biomedicine degree includes extensive core subjects covering a broad range of professional health pathways. For example, in second year, the prerequisite content for the Doctor of Physiotherapy and Doctor of Dental Surgery in anatomy, biochemistry and physiology is built into two unique subjects and taught alongside a wide range of other biomedical science disciplines. This integration emphasises the relationships between different biomedical disciplines and enhances your understanding of the human body in its full complexity. Core third-year subjects, available only to you as a Biomedicine student, take on a more clinical (Biomedicine: Molecules to Malady) or population (Frontiers in Biomedicine) focus, tying together the elements of your biomedicine journey.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
