Overview

You can utilise this course to embark on an exciting career in biomedical research or for entry into postgraduate health courses, including postgraduate medicine.The Bachelor of Biomedical Science offered at Victoria University course will provide you with a strong foundation in the medical sciences, and advanced laboratory skills through hands on practical experimentation and online interactive learning.

The new curriculum offers a quality syllabus that emphasises critical thinking and active learning via an inquiry team-based learning – a strategy producing skilled, knowledgeable and lifelong learners. In addition, you will build on intellectual, analytical, organisational, personal and interpersonal skills.

You will gain in-depth understanding of how the body works from the molecular level through to physiological functions. Students will expand and apply knowledge of human biomedical science, to the causes, diagnosis and treatment of disease at molecular, cellular and system levels. Core areas of study include:

• physiology

• anatomy

• biochemistry

• cell biology

• medical microbiology

• immunology

• molecular biology

• human genetics.

Careers in biomedical science

Job titles

• medical researcher

• scientific journalist

• medical laboratory scientist

• science laboratory specialist.