Program Overview
The Medical Science Extended Major prepares students for various careers in health and biomedical sciences. It provides a deep understanding of human health and disease mechanisms, offering specializations for in-depth knowledge and job readiness. Students benefit from expert educators, cutting-edge facilities, and a vibrant cohort experience. This degree aligns with UWA's health professional degrees and offers potential career paths in clinical professions, research, and medical diagnostics.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Medical Science Extended Major is a program designed to provide students with the essential preclinical knowledge to prepare them for a broad range of careers in health and biomedical science-related fields. It focuses on the mechanisms of health and human disease, offering multiple specializations in biomedical disciplines to enable breadth and depth of learning.
Objectives:
- Gain in-depth understanding of how the human body functions in health and disease.
- Develop essential skills that impact the health of people in our communities.
- Choose a specialization to gain expertise in the field, ensuring job-readiness.
Program Description:
- The program is delivered by award-winning educators and researchers, supporting students to think critically and creatively.
- Students take a set of core units in Levels 1 and 2, along with their chosen specialization units.
- In Level 3, students complete their specialization units plus two body systems units.
- The program is taught in cutting-edge laboratories and teaching spaces by world-class researchers.
- Students learn from and network with leading biomedical scientists.
- The program fosters an exceptional cohort feel and student experience.
Careers:
- This degree could lead to careers as a clinical or health professional, or a medical scientist and researcher.
- Potential career paths include:
- Medical practitioner (postgraduate studies required)
- Dentist (postgraduate studies required)
- Podiatrist (postgraduate studies required)
- Pharmacist (postgraduate studies required)
- Optometrist (postgraduate studies required)
- Genetic Counsellor (postgraduate studies required)
- Audiologist (postgraduate studies required)
- Medical/Biomedical researcher
- Medical scientist (diagnostics)
- Microbiologist
Other:
- Medical Science can only be taken as a degree-specific major in the Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised).
- The program articulates with UWA’s health professional degrees.
- Clinical medicine at UWA is ranked 3rd in Australia and 35th in the world (ARWU 2022).
- UWA is ranked first in Western Australia and places in the top 100 of universities globally (QS 2023).
