Why study biomedical science ???

i kno what the course involves n the salary high but if asked in the interview why do you want to study biomedical sciences? what should i say??
thank you

orite people!!! I get that bit but I want to do it cus it interesting and cus I enjoy it - especially all the lab work! but I don’t know if that reason is sufficient enough :/

haha dont worry, i was thinking the same before my interview. but i just said stuff like, ive always been interested in the human anatomy, and im keen to learn more about it etc.

But isn't human anatomy more related to other medical fields?I thought biomedical science was all about microbiology and human diseases?

But isn't human anatomy more related to other medical fields?I thought biomedical science was all about microbiology and human diseases?

There are other area's which you can study in this course. The only place I've seen which does anatomy is Kings, no where else which I've applied to does it(although I would love to study this). But I would say anatomy is more medical related, yes

UCL does anatomy in the biomed course as well And you can take it further in the 2nd/3rd years to specialise into it if you want.

Tbh, with biomed (at UCL at least) you can pretty much do any medically related/biologically related area - and choose to specialise in it, or have a broad degree with lots of different topics.

I think the same is with kings, you get to choose any topic you want, I should have applied to UCL as a matter of fact, what were their entry requirements for biomed undergrad?

Tbh, with biomed (at UCL at least) you can pretty much do any medically related/biologically related area - and choose to specialise in it, or have a broad degree with lots of different topics.

Is UCL accredited? The IBMS is strict on the list of topics you have to cover to get HPC registration (so you can work in the NHS), so some accredited degrees - such as Lancaster, where I did mine, and I think Surrey - you get no choice of modules at all. If you swap one module for another, you don't get the required accreditation and have to take a top-up course before you can work in the NHS. Which sucked, because I really wanted to take more genetics instead of bloody developmental biology in my third year (zebrafish embryos, sod off already).

We did do anatomy in first year, though. But as far as I can tell, most of the accredited courses are heavy on the cell biology.

microbiology is just ONE part of biomed. anatomy is about the structure and function of the body, so obviously this you need to know first before you learn about diseases.

It's not accredited, no. I would hate to continue with the developmental biology we're doing in first year (we actually have an exam for this in the morning). First year is a bit of everything which you have to do, then I mean, from 2nd year onwards you can choose anything you want, genetics, cell biology, pharmacology, physiology, anatomy, even psychology, whatever.. you can mix them up (to a certain extent), or choose to specliase in a certain topic - one of the reasons I like it, the choice you get in what you wanna do.

Thing with accredited degrees, isn't that just for working as a biomedical scientist in the NHS? I mean, surely you can still work within the NHS as other roles. I don't want to work in labs as a scientist. In a non-accredited course there is nothing on analysing samples or anything (which I'm guessing you need in an accredited course, cause that's what you're gonna do in the job after), it's more research based. And I suppose there is a fair bit on cell biology btw.

It's been AAB for a while, but I believe some people had AAA offers last year - but the majority (I believe) had AAB. This year, it'll be either AAB/AAA, depending on things. But I'd say most likely AAB

Yeah, the accreditation is only needed for NHS biomed work, and some private labs ask for it too. It's horses for courses; I deliberately only applied for accredited courses, but it just depends on what you want to do when you graduate. I didn't really know what I wanted to go into afterwards, so figured it was best to keep my options open. For the same reason, it suited me that the accredited course forces you to do so much - I found that the subjects I enjoyed in first year (cell cycle and immunology), I HATED in second and third, and the ones I wasn't so keen on (cell signalling) I liked much more when we got into them in depth, so it was good for me that the course forced me to do everything otherwise I might have ended up specialising in something I didn't enjoy any more. And now I'm going into a job where I need to know a bit of everything, anyway.

Also, I get a free diary every year. :P

Wow, I completely wasted 2 applications then. I knew I wasn't good enough for oxford, and I wasnt going to go to surrey anyway, this would have been a great place to go and study. Theres no way I can change now is there?