Is Biomedical science a good career to get into?

Biomed is a good starting point for a biology career. The career path depends a lot on what you want to do though; whether it's the research side (which is pretty broad in itself) or the clinical side (what people traditionally see as Biomed science, running tests as part of the medical service), and also depends on the particular field you'd like to get into at the end.

The career path is broad to such an extent that there's no real way you can know what you want beforehand, some things that you'd think would be interesting turn out to be really dull and vice versa. Just keep a note on what you enjoy and what you don't throughout the degree to make a decision on the sort of career you want.

Nice advice, would you say that it is a course which is a step down for medics? I get a bit annoyed when medicine applicants apply for a couple medicine and 3 biomed with a medicine PS. What a couple have told me is that its easier to get into and an easier course(than medicine). Whereas I consider it to be its own course. Its irritating

I'm just about to send off my UCAS form, I'm applying for Biomedical science courses but I'm unsure if it's a good career or not. What are your opinions?

It's completely it's own course. Its focus is completely different to medicine; the role of clinical scientists and doctors are poles apart. Medical students can laugh all they like about how biomed is for medicine rejects, but with so many medicine applicants putting biomed down as a back-up choice it's a self-fulfilling prophecy created by medical applicants themselves. Comparing biomed and medicine in difficulty is taking the one-up-manship a bit far though, especially from applicants who haven't even started uni yet.

All biology courses are basically a pick and mix of the same 'pool' of modules, so Biomed is just like any other biology degree (i.e. criticise biomed, and criticise biosciences in general). Personally, I studied microbiology which shared a lot of the lecture modules with biomed (pathology, genetics, immunology, cellular biology), but I didn't do anything on anatomy or physiology like some biomeds do. Now working in a clinical science that has nothing to do with microbiology, so like I said before, the modules are more important than degree title.

Thankyou so much for that I'm an AS student who is really interested in applying for biomedical science as I would really like to get into medical research, however people are always saying that It's just a course for medicine rejects and I'll just be seen like that even though i have had no interest in taking medicine. is biomed a limiting course though?