Is pharmacology a good degree choice or biomedical science?
What are the job security and opportunities like after? Is it better than biomed or worse? I would love to learn how to manufacture medications and start my own supplements and vitamins company.
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Within biomedical science you do pharmacology alongside many other topics, whereas in pharmacology you just do pharmacology.
For this reason, biomedical science as far as I’m aware is more flexible as a degree since you can go into more post graduate and in the workplace. I’m going to assume that pharmacology has less options after graduating, though I could be wrong.
If I were you, I’d pick biomedical science since you can still go into the pharmaceutical industry afterward, but it will also allow you to get explore other topics (Neuroscience, Microbiology etc-), so if you change your mind after graduating you have more options.
Hope this helps!
For this reason, biomedical science as far as I’m aware is more flexible as a degree since you can go into more post graduate and in the workplace. I’m going to assume that pharmacology has less options after graduating, though I could be wrong.
If I were you, I’d pick biomedical science since you can still go into the pharmaceutical industry afterward, but it will also allow you to get explore other topics (Neuroscience, Microbiology etc-), so if you change your mind after graduating you have more options.
Hope this helps!
I wouldn't agree with the previous post. Most biomedical science degrees have very little pharmacology; certainly not enough to equip you for a career in the pharma industry. Certainly before I started lecturing and worked alongside the pharma industry we employed a number of pharmacology graduates but wouldn't really have considered those with a biomedical science degree as it wasn't specialist enough.
I now run a pharmacology degree and the course content is more varied than our biomedical science degree; for example the neuroscience content is much higher. On the other hand, biomedical sciences (which is a different degree to biomedical science entirely) does have a much broader content.
If you do biomedical science (the IBMS accredited one) it's very much geared to you working as a trained biomedical scientist in diagnostics and you learn a lot of aspects of clinical biochemistry, haematology, microbiology. If there is no chance of you wanting to do this I wouldn't go for biomedical science.
However there are a lot of universities where biomedical science (or biomedical sciences) and pharmacology share a common first year, and (dependent on grades achieved) you can easily switch between the 2. If you're not 100% sure then I'd recommend doing that
I now run a pharmacology degree and the course content is more varied than our biomedical science degree; for example the neuroscience content is much higher. On the other hand, biomedical sciences (which is a different degree to biomedical science entirely) does have a much broader content.
If you do biomedical science (the IBMS accredited one) it's very much geared to you working as a trained biomedical scientist in diagnostics and you learn a lot of aspects of clinical biochemistry, haematology, microbiology. If there is no chance of you wanting to do this I wouldn't go for biomedical science.
However there are a lot of universities where biomedical science (or biomedical sciences) and pharmacology share a common first year, and (dependent on grades achieved) you can easily switch between the 2. If you're not 100% sure then I'd recommend doing that
Original post by Dr_Jo
I wouldn't agree with the previous post. Most biomedical science degrees have very little pharmacology; certainly not enough to equip you for a career in the pharma industry. Certainly before I started lecturing and worked alongside the pharma industry we employed a number of pharmacology graduates but wouldn't really have considered those with a biomedical science degree as it wasn't specialist enough.
I now run a pharmacology degree and the course content is more varied than our biomedical science degree; for example the neuroscience content is much higher. On the other hand, biomedical sciences (which is a different degree to biomedical science entirely) does have a much broader content.
If you do biomedical science (the IBMS accredited one) it's very much geared to you working as a trained biomedical scientist in diagnostics and you learn a lot of aspects of clinical biochemistry, haematology, microbiology. If there is no chance of you wanting to do this I wouldn't go for biomedical science.
However there are a lot of universities where biomedical science (or biomedical sciences) and pharmacology share a common first year, and (dependent on grades achieved) you can easily switch between the 2. If you're not 100% sure then I'd recommend doing that
I now run a pharmacology degree and the course content is more varied than our biomedical science degree; for example the neuroscience content is much higher. On the other hand, biomedical sciences (which is a different degree to biomedical science entirely) does have a much broader content.
If you do biomedical science (the IBMS accredited one) it's very much geared to you working as a trained biomedical scientist in diagnostics and you learn a lot of aspects of clinical biochemistry, haematology, microbiology. If there is no chance of you wanting to do this I wouldn't go for biomedical science.
However there are a lot of universities where biomedical science (or biomedical sciences) and pharmacology share a common first year, and (dependent on grades achieved) you can easily switch between the 2. If you're not 100% sure then I'd recommend doing that
Sorry, I was just using information I had been told by other people on this website. The person who wrote the OP should ignore what I wrote because clearly you know more than I do.
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