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Undergraduate Prospectus 2017 | Bioscience

Biomedical Science
Key Information
Why study this course?

This multidisciplinary single honours programme enables you to
integrate many branches of biomedical science to understand the
molecular mechanisms of human health and disease.
At Keele, you’ll develop a deep appreciation of human disorders
and diseases from a scientific and an NHS Pathology practitioner’s
perspective. Your studies will integrate human physiology, biochemistry,
pathology, immunology, neuroscience and molecular and cell biology,
benefiting from research-led teaching and the input of professionals at
the Royal Stoke University Hospital’s Pathology Department. Placement
opportunities may include a one year work placement or a summer’s
research in the UK or abroad or you could apply for selection onto the
Applied Biomedical Science degree, which includes a hospital pathology
laboratory placement. Your degree will be accredited by the Institute
of Biomedical Science, assuring you of the quality of the programme as
preparation for a career in Pathology.

Indicative modules

First year
• Introduction to Medical
Laboratory Sciences Case
Studies in Medicine
• Nature’s Tools: Proteins
and Enzymes
• Metabolism: Major
Metabolic Pathways
• Introduction to Human
Physiology
• Cells and Organelles
• Information and Inheritance
• Human Physiology
and Pathology
Second year
• Medical Laboratory Science I
• Molecular, Cellular and
Structural Immunology
• Gene and Protein Engineering
• Medical Laboratory Science II
• Research and Analytical Skills
• Metabolism in Health
and Disease
Third year
• Biology of Disease
• Acquisition, Analysis and
Communication of Information
• Life Sciences Experimental
Research Project
• Neurobiological Basis
of Brain Disease

Single honours

Course duration

Three years (if taken
without a placement or
with a 14 week Applied
Biomedical Science
placement) or four years if
taken with a 46 week Life
Sciences placement
or Applied Biomedical
Science Placement

Indicative entry
requirements
ABB

• Advances in Medicine
• Clinical Pathology
• Biochemistry and Therapy
of Disease

For further information on
entry requirements please
visit www.keele.ac.uk/
entryrequirements

What will this mean
for my future?

Study abroad

Your Biomedical Science degree
from Keele will prepare you
to work in high-tech hospital
laboratories in the NHS or private
sector, but you might also
work in consultancy, research,
education or management.
You might work as a biomedical
scientist in the haematology,
clinical biochemistry, clinical
immunology, microbiology
or histopathology sections
of Pathology. Alternatively,
you might branch out into
patent law, medical sales or
teaching or build on your
Biomedical Science degree
to study for other healthcare
professional careers such as
medicine. Doing a placement
as part of a degree will put
invaluable work experience
on your CV.

For more course information please visit

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