Undergraduate areas of study - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Biomedical science

The Bachelor of Biomedical Science at Monash includes major contributions from many of the departments of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and the Faculty of Science. The degree is structured to permit articulation into at least one of many specific health and biomedical careers and appropriate higher level studies in the biomedical sciences area.

Students have the opportunity to study units from a wide range of faculties as part of the degree structure. These include the faculties of Arts, Business and Economics, Information Technology, Law, and Science. The overall structure of the course permits students to choose up to six units from outside the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. The course is student-oriented and takes every opportunity to offer units with as much flexibility as possible, encompassing a wide range of teaching and learning approaches.

The degree encompasses a range of interdisciplinary core units to cover all areas of the modern biomedical sciences, human biology and public health. These include aspects of anatomy, biochemistry, cell biology, clinical medicine, epidemiology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology and preventive medicine, and physiology. The core units have been designed to provide the student with the skills necessary to understand and investigate the functions of humans and other mammals and include aspects of the traditional biomedical sciences.