C10184v8 Bachelor of Medical Science
Award(s): Bachelor of Medical Science (BMedSc)Bachelor of Medical Science in Pathology (BMedSc)
Bachelor of Medical Science in Medical and Health-related Sciences (BMedSc)
UAC code: 607050 (No major) (Autumn session, Spring session, Spring session), 607051 (Pathology) (Autumn session, Spring session, Spring session), 607052 (Medical & Health-related Sciences) (Autumn session, Spring session, Spring session)
CRICOS code: 023607A
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 144
Course EFTSL: 3
Location: City campus
Overview
Course aims
Career options
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Course intended learning outcomes
Admission requirements
Pathway course
Assumed knowledge
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course diagram
Course program
Honours
Other information
Overview
Shape the future of human health with a uniquely hands-on degree from one of Australia’s leading science faculties. The UTS Bachelor of Medical Science combines the study of health science with technical, professional and communication-centric subjects taught by leading researchers and medical science practitioners. Graduates emerge ready to create, innovate and implement solutions to pressing medical and health care problems or to progress to honours or postgraduate study in a range of health and science disciplines.
Why UTS Science?
As one of Australia’s leading university science faculties, UTS Science is committed to scientific advancement that creates a more sustainable world. Our students join a university that delivers global impact in STEM education and research and a faculty that produces scientists with the power to transform the profession.
Course features
- Complete a series of common core subjects that underpin all undergraduate UTS Science degrees. For instance, Data, Design and Decisions and Scientific Perspectives for Global Issues are designed to equip students with a toolkit of technical and workplace skills, preparing them to thrive both at and after uni.
- Choice of major:
- There are two majors on offer as part of this degree. Course content is common to both majors throughout first year; from there, students specialise in their preferred area of medical science.
- Medical and Health-related Sciences: Known as the people side of medical science, this major covers pharmacology, immunology, haematology and pathophysiology and their application to critical and emerging areas of the profession. Study personalised medicines, evidence-based medicine processes, and medical devices and diagnostics gaining the skills to deliver new innovations that positively impact human health.
- Pathology: This major is focused on the understanding, detection and treatment of disease and infection using industry-standard technologies in immunology, microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Students learn to diagnose disease; investigate the impact of specific pathologies at the molecular, cellular or organ level; and identify, prevent and treat infections, as well as limit their impact on society. Students also gain firsthand experience with a range of blood and tissue testing approaches and biomolecular sensing techniques – skills that are in high demand in the booming pathology laboratory sector.
- Medical Laboratory Professional (fourth year): Eligible students who complete the three-year Pathology major can apply for selection into the Bachelor of Medical Science (Medical Laboratory Professional). This fourth-year program delivers industry-aligned technical skills development and extensive professional experience through a laboratory placement with our industry partner NSW Health Pathology, that equips students for a diversity of roles in the medical laboratory sector.
- Free electives: Students can customise the course to suit their personal or career aspirations. They can enrol in an international exchange, tailor their learning with a choice of subjects from any UTS faculty or gain hands-on experience in a diagnostic laboratory with the Professional Experience in Medical Science elective .
Course aims
Learn from the leaders in medical science
Connect with hands-on medical science internships, and apply for UTS’s rapidly expanding Professional Experience Program*. On campus, benefit from the faculty’s extensive research and industry connections through co-designed curriculum, guest lectures and industry-relevant projects.
*Please note: this is an elective subject. Students must complete a competitive application process to secure a professional placement.
Study in purpose-built facilities
As a university of technology, UTS is known for its commitment to practice-based teaching and the integration of new technologies into course design and development. UTS Medical Science students learn in the world-class Hive Super Lab and UTS Science Super Lab, two collaborative, tech-driven learning environments that support simultaneous teaching of multiple classes in one space. Students in the Medical and Health Sciences major can also access the Surgical and Anatomical Science Facility for the ultimate hands-on learning experience.
Career options
Prepare to deliver local and global impact in the health care sector. Graduates have a diversity of career options at their fingertips, including as a medical scientist, medical laboratory technician, consultant/advisor or science communicator for:
- public and private hospitals; clinical trial and tissue bank settings; public health units; government departments; diagnostic labs; biotechnology, health technology and pharmaceutical companies; and other agencies/businesses seeking medical science expertise
- medical device companies or inpatient recruitment for clinical trials
- policy and regulatory organisations, such as state health departments and the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Transdisciplinarity and Innovation at UTSAll UTS students have the opportunity to develop distinctive capabilities around transdisciplinary thinking and innovation through the TD School. Transdisciplinary education at UTS brings together great minds from different disciplines to explore ideas that improve the way we live and work in the world. These offerings are unique to UTS and directly translate to many existing and emerging roles and careers.
Diploma in InnovationThe Diploma in Innovation (C20060) teaches innovation, supports personal transformation and provides the hard skills needed to support the inventors and inventions of the future. Students come out of the Diploma in Innovation, with the hard skills to create and support sectoral and societal transformation. Graduates are able to fluently integrate ideas, across professional disciplines and are inventors of the future.
All UTS undergraduate students (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation) can apply for the Diploma in Innovation upon admission in their chosen undergraduate degree. It is a complete degree program that runs in parallel to any undergraduate degree. The course is offered on a three-year, part-time basis, with subjects running in 3-week long intensive blocks in July, December and February sessions. More information including a link to apply is available at https://dipinn.uts.edu.au.
Transdisciplinary electives programTransdisciplinary electives broaden students' horizons and supercharge their problem-solving skills, helping them to learn outside, beyond and across their degrees. Students enrolled in an undergraduate course that includes electives can choose to take a transdisciplinary subject (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation). More information about the TD Electives program is available here.
Course intended learning outcomes
| 1.1 | Explain how diseases arise and disrupt normal physiological function and appraise the technologies used to diagnose, treat, and cure diseases. |
| 2.1 | Collect, accurately record, interpret, and draw conclusions from data to solve real-world medical problems, and infer how the results of medical research can be translated to improve patient outcomes. |
| 3.1 | Evaluate ethical, social, and cultural issues in medical science in local and global contexts and work responsibly, safely and with respect to diversity and regulatory frameworks. |
| 4.1 | Reflect upon, independently evaluate, and critically appraise current evidence-based literature to identify medical problems or unmet medical needs and creatively translate medical research results to improve the clinical care of patients. |
| 5.1 | Effectively communicate medical science knowledge and research information, and the importance thereof, to a range of audiences using a variety of modes, independently and collaboratively. |
| 6.1 | Acquire or Develop knowledge of Indigenous Australian contexts to inform professional cultural capability to work effectively with and for, Indigenous Australians within the medical science context. |
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL iBT: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64 with a writing score of 50; or C1A/C2P: 176-184 with a writing score of 169.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Pathway course
Successful completion of the UTS College:
- Diploma of Engineering with a WAM of at least 75 per cent without any failures guarantees entry into the course with 36 credit points recognition of prior learning
- Diploma of Science (Life Science) guarantees entry into the course with 48 credit points of recognition of prior learning.
Assumed knowledge
Mathematics; any two units of English; any two units of Science.
Course duration and attendance
Students can complete the course over three years full time or six years part time. Part-time students are required to attend some classes in daytime hours.
Course structure
Students must complete a total of 144 credit points, made up of 48 credit points of Foundation stream core subjects, 72 credit points of major core subjects and 24 credit points of elective subjects. The elective subjects enable students to increase their expertise in other areas of science or other disciplines in the University.
Industrial training/professional practice
Students studying this course have an opportunity to undertake internship subjects and receive academic credit for their placement off campus (an external business or research institute) or on campus (UTS research institutes or departments), in a capacity relevant to their academic studies.
Course completion requirements
| STM90680 Scientist's Tool Kit (Life Sciences) | 48cp | |
| CBK92144 Major choice (Medical Science) | 72cp | |
| CBK92300 Electives (Science UG) | 24cp | |
| Total | 144cp |
Course diagram
Course program
Typical course programs are shown below.
| Medical and Health-related sciences, Autumn commencing, full time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 65111 Chemistry 1 | 6cp | |
| 91161 Cell Biology and Genetics | 6cp | |
| 33116 Design, Data, and Decisions | 6cp | |
| 60006 Scientific Perspectives for Global Issues | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 65212 Chemistry 2 | 6cp | |
| 91123 Nature and Evolution | 6cp | |
| 91400 Human Anatomy and Physiology | 6cp | |
| 91132 Molecular Biology | 6cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 91314 General Microbiology | 6cp | |
| 91320 Metabolic Biochemistry | 6cp | |
| 91563 Haematology | 6cp | |
| 91707 Fundamentals of Pharmacology | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91401 Immunology | 6cp | |
| 91830 Human Pathophysiology | 6cp | |
| 91822 Human Genetics and Precision Medicine | 6cp | |
| 91838 Structural Anatomy and Neuroanatomy | 6cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| CBK92069 Transdisciplinary Electives | 6cp | |
| Select 18 credit points from the following: | 18cp | |
| CBK92300 Electives (Science UG) | 24cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91709 Advanced Pharmacology | 6cp | |
| 91180 Immunology and Human Health | 6cp | |
| 91828 Evidence Based Practice in Medical Science | 6cp | |
| 91705 Medical Devices and Diagnostics | 6cp | |
| Medical and Health-related sciences, Spring commencing, full time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Spring session | ||
| 65111 Chemistry 1 | 6cp | |
| 91161 Cell Biology and Genetics | 6cp | |
| 91123 Nature and Evolution | 6cp | |
| 91400 Human Anatomy and Physiology | 6cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| January Session | ||
| 65212 Chemistry 2 | 6cp | |
| Autumn session | ||
| 33116 Design, Data, and Decisions | 6cp | |
| 60006 Scientific Perspectives for Global Issues | 6cp | |
| 91314 General Microbiology | 6cp | |
| 91320 Metabolic Biochemistry | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91838 Structural Anatomy and Neuroanatomy | 6cp | |
| 91830 Human Pathophysiology | 6cp | |
| 91822 Human Genetics and Precision Medicine | 6cp | |
| 91132 Molecular Biology | 6cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| January Session | ||
| 91401 Immunology | 6cp | |
| Autumn session | ||
| 91707 Fundamentals of Pharmacology | 6cp | |
| 91563 Haematology | 6cp | |
| CBK92069 Transdisciplinary Electives | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91709 Advanced Pharmacology | 6cp | |
| 91180 Immunology and Human Health | 6cp | |
| 91828 Evidence Based Practice in Medical Science | 6cp | |
| 91705 Medical Devices and Diagnostics | 6cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| Select 18 credit points from the following: | 18cp | |
| CBK92300 Electives (Science UG) | 24cp | |
| Pathology, Autumn commencing, full time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 65111 Chemistry 1 | 6cp | |
| 91161 Cell Biology and Genetics | 6cp | |
| 33116 Design, Data, and Decisions | 6cp | |
| 60006 Scientific Perspectives for Global Issues | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 65212 Chemistry 2 | 6cp | |
| 91123 Nature and Evolution | 6cp | |
| 91400 Human Anatomy and Physiology | 6cp | |
| 91132 Molecular Biology | 6cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 91314 General Microbiology | 6cp | |
| 91320 Metabolic Biochemistry | 6cp | |
| 91563 Haematology | 6cp | |
| 91500 Histology | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91401 Immunology | 6cp | |
| 91178 Applications of Molecular Biology | 6cp | |
| 91195 Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Infections | 6cp | |
| 91827 Advanced Medical Biochemistry | 6cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| CBK92069 Transdisciplinary Electives | 6cp | |
| Select 18 credit points from the following: | 18cp | |
| CBK92300 Electives (Science UG) | 24cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91821 Transfusion Science | 6cp | |
| 91180 Immunology and Human Health | 6cp | |
| 91826 Advanced Haematology and Pathology Diagnosis | 6cp | |
| 91829 Microbiology Diagnosis | 6cp | |
| Pathology, Spring commencing, full time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Spring session | ||
| 65111 Chemistry 1 | 6cp | |
| 91161 Cell Biology and Genetics | 6cp | |
| 91123 Nature and Evolution | 6cp | |
| 91400 Human Anatomy and Physiology | 6cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| January Session | ||
| 65212 Chemistry 2 | 6cp | |
| Autumn session | ||
| 33116 Design, Data, and Decisions | 6cp | |
| 60006 Scientific Perspectives for Global Issues | 6cp | |
| 91314 General Microbiology | 6cp | |
| 91320 Metabolic Biochemistry | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91827 Advanced Medical Biochemistry | 6cp | |
| 91829 Microbiology Diagnosis | 6cp | |
| 91195 Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Infections | 6cp | |
| 91132 Molecular Biology | 6cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| January Session | ||
| 91401 Immunology | 6cp | |
| Autumn session | ||
| 91563 Haematology | 6cp | |
| 91500 Histology | 6cp | |
| CBK92069 Transdisciplinary Electives | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 91821 Transfusion Science | 6cp | |
| 91180 Immunology and Human Health | 6cp | |
| 91178 Applications of Molecular Biology | 6cp | |
| 91826 Advanced Haematology and Pathology Diagnosis | 6cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| Select 18 credit points from the following: | 18cp | |
| CBK92300 Electives (Science UG) | 24cp | |
Honours
The Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) (C09031) is available to eligible students with an additional one year of full-time study.
Other information
Further information is available from:
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