BSc Biomedical Sciences (B990)
The BSc Biomedical Science (Hons) degree has been accredited by the prestigious Institute of Biomedical Science (this applies to degrees commencing on or after September 2009). For further information about accredited Biomedical Science degrees click here [external link].
The Biomedical Sciences curriculum is delivered by the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences with input from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Students study human anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics and pharmacology, with specialist courses on endocrinology, immunology and cancer biology.
Many of our Biomedical Science graduates go on to 4 (GEP) and 5 year medical and dental degrees at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and other UK medical schools. SBCS maintains close links with Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Barts & The London, and a number of modules on our Biomedical Sciences programme are taught by staff at the medical school. We have an excellent record of preparing our graduates for admission to medicine and dentistry, with more than 20 students on average successfully gaining places at Barts and The London alone every year; many graduates will also gain places at other medical schools in London and the rest of the UK. Many of these graduates will have studied Biomedical Sciences, but students from other programmes – including Medical genetics, Biochemistry, Biology, Genetics and Pharmaceutical chemistry – have also gone on to study medicine or dentistry.
Programme structure
Students are taught using mixture of lectures, practical laboratory classes and small-group tutorials and covering the whole range of biomedical sciences.
Year 1
Required Modules – Essential skills for biologists, Chromosomes and gene function, Human anatomy, The human cell, The microbial world and humans, Biomedical physiology I, Biomolecules of life, Tissue biology.
Year 2
Required Modules – Biomedical pharmacology, Human molecular biology, Techniques in Biomedical Sciences, Basic immunology, Biomedical physiology II, Clinical microbiology, Essential biochemistry for human life.
Options – Cell biology and developmental genetics, Fundamentals of neurobiology, Nutrition and whole body metabolism.
Year 3
Required Modules – Biomedical science case approach to problem solving, Endocrine physiology and biochemistry, Molecular clinical microbiology, Cancer biology, Cellular pathology and blood science and either Biomedical science research project or Investigative project or Project skills in the life sciences.
Options –Human genetics and genomics, Developmental biology and cell signalling, Neuroscience: from molecules to behaviour.
Entry Requirements
- AAB at A2 normally including Biology and Chemistry
- The 3rd A2 can come from a traditional academic subject but traditional Humanities or Social Sciences are also accepted.
- International Baccalaureate: 34 points overall. Must include Biology (HL) and Chemistry (HL) and two other subjects to be specified (HL or SL) with at least
grade 6 - BTEC National Certificate and BTEC National Diploma are not accepted
- For more information on entry requirements visit the SBCS general entry requirement page.