TR056 Human Health and Disease

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1) Yeah if you get a 2.1 or above you should be able to walk into any biomedical based masters you want. Roughly a third of my class are doing masters at the moment.

2)Biomedical science is a hugely vast field so there are basically unlimited options. Plenty go into research, others do masters and specialise into certain areas, others go into medicine, some go into medical/bioscience sales type jobs...the list goes on. If you know where you want to go you'll be able to work out a path to get there. You don't 'specialise' in 4th year but you do spend half the year doing a research project in a specific area.

3)The projects available from year to year change depending on who's labs are free to host etc but this year there were a few bioengineering type projects alright. There isn't really a lot taught about bioengineering stuff like tissue engineering taught in the course, but it's definitely something you wouldn't have difficulty specialising into after if you found an appropriate masters.

I'm not sure what you have in mind for 'create and engineer against diseases' but that sounds a lot like research to me. You don't necessarily have to go the independent research/academia route but working for industry like in a pharm company would require you to do some research. Most industry jobs and many jobs in the biomedical field in general require one to do a PhD first, so keep that in mind, you may not be able to completely avoid research.

But also keep an open mind, when I was considering my college choices I thought I'd hate doing research too but now I'm doing a PhD and I love it You won't honestly know what you want to do career wise at this stage, you're better off picking a course that best fits your interests and will give you good career options afterwards.

The hours are pretty manageable, nowhere near 40+; usually between 20-30, sometimes less depending on how the modules are split between terms.