Medical Science in GMIT

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Does anyone have a list of the subjects that are studied in the 2nd year of this course. If anyone had info as to the options for major/minor subjects in Final Year it would be really appreciated.

Also, is the pass mark for exams 50% like other health-science courses?

I have contacted the college, but no luck so far

Thanks.

garry2010

final year option 1 is medical micro and clinical chemistry versus option 2 which is haematology / blood transfusion and cell pathology

second year consists of biochemistry, clin chemistry, micro, communications, molecular biology, blood trans, haematology, physiology, cell path etc

ickythump

pass mark used to be 50% up untill the start of last year, then to standardise the course it was reduced to 40% - but with no compensation. the rule with compensation used to be if you scored below 50% but above 42% you could pass by compensation (either internally - if your CA throughout the year was good- or externally- if your mark in another subject was good )
phew that was a pretty complicated system looking back on it.
now if you score 39% it's a bit fat fail.
good luck with second year, it certainly aint no walk in the park!

Galmay

I did this course many years ago when it was a 5 year course to degree level and had a 50% pass mark. Damn tough going course, its no walk in the park even from the start. However its rewarding - a great job at the end of it and the potential to make good money.

Thing is there are no jobs in Ireland at the moment due to the government moratorium on recruitment.
Also the whole lab service to more than likely going to be privatised and centralised into 3 large centres across the country within the next few years. There may be many redundancies, and the new private labs may only employ a small number of medical scientists just to authorise and sign off on results and quality assurance etc, with the majority of work done by unskilled and poorly paid lab aides. This is all hear say, no concrete facts yet except that centralisation will occur.

Nobody knows for sure what the HSE will do, however if they do not privatise the service it is good to note that 50% of the current lab staff will be retiring in the next 5 to 10 yrs. Alternatively, there are plenty of good jobs in the field abroad and irish medical scientists are among the best trained in the world and very highly regarded.