Can you do medicine through biomedical engineering?

THEMRMONGOOSE

I heard that you can do law or medicine through biomedical engineering. Is this true? could you get the same type of medical degree by going this route or is it different, you know like engineering is level 8 in NUIG and level 7 in GMIT etc.

Raging_Ninja

THEMRMONGOOSE wrote: »

I heard that you can do law or medicine through biomedical engineering. Is this true? could you get the same type of medical degree by going this route or is it different, you know like engineering is level 8 in NUIG and level 7 in GMIT etc.

I don't know about medicine, but anyone with any degree can do the LLB then go on to Kings Inns or Blackhall Place and become a lawyer - a degree in Law isn't necessary.

THEMRMONGOOSE

Raging_Ninja wrote: »

THEMRMONGOOSE wrote: »

I heard that you can do law or medicine through biomedical engineering. Is this true? could you get the same type of medical degree by going this route or is it different, you know like engineering is level 8 in NUIG and level 7 in GMIT etc.

I don't know about medicine, but anyone with any degree can do the LLB then go on to Kings Inns or Blackhall Place and become a lawyer - a degree in Law isn't necessary.

Well I don't care about law because I have enough points to do civil law directly so that doesn't bother me, it's just that I wanted to see if I had an option to transfer to another course like medicine if I didn't like BE.

dastardly00

OP,
do you mean doing a graduate level medicine programme after you graduate with you biomedical engineering degree?
If so, check out the graduate medical programmes available in UL and the RCSI.

THEMRMONGOOSE

dastardly00 wrote: »

OP,
do you mean doing a graduate level medicine programme after you graduate with you biomedical engineering degree?
If so, check out the graduate medical programmes available in UL and the RCSI.

No not exactly. I was talking to a friend and he said that since you would be doing a form of the medical course you could transfer into medicine after a certain amount of time. I haven't confirmed what he said to be true but I believe him.
I don't know whether or not going into medicine this way would get you the same degree as going in directly.

apoeiguq3094y

No, you could only move within the engineering courses. So you could move from biomedical to mechanical engineering.

If you can't get in the CAO way, and want to do the post grad method, biomed eng is a good first degree to do. But beware that it is fundamentally an engineering degree. So it will involve lots of maths and physics.

Best of luck.

THEMRMONGOOSE

apoeiguq3094y wrote: »

No, you could only move within the engineering courses. So you could move from biomedical to mechanical engineering.

If you can't get in the CAO way, and want to do the post grad method, biomed eng is a good first degree to do. But beware that it is fundamentally an engineering degree. So it will involve lots of maths and physics.

Best of luck.

Thanks. It's a bit disappointing I cant get it this way buts its grand. I'm not a fan of all the maths in engineering though but I like the medical side of it so I don't know what to do!

jumpguy

There's no back door into medicine through any other course that I know of. It's either straight into the undergrad degree or get a 2:1 and do it postgrad as far as I know.

wallpaper12

THEMRMONGOOSE wrote: »

Thanks. It's a bit disappointing I cant get it this way buts its grand. I'm not a fan of all the maths in engineering though but I like the medical side of it so I don't know what to do!

Probably shouldnt do biomedical engineering then because its still going to be 80-90 percent maths and physics and stuff. You will of course do some stuff on anatomy but as its engineering your just going to be designing stuff using physics to replicate parts of the anatomy.
Would you not consider doing science and picking subjects like anatomy, physiology etc?

f1dan

Have you considered Biomedical Science?

pinkballetdance

There is a lot of people currently in 1st med who transfered after a year of a science course but these people could only transfer because they repeated their HPAT and then had enough points to reapply through the CAO. Your friend might be confusing this with just asking to transfer.

I'd be inclined to agree with f1dan and consider biomedical science their first year is almost identicle to Pre med and then after that they pick from Anatomy Physiology Pharmacology and Biochemistry all of which are 1st med subjects. But they are taught seperatly. They courses start to differ then when Medicine students start to learn clinical skills and the Biomeds stay in the science side of things.

Hope this helps