You'll gain a sound understanding of how the human body functions in healthy and diseased states, barriers to health care, and methods for treatment. This degree could lead to careers in designing medicines to alleviate symptoms or vaccines to prevent diseases, or impacting public health policy.

Medical Sciences

Through the integration of theory and practical laboratory experiments, you'll develop critical skills and knowledge across pre-clinical scientific disciplines. You'll also be introduced to key concepts and methods used in clinical epidemiology, research study design and statistical reasoning. In the first year you'll gain an understanding of health, disease and wellbeing in individuals and populations, as well as learn basic physiology, biochemistry, genetics and human heredity. In second year, the immune system, infection and treatments, blood and blood pathologies, pharmacological aspects, human embryology and development, and disorders associated with genetic abnormalities including cancer, are covered. In the final year, you'll cover clinically relevant bioscience aspects of human body systems.

Medical Sciences graduates will have careers that span research, education, health administration and policy, and clinical practice. The diversity and widely applicable nature of the content of the major ensures graduates have a strong foundation from which to be our future researchers, clinicians, advocates, policy makers and educators.