西澳大学

Developed with leading clinical practitioners and educators, this major equips students with a strong foundation in medical sciences. Units include information on normal body structure and function, leading to mechanisms of disease from all the pre-clinical scientific disciplines including anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology and public health.

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 your 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, you'll cover the immune system, infection and treatments, blood and blood pathologies, pharmacological aspects, human embryology and development, and disorders associated with genetic abnormalities including cancer. In your final year, you'll cover clinically relevant bioscience aspects of human body systems.

Career Pathways

The Medical Sciences major ensures you gain a strong and thorough knowledge base from a range of essential disciplines including anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology, pathology, genetics, pharmacology, population health and physiology. This knowledge base is easily and flexibly applied to potential postgraduate education pathways in health and science and numerous professional-related career paths. 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.

Further Study

The Medical Sciences major provides students with a solid foundation in the medical sciences and a basis for future learning in postgraduate courses such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry, population health and pathology at UWA.