BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES – APPLIED DISCIPLINE

Medicine has been practiced since prehistoric times. It has been and will continue to be a field of interest to a number of high school graduates as the years go by. Modern medicine comprises of various aspects and fields.  A few of these fields include;

• Clinical practice
• Medications
• Biomedical sciences/research
• Surgery
• Medical devices
• Alternative and complementary medicine
• Clinical research
• Psychotherapy
• Physical and occupational therapy, etc.

All these and more are the various fields of medicine, of which student’s interest in biomedical sciences/ research field seems to be on the increase and this could be as a result of the growing demand for Biological Scientist across the world.

As written in the 2015 Benchmark statement by the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, biomedical science includes those science disciplines whose primary focus is the biology of human health and disease, and this ranges from the generic study of biomedical sciences and human biology to more specialized subject areas such as pharmacology, human physiology and human nutrition. Biomedical sciences are a set of sciences applying portions of natural science or formal science, or both, to develop knowledge, interventions, or technology that are of use in healthcare or public health. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_sciences#1930s

There are basically three subdivisions of the biomedical sciences which have various applied disciplines or specialism for undergraduate studies. These subdivisions include;

1. Specialisms involving life sciences
2. Specialisms involving physiological science
3. Specialisms involving medical physics or bioengineering

Below, you will find a list of some applied disciplines in these different subdivisions which students can specialize in during their undergraduate studies.

APPLIED DISCIPLINES INVOLVING LIFE SCIENCE

• Molecular genetics and cytogenetic
• Molecular biology and cell biology
• Microbiology including mycology
• Bacteriology
• Virology
• Molecular pathology
• Clinical biochemistry
• Clinical embryology
• Clinical immunology, etc.

APPLIED DISCIPLINES INVOLVING PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

• Neurophysiology
• Cardiac physiology
• Audiology and hearing therapy
• Urology
• Critical care science
• Ophthalmic and vision science
• Respiratory and sleep physiology, etc.

APPLIED DISCIPLINES INVOLVING MEDICAL PHYSICS OR BIOENGINEERING

• Biomechanical engineering
• Biomedical engineering
• Clinical engineering
• Clinical measurement
• Diagnostic radiology
• Equipment management
• Maxillofacial prosthetics
• Medical electronics
• Nuclear medicine
• Radiotherapy physics
• Medical engineering design, etc.

These and many more are the different applied disciplines of the three subdivisions of biomedical sciences students can specialize in during their undergraduate studies. You can visit our website at www.examguide.com to get more info and updates concerning your course of study selection.