Biomedicine with a Placement Year

Overview
Study Biomedicine and you’ll get to apply your passion for human biology to tackle Grand Challenges such as stem cell biology, ageing, cancer, arthritis and cardiovascular disease – placing you right at the forefront of the battle to improve human health.

Our BSc Biomedicine with a Placement Year degree will teach you how to apply cellular and molecular techniques to the understanding and treatment of human diseases. You’ll explore areas such as human physiology, antibiotic resistance, pathogens and genetics. And you’ll discover a host of additional topics including ophthalmology, metabolic disorders and gastroenterology.

You’ll train in a wide range of modern biochemical, molecular and imaging techniques as well as the practice of testing ideas by experiment. And you’ll be able to take advantage of our teaching laboratories, which offer state-of-the-art equipment and facilities.

This four-year degree programme follows the structure of our BSc Biomedicine, while giving you the opportunity to spend your third year on a biomedicine related work placement

A placement year makes an invaluable addition to your scientific knowledge and skills, increasing your employability and giving you the chance to put your first two years of learning into practice.

In the most recent Times Higher Education REF Analysis (2021), we were ranked 17th overall for research quality in Biological Science.

Disclaimer

Course details are subject to change. You should always confirm the details on the provider's website: www.uea.ac.uk

In Years 1 and 2, you will be introduced to many aspects of biomedicine with a number of compulsory modules, such as Fundamentals of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Skills for Biologists and Human Physiology. In your final year, you will have the opportunity to take a number of optional modules such as Cancer Biology, Microbial Biotechnology and Science Communication.