This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the medical industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years full time
Compulsory Sujects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- General chemistry
- Academic literacy
- Science and world views
- Molecular and cell biology
- General physics
- Mathematics
- Introduction to human anatomy and embryology
- Human osteology
- Basic human histology
- Biometry
- Information literacy
- Introductory genetics
- Introduction to microbiology
Second year subjects:
- Human cellular and development biology
- Paleo-anthropology
- Human anatomy
- Introduction to proteins and enzymes
- Carbohydrate metabolism
- Introductory – and neurophysics
- Circulatory physiology
- Human histology
- Human anatomy
- Lipid and nitrogen metabolism
- Biochemistry in perspective
- Lung and renal physics, acid and temperature
- Digestive, endocrine, and reproductive systems
Third year subjects:
- Forensic anthropology
- Histology techniques
- Human cellular and development biology
- Comparative anatomy
- Applied research techniques
Careers: medical scientist.
Source: www.up.ac.za