COURSE: BSC IN MEDICAL SCIENCE

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

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