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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2016/2017

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Degree Programme Table: Biomedical Sciences (Medical Biology) BSc (Hons) (UTBSCBSCMB1F)

Year 2, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

  • Notes: 1. Before selecting your course options, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor. Students may wish to make use of the interactive programme builder PATH to help inform their decision regarding course choices (https://path.is.ed.ac.uk/).

    2. A booklet giving details, as well as restrictions and recommendation on choices of courses, will be available for students entering the degree programme to facilitate advance planning.

    3. Progression to Honours requires students to obtain 240 credit points (or 220 credit points with the permission of the Progression Board) by the end of the August examination diet. In addition, students must obtain at least 50% at the first sitting in Biomedical Sciences 2 and one other compulsory course. By the end of the August examination diet students must have passed all three compulsory courses with an overall mean of 50%.



  • Year 3, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Notes: 1. Before selecting your course options, please ensure you have met with your Personal Tutor. Students may wish to make use of the interactive programme builder PATH to help inform their decision regarding course choices (https://path.is.ed.ac.uk/).

    2. A booklet giving details, as well as restrictions and recommendations on choices of courses, will be available for students entering the degree programme to facilitate advance planning.

    3. In order to proceed to Senior Honours students must have obtained at least 360 credit points and met the requirements set out in the DPT for their selected programme of study. Student must have:
    - passes in all core 1st, 2nd and 3rd year courses.
    - at least 80 credit points by passing level 9 or level 10 courses in the Junior Honours year at first attempt; and
    - an overall aggregate mark of at least 40% in Level 9/10 courses taken in Junior Honours.

    4. Students are required to take 60 credits in Semester 1 and 60 credits in Semester 2.


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 1 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    BIME09008 Biomedical Sciences 3 Full Year 40




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 2 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 80 credits from these collections:  

    Select a minimum of 40 credits and maximum of 80 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    MSBM09001    Clinical Biochemistry and Endocrinology 3   20  
    MSBM09005    Clinical Immunology & Haematology 3A   20  
    MSBM09004    Clinical Immunology & Haematology 3B   20  
    BIME09002    Medical Microbiology 3   20  
    BIME09005    Mechanisms of Brain Development 3   20  
    BIME09012    Neuroscience 3   20  
    BIME09003    Pharmacology 3   20  
    BIME09004    Physiology 3   20  
    BIME09006    Reproductive Biology 3   20  

     

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     



    Year 4, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

  • Notes: A booklet giving details of, as well as restrictions on, course options will be available for students entering the degree programme to facilitate advance planning.

    Students may also wish to make use of the interactive programme builder PATH to help inform their decision regarding course choices (https://path.is.ed.ac.uk/).


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    MBBM10008 Medical Biology Project Semester 2 40
    MBBM10015 Medical Biology Core Full Year 20
    MBBM10017 Critical Analysis Skills in Medical Biology Semester 2 10
    MBBM10018 Medical Biology Synoptic Examination Full Year 10




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    BIME10030    Cancer Biology and Medicine   20  
    BIME10029    Cardiovascular Pharmacology & Therapeutics   20  
    BIME10028    Conception to Parturition   20  
    BIME10027    Development and Disease   20  
    BIME10026    Developmental and Clinical Neuroscience   20  
    BIME10025    Diagnostics and therapeutics for infectious disease   20  
    BIME10024    Endocrine Physiology and Pharmacology   20  
    BIME10023    Forensic Investigation   20  
    BIME10022    Genetic and Environmental Influences on Behaviour and Mental Health   20  
    BIME10021    Global Health and Infectious Diseases   20  
    BIME10020    Hormones & Behaviour   20  
    BIME10018    Integrative Physiology   20  
    BIME10011    Neural circuits for learning and memory   20  
    BIME10010    Neurobiology of Cognition   20  
    BIME10032    Neurodegeneration, obesity and cancer: genetics and beyond   20  
    BIME10009    Neuroimaging   20  
    BIME10008    Neurotransmitters In Action   20  
    BIME10034    Making Sense of Disease Pathways   20  
    BIME10007    Receptors, signalling and regulation of cell responsiveness   20  
    BIME10017    Regenerative Medicine   20  
    BIME10016    Reproductive Systems   20  
    BIME10015    Science Communication   20  
    BIME10014    Sensory Physiology and Dysfunction   20  
    BIME10013    Social and Ethical Aspects of Medicine   20  
    BIME10012    Synaptic Function and Plasticity in Health and Disease   20  
    BIME10035    Antibiotic Crisis   20  
    BIME10036    Inflammation and Tissue Repair   20  

     


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