Biomedical Science (Humanities in Health and Medicine), Bachelor

The Bachelor of Biomedical Science provides a practical program that equips students with key knowledge and skills to influence the health of individuals and communities. It builds a solid understanding of human body functions in both healthy and diseased states, healthcare barriers, and treatment methods.

In order to be effective, health care professionals need to understand not only the workings of the body from a scientific perspective, but also to know how people and societies function, and the art and science of caring for people. A caring health professional is assisted by interpretive ability and insight, applies ethical sensitivity and has an awareness of their own values and attitudes. The aim of this major is to prepare individuals working across the health professions for caring for poeple through bringing together the traditions of humanities, inquiry, compassion, and judgment to bear on the management and on the promotion of health and the treatment of illness. Those traditions include the many ways cultures have of representing, narrating, analyzing, knowing, and organizing health, illness, treatment and human interactions.