Career Talk: Biomedicine
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Biomedicine was introduced in our education system since 10 years ago. However only recently it was well known among students. UKM was one of the pioneer university to introduce this course.
Basically biomedicine is under health allied sciences faculty where there are 11 courses all together in this faculty such as pharmacy,speech therapist,dietetic and nutrition,occupational therapy and few more.
You will be exposed to blood samples,urine,feces,organs just like medical students. Our syllabus is on anatomy and physiology mainly. You will be introduced to other subjects as well like biochemistry,microbiology,psycology,pharmacology and loads more of fun and educating subjects. You will be learning about normal body function for the first year and followed up by pathology the next year. We will be having great time learning about new things everyday and to all biomedicine students, your best friend throughout your course year will be our dearest microscope!
To give some picture of being an undergrad in UKM,there are 6 Indian students in the first year and only one Indian senior in second year. Thats all the indians in this course. You can also apply for JPA scolarship or else there will be a definite loan from PTPTN.
Sub-Disipline
* Histopathology - Medical scientist in this field will examine body cells and tissues to detect the presence or absence of disease. This will help in discovering abnormalities that may indicate cancer or other diseases of the tissues.
* Blood transfusion science - This will be the testing of reciepent's and donor's blood to ensure compatibility and safe transfusion.
* Immunology - This is the study of an individual immune response to infection, malignancy and tissue damage. An immunologist will diagnose fungal diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer and hypersensitivity reactions (eg. asthma).
* Haematology - The study of diseases and abnormalities of the blood and bone marrow. The medical scientist will count the numbers of red cells, white cells and platelets - the important examinations for identifying leukemia and blood clots.
* Clinical biochemistry - This involves analysis of body fluids for various chemicals, enzymes and medicines.
* Microbiology - The key role will be to determine which antiobiotics would be most effective in curing infection. They will identify micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites that cause infection. Later it will be tested for effective antibiotics
* Endocrinology - Medical scientists will determine the levels of various hormones to diagnose diseases that are caused by excessive or inadequate production of an essential hormone.
Career Option
Biomedicine is a very wide scope. As medical scientists, they may choose hospital-based clinical and pathology laboratories, private pathology services, blood transfusion services or public health laboratories. There are also employments in universities, veterinary laboratories or even as a respresentative for diagnostic companies.
Students also can pursue their studies doing Master or PhD.
Author: Ms. Priya
Institution: UKM, KL branch.
[admin's note: please be free to post your questions here to be answered by Ms Priya or admin. Questions can be also directed to her Friendster profile].
Basically biomedicine is under health allied sciences faculty where there are 11 courses all together in this faculty such as pharmacy,speech therapist,dietetic and nutrition,occupational therapy and few more.
You will be exposed to blood samples,urine,feces,organs just like medical students. Our syllabus is on anatomy and physiology mainly. You will be introduced to other subjects as well like biochemistry,microbiology,psycology,pharmacology and loads more of fun and educating subjects. You will be learning about normal body function for the first year and followed up by pathology the next year. We will be having great time learning about new things everyday and to all biomedicine students, your best friend throughout your course year will be our dearest microscope!
To give some picture of being an undergrad in UKM,there are 6 Indian students in the first year and only one Indian senior in second year. Thats all the indians in this course. You can also apply for JPA scolarship or else there will be a definite loan from PTPTN.
Sub-Disipline
* Histopathology - Medical scientist in this field will examine body cells and tissues to detect the presence or absence of disease. This will help in discovering abnormalities that may indicate cancer or other diseases of the tissues.
* Blood transfusion science - This will be the testing of reciepent's and donor's blood to ensure compatibility and safe transfusion.
* Immunology - This is the study of an individual immune response to infection, malignancy and tissue damage. An immunologist will diagnose fungal diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer and hypersensitivity reactions (eg. asthma).
* Haematology - The study of diseases and abnormalities of the blood and bone marrow. The medical scientist will count the numbers of red cells, white cells and platelets - the important examinations for identifying leukemia and blood clots.
* Clinical biochemistry - This involves analysis of body fluids for various chemicals, enzymes and medicines.
* Microbiology - The key role will be to determine which antiobiotics would be most effective in curing infection. They will identify micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites that cause infection. Later it will be tested for effective antibiotics
* Endocrinology - Medical scientists will determine the levels of various hormones to diagnose diseases that are caused by excessive or inadequate production of an essential hormone.
Career Option
Biomedicine is a very wide scope. As medical scientists, they may choose hospital-based clinical and pathology laboratories, private pathology services, blood transfusion services or public health laboratories. There are also employments in universities, veterinary laboratories or even as a respresentative for diagnostic companies.
Students also can pursue their studies doing Master or PhD.
Author: Ms. Priya
Institution: UKM, KL branch.
[admin's note: please be free to post your questions here to be answered by Ms Priya or admin. Questions can be also directed to her Friendster profile].
thank you upm makkalz. the credit goes to the author and i'm hoping more articles will pour in from our members.
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