Differences between bachelor of biomed and bachelor of science?

[pi]

I'd probably like the option of having both pathways

[Stick]

Monash said they will email me in about a month's time with all the final details.

[spectroscopy]

have you heard from monash yet stick?

[duhherro]

Sorry for bump, but would it be better to just do science over biomed as it does leave you with more options in the future? And if you are trying for med, wouldn't it be better to just go for science as it can still lead to a medical pathway and there would be no need to put in even more effort in a biomed course?

[simpak]

It won't leave you with any more options if you just do a major that is also available in Biomedicine.

[charmanderp]

It won't leave you with any more options if you just do a major that is also available in Biomedicine.

That being said, you do have the option to do a lot of elective subjects in Science that you couldn't in Biomed even if you were majoring in the same thing. Or you could do a double major in something not available in Biomed.

[simpak]

You can't do a double major in uom bsci. Otherwise you're correct, but I'm interested to see what it is duhherro thinks he/she can do with science but not biomed if you do an MDHS major.

[vox nihili]

That being said, you do have the option to do a lot of elective subjects in Science that you couldn't in Biomed even if you were majoring in the same thing. Or you could do a double major in something not available in Biomed.

The electives thing isn't exactly true either. Well it depends on which way you look at it. In first year, we're more restricted, but at the same time we do cover chemistry, biology, maths, physics and stats, which is more than science can normally. There's also the option of covering engineering subjects etc etc. Then in second year, we've got core again and selectives. But each one of our core subjects covers three subject areas. So coming into third year, biomed should have more options again because we get more subjects stuffed down together because of the way core works.

[charmanderp]

You can't do a double major in uom bsci. Otherwise you're correct, but I'm interested to see what it is duhherro thinks he/she can do with science but not biomed if you do an MDHS major.

Oh really? I've been under the impression that you could, my bad.

[Russ]

You can do the subjects for two majors and have them appear on your transcript, but you'll have to pick one to be enrolled under. It's not particularly significant, since neither will appear on your actual degree title

[charmanderp]

You can do the subjects for two majors and have them appear on your transcript

Yeah this is sort of what I meant in the first instance (it's a similar deal with Arts). So if you do Science as opposed to Biomed you could do the subjects for a typical Biomed major as well as the subjects for a major that's not available in Biomed.

[vox nihili]

Yeah this is sort of what I meant in the first instance (it's a similar deal with Arts). So if you do Science as opposed to Biomed you could do the subjects for a typical Biomed major as well as the subjects for a major that's not available in Biomed.

It'd be quite difficult to do two unrelated majors though, so that makes that a little less feasible. Though a lot of Biomed kids do physiology and HSF, because the electives for phys and core in HSF and vice versa.

[charmanderp]

It'd be quite difficult to do two unrelated majors though, so that makes that a little less feasible. Though a lot of Biomed kids do physiology and HSF, because the electives for phys and core in HSF and vice versa.

Difficult in terms of logistics or academics?

[vox nihili]

Difficult in terms of logistics or academics?

Logistics. Although come to think of it, maybe not so much actually! Because we have core and that reduces our selectives in third year. Whereas in science you could feasibly have eight and thus have two majors.