what is the difference between bachelor of science and bachelor of biomedicine?

[jenerator]

I've been looking for required ATARs to get in these two course. Biomedicine is ridiculously is competitive and requires a much high ATAR to get in. But overall, these two course leads to similiar careers or further study. So what is the difference? 

[dcc]

Cool kids do science.

[Gloamglozer]

Cool kids do science.

Awesome kids to maths. 

[taiga]

I actually don't know.

The majority of kids in Biomedicine are aspiring to do med, but the usefulness of majors out of a Biomed degree don't differ a whole lot from science (and I also question their applicability).

I think it is a case of using up one's ATAR "points".

You should have an equal chance of getting into Medicine from Science as you do from Biomedicine, but if you fail to do that through science there are still a whole bunch of fields you can go into.

[Russ]

The difference is to do with the journey, not the destination.

e, most of the differences aren't dealbreakers, if you really want a list then PM me I guess and I'll write them up

[JinXi]

THE NAMEEE

[jenerator]

hmmmm, interesting. I still dont get why biomed is so popular. My aim is dentistry or physio, what will be an appropriate course?

[Russ]

High school students see the word medicine and refuse to consider anything else.

If your aim is dentistry or physio, I would aim for biomed but not worry about ending up in science. It also depends on how much of an interest you have in the health science field in general

[slothpomba]

Biomed isn't really that different from science.

You can take more or less equivalent subjects in a science degree as you can in biomed.

In science you would take "Chemistry" in a biomed degree you would take "Chemistry for Biomedicine". It takes out a couple of the things that aren't relevant to biomed but most of the content is 99% the same. I'd like to stress this again, almost all the content is more or less the same, so i wouldn't stress. Same deal with biology, the kids in a normal science degree might learn about plants a little more or something whereas the biomed kids don't but again, its more or less the same. I wouldn't worry.

My one big peeve about the biomed course is, there are a lot of core subjects. They make you take a lot of things and most uni's make you take some kind of math/stats along with a couple other subjects. In science, there aren't really many "core" requirements, well, in similar nature to biomed anyway. You don't have to take that stats or physics for biomed subject you don't want to in science, whereas in biomed you probably would. For this reason, i'd choose science. Just slightly more flexible.

Again, they're more or less the same though.

If you can get into biomed, cool. Do that. If you can't or you don't want to, science will pretty much serve you just as well.