Biomed Breadth?

[bj090044]

Hello,
I thought that I should start a thread that could not only aid myself, but other biomedicine students commencing this year. Like many,I have been cornered into a dark space not knowing what subjects to take, primarily due to the vigorous  nature of the biomedicine course and the plethora of subjects that are present. As a consequence,  trying to strike a balance between subjects that could interest me, and subjects that are basically a joke has become an awfully daunting task, considering most students in the course desire to do medicine at Melbourne and obtain/maintain high GPA's. So, I'm asking all biomed students past, present and to an extent, commencing students, what breadth subjects have you done/completed/planning to do, so we can get an idea of what paths biomed students generally take. Also, this thread is not strictly limited to biomed students, all are welcome. (but tbh, prefer that its breadth subjects that we biomed students can do.) Also, as short explanation of difficulty and enjoyability would be great. 

[Mieow]

I did Chinese 1 and Glee Singing last year. Both were polar opposites of each other but they were a lot of fun and I got amazing grades out of them.

I know a handful of biomed people who chose Finance 1 as their breadth. They complained about it all semester so I don't think it's a very enjoyable subject but most of them got good grades from it so eh

[RKTR]

I did intro micro and finance 1. If you're interested in commerce, then these two subjects shouldn't be too hard.

[bennieboy]

Well if you feel like doing something, do it! It's your chance to do something you've always loved.

That's my conscience speaking and that's what got me to choose something I 'like' to do: French! I started from scratch so I did French 1 and 2. that didn't go so well: in both semesters, French was the subject with the lowest  average and that dragged my score down (I'm pissed because I did so well in my core subjects). In retrospect, I should haven chosen something really fun and easy like Glee Singing, Choir, or the absolute joke African drumming, or even volunteer or school experience - they are good ones that actually give your transcript some extra-curricular stuff but don't require too much work. I heard of people getting 98% average for school experience. So definitely recommend it so that you can tackle the core subjects of Biomed.

[auds]

So far I've done:

• Business Law
• Body, Mind and Medicine
• Wellbeing, Motivation, Performance

Blaw is a really good intro to law, and assessment is all MCQ. I really enjoyed this subject, the lecturer I had (in Sem 1) was great, although I heard the lecturer for Sem 2 wasn't as good.

BMM was definitely interesting - it's mainly about medical history, how medicine has evolved over the centuries from a very patient-orientated view to a more research-orientated view, and how as a society we've recognized this and are trying to move back. Also hones in on specific areas like psychiatry, women's health, medical scandals. I loved this subject for interest's sake, assessment was harder though for me because it was an arts-based subject.

WMP is about positive psychology - it's really practical and changes your perspective on different things (like gratitude, strengths, relationships) and encourages/gives you strategies on how you can improve your wellbeing. I've loved this subject as well haha