The B.Sc. in Human Health & Disease degree is a 4-year programme of multidisciplinary study and training in basic and applied biomedical science provided by the School of Medicine in partnership with the School of Biochemistry and Immunology and collaborators from across Trinity College Dublin and beyond. The degree is led and managed from The Discipline of Physiology.
Degree Objectives - To provide students with a programme focussed on developing an expert appreciation of the following;
Learning Format - Teaching is provided through a combination of lectures, practicals and tutorials. In the fourth year a research project is undertaken within the laboratory of a biomedical researcher on campus, at one of the affiliated teaching hospitals or at an ERASMUS partner university. Throughout, a major emphasis is placed on the development of proficiency in the following;
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
The curriculum is modular in structure and built around three main thematic areas namely;
The objective of the Scholarship examination in Science is to identify and reward undergraduate students having outstanding interest and ability in their chosen field. Such students should be able to demonstrate some degree of originality and flair, and not simply a high level of performance in basic coursework. Because the Scholarship examination in Science is taken by Senior Freshman students, it is based on the breadth of the Freshman Science course being following by the student. Scholars are therefore outstanding in the field of general biomedical science (or that division of it represented by the range of modules taken by the student in their Freshman years), and not in any specific discipline. An application form and Foundation Scholarship regulations can be accessed on the Examinations and Timetables Office webpage.
The examination will take the following format:
N.B. For students to be successful in the Scholarship Examination they need to achieve an overall first class aggregate mark and a first class pass in at least two of the three examination papers.
