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Bachelor of Biomedicine (Degree with Honours) (BH-BMED) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
About this course
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Academic Coordinator:
Dr Chris French
frenchc@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
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Chris French
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the Bachelor of Biomedicine (Degree with Honours), students should be able to:
Demonstrate scientific knowledge
- Demonstrate advanced scientific knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills, and apply these capacities to address a research question and/or current issue
- Articulate the methods of science, and explain why current scientific knowledge is both contestable and testable by further inquiry.
Practise the skills required for scientific investigation
- Identify, manage and critically evaluate scientific information relevant to their own scientific investigation and/or scholarly debate
- Demonstrate the skills required for the design, implementation, and review of a research project including problem-solving and critical interpretation of data
- Identify and follow the principles of ethical scientific practice
- Work effectively, both independently and collaboratively, in the planning and delivery of scientific studies
- Communicate clearly, accurately and convincingly about science ideas, current practice and potential contributions.
Present scientific knowledge and investigation in context
- Articulate the international scope of science knowledge, practice and development and the contributions made by its diverse scholarly community
- Explain the role of science in addressing current issues facing local and global communities, including the role of both fundamental and applied research in addressing real-world challenges.
Generic skills
Graduates of the Bachelor of Biomedicine (Degree with Honours) programs will have been provided with the opportunity to develop the skills to:
- Use and evaluate scientific literature
- Apply their understanding to the design and implementation of a research plan
- Acquire, analyse, evaluate and interpret data using appropriate techniques
- Communicate advanced concepts in their discipline in written and oral form
- Exercise responsibility for their own learning
- Work effectively in teams, both collaboratively and independently
- Manage their time effectively.
Graduate attributes
The Melbourne Experience enables our Bachelor of Biomedicine (Degree with Honours) graduates to become:
Academically excellent
Our graduates will be expected to:
- Have a strong sense of intellectual integrity and the ethics of scholarship
- Have a broad knowledge of science across a range of fields, with an in-depth understanding in one or more scientific disciplines
- Understand the methods of science, and the history and evolution of scientific concepts
- Be intellectually curious and apply a rigorous, critical and logical approach to enquiry
- Understand the principles of sound project and experimental design, including data analysis, and apply this understanding to an independent research project
- Reach a high level of achievement in writing, generic research activities, problem-solving and communication
- Apply outstanding analytical, quantitative and technical skills to problem solving and, where relevant, design
- Be critical and creative thinkers, with an aptitude for continued self-directed learning
- Be adept at learning in a range of ways, including through information and communication technologies.
Knowledgeable across disciplines
Our graduates will be expected to:
- Examine critically, synthesise and evaluate knowledge across a broad range of disciplines
- Expand their analytical and cognitive skills through learning experiences in diverse subjects
- Have the capacity to participate fully in collaborative learning and to confront unfamiliar problems
- Have a set of flexible and transferable skills for different types of employment, including:
- Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills
- Ability to access, evaluate and utilise information from diverse sources
- Ability to communicate their ideas effectively in both written and verbal formats to both specialists and non-specialists
- Knowledge, skills and attitude that enable adaptation to scientific, technological and social change.
Leaders in communities
Our graduates will be expected to:
- Initiate and implement constructive change in their communities, including professions and workplaces
- Have excellent interpersonal and decision-making skills, including an awareness of personal strengths and limitations
- Mentor future generations of learners
- Engage in meaningful public discourse, with a profound awareness of community needs.
Attuned to cultural diversity
Our graduates will be expected to:
- Value different cultures
- Be well-informed citizens able to contribute to their communities wherever they choose to live and work
- Have an understanding of the social and cultural diversity in our community
- Respect indigenous knowledge, cultures and values.
Active global citizens
Our graduates will be expected to:
- Accept social and civic responsibilities
- Be advocates for improving the sustainability of the environment
- Have a broad global understanding, with a high regard for human rights, equity and ethics.
Last updated: 2 November 2024