Bachelor of Medical Sciences
{{short description|Academic degree}}
A Bachelor of Medical Sciences (BMedSci, BMedSc, BSc(Med), BMSc) is an undergraduate academic degree involving study of a variety of disciplines related to human health leading to an in depth understanding of human biology and associated research skills such as study design, statistics and laboratory techniques. Such disciplines include biochemistry, cell biology, physiology, pharmacology or psychosocial aspects of health. It is an equivalent level qualification to the more commonly awarded Bachelor of Science (BSc). Graduates may enter a diverse range of roles including post-graduate study, higher education, the biotechnology industry, the pharmaceutical industry, consultancy roles, scientific communication, education or unrelated disciplines which make use of the broad range of transferable skills gained through this degree.
Australia
In Australia, the Bachelor of Medical Sciences (BMedSc) degree is offered by The University of Adelaide,{{Cite web|title=Health and Medical Sciences {{!}} Degree Finder|url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/degree-finder/2020/ug/healthsci/|website=www.adelaide.edu.au|access-date=2020-05-02}} Griffith University,{{cite web|url=https://www148.griffith.edu.au/programs-courses/Program/OverviewAndFees?ProgramCode=1280|title=Bachelor of Medical Science (1280)|first=Griffith|last=University|website=griffith.edu.au}} University of New South Wales,{{Cite web |url=http://www.science.unsw.edu.au/future-students/bachelor-medical-science |title=Bachelor of Medical Science | UNSW Science |access-date=2013-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211071315/http://www.science.unsw.edu.au/future-students/bachelor-medical-science |archive-date=2013-12-11 |url-status=dead }} University of Sydney,{{cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/courses/Bachelor-of-Medical-Science|title=Bachelor of Science (Medical Science)|website=The University of Sydney|access-date=5 April 2018}} Monash University,{{cite web|url=http://www.med.monash.edu.au/medical/northernvic/bmedsci.html|title=School of Medicine|website=School of Medicine|access-date=5 April 2018}} Australian National University,{{cite web|url=http://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/BMEDS|title=Bachelor of Medical Science - ANU|website=programsandcourses.anu.edu.au|access-date=5 April 2018}} University of Western Sydney,{{Cite web |url=http://future.uws.edu.au/future_students_home/ug/medicine/medical |title=Bachelor of Medical Science | University of Western Sydney (UWS) |access-date=2014-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701081842/http://future.uws.edu.au/future_students_home/ug/medicine/medical |archive-date=2014-07-01 |url-status=dead }} University of Newcastle,{{Cite web |url=http://www.newcastle.edu.au/degrees/bachelor-of-medical-science/handbook |title=Handbook / Bachelor of Medical Science / Degrees / The University of Newcastle, Australia |access-date=2013-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211182434/http://www.newcastle.edu.au/degrees/bachelor-of-medical-science/handbook |archive-date=2013-12-11 |url-status=dead }} Flinders University,{{cite web|url=http://www.flinders.edu.au/courses/undergrad/bms/|title=Bachelor of Medical Science|website=www.flinders.edu.au|access-date=5 April 2018}} Charles Sturt University,{{cite web|url=http://courses.mq.edu.au/undergraduate/degree/bachelor-of-medical-sciences|title=MQU Program Finder|website=courses.mq.edu.au|access-date=5 April 2018}} Macquarie University ,{{cite web|url=http://www.csu.edu.au/courses/undergraduate/medical_science/course-overview|title=Bachelor of Medical Science (with specialisations)|last=Marketing|website=Charles Sturt University: Courses|access-date=5 April 2018}} Central Queensland University{{cite web |url=http://content.cqu.edu.au/Handbook/programs_1.jsp;jsessionid=34702119ca41df75806e2a13335df3a5de6b15f9c4e501f862aeb955b41edd2d.e3eLaNuSahyRe34NbhuPbN0Pay1ynknvrkLOlQzNp65In0?code=CG93 |title=CQUniversity Student Handbook |website=content.cqu.edu.au |access-date=26 January 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131207003224/http://content.cqu.edu.au/Handbook/programs_1.jsp;jsessionid=34702119ca41df75806e2a13335df3a5de6b15f9c4e501f862aeb955b41edd2d.e3eLaNuSahyRe34NbhuPbN0Pay1ynknvrkLOlQzNp65In0?code=CG93 |archive-date=7 December 2013 |url-status=dead}} and The University of the Sunshine Coast.
Canada
At the University of Western Ontario, BMSc is a four-year degree offered by the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. It is differentiated from a BSc due to the advanced medical sciences orientation of the courses offered such as Anatomy and Pharmacology.{{cite web|url=http://www.schulich.uwo.ca/bmsc|title=Bachelor of Medical Sciences - Western University|website=www.schulich.uwo.ca|access-date=5 April 2018}}
The University of Alberta offers a BMSc to Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry students who did not complete a bachelor's degree prior to entry into the program.
India
In India, BMSc is an undergraduate degree offered by top universities like Panjab University, Punjabi University, Indian Institutes of Technology and the R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital.
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the Bachelor of Medical Sciences degree can be awarded in four situations; firstly as a standalone 3-year first degree, secondly, as a consequence of taking an extra year during a medical or dental course (termed intercalating), thirdly as an additional part of a medical degree but without any additional years of study, and fourthly as an exit award if a student wishes to leave their primary medical or dental undergraduate course. When the degree is obtained without any additional years of study, it may not be viewed as an equivalent qualification. For example, the UK Foundation Programme Office (the British body which manages first jobs for new medical graduates) places less value on a BMedSc degree if an additional year of study has not been undertaken.FP/AFP 2016 Foundation Programme Reference Guide (pdf) available from http://www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/download.asp?file=FP_Reference_Guide_2016_V2-1.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117132426/http://www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/download.asp?file=FP_Reference_Guide_2016_V2-1.pdf |date=2018-01-17 }} Regardless of the way in which the degree is obtained, a research project typically forms a large component of the degree as well as formal teaching in medical science related disciplines.
Bachelor of Medical Sciences degrees are awarded as a standalone 3-year course by the University of Chester,{{cite web|url=https://www1.chester.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/medical-science-bmedsci|title=Medical Sciences BMedSci - Undergraduate Study - University of Chester |website=www.chester.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}} University of Exeter,{{cite web|url=http://www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/medicalsci/medicalsci/|title=Medical Sciences BSc - Undergraduate Study - University of Exeter|website=www.exeter.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}} University of Birmingham,{{cite web|url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/med/medical-sci.aspx|title=BSc Biomedical Science - B900 - Undergraduate Study - University of Birmingham|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}} the University of Sheffield,{{cite web|url=http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/prospectus/courses-az.do?prospectusYear=2014|title=Undergraduate prospectus 2018|website=www.sheffield.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}} Bangor University,{{cite web|url=http://www.bangor.ac.uk/sms/undergraduate.php.en?view=course&prospectustype=undergraduate&courseid=447&subjectarea=47|title=Undergraduate Courses: School of Medical Sciences, Bangor University|first=Bangor|last=University|website=www.bangor.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}} Oxford Brookes University,{{Cite web |url=http://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying-at-brookes/courses/undergraduate/2013/medical-science/ |title=Medical Science - Oxford Brookes University |access-date=2014-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202175342/http://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying-at-brookes/courses/undergraduate/2013/medical-science/ |archive-date=2014-02-02 |url-status=dead }} De Montfort University,{{cite web|url=http://www.dmu.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate-courses/medical-science.aspx|title=Medical Science BMedSci (Hons)|website=www.dmu.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}} and the University of St Andrews.{{cite web|url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/medicine/|title=Medicine|website=www.st-andrews.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}} Medical schools which award an intercalated Bachelor of Medical Sciences after an additional year of study are Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry,{{cite web|url=http://www.smd.qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/intercalated/|title=Intercalated degrees - Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry|website=www.smd.qmul.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}} the University of Birmingham,{{cite web|url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/mds/undergraduate.aspx|title=Undergraduate Medicine - Dentistry - Pharmacy - Nursing - Biomedical Science degrees - University of Birmingham - University of Birmingham|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk}} the University of Dundee,{{cite web|url=http://medicine.dundee.ac.uk/intercalated-degree-bmsc|title=Intercalated Degree (BMSc) - School of Medicine|website=medicine.dundee.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331062912/http://medicine.dundee.ac.uk/intercalated-degree-bmsc|archive-date=31 March 2017|url-status=dead}} the University of Edinburgh{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/medicine-vet-medicine/undergraduate/medicine/mbchb/intercalated-honours|title=Intercalated honours programme|website=ed.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}} the University of Aberdeen and the University of Sheffield.{{cite web|url=http://www.shef.ac.uk/medicine/prospective_ug/mbchb/course_structure/intercal|title=Undergraduate courses: Intercalated bachelor of me - Course Structure - Medical Degree - Prospective Undergraduates - The Medical School - The University of Sheffield|first=University of|last=Sheffield|website=www.shef.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}}
The University of Nottingham{{cite web|url=http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ugstudy/courses/medicine/medicine.aspx|title=Medicine - The University of Nottingham|website=www.nottingham.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}} and the University of Southampton{{cite web|url=http://www.southampton.ac.uk/medicine/undergraduate/index.page|title=Undergraduate - Medicine - University of Southampton|website=www.southampton.ac.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}} award the degree as a standard part of their undergraduate medicine courses without an additional year of study (students must undertake a research project).
Egypt
In Egypt, the bachelor of medical sciences is awarded after four years of study in addition to an internship year in which interns are trained in multiple public and university hospitals.
The degree is offered in five universities in Egypt: October 6 University,{{Cite web|url=http://www.o6u.edu.eg|title=O6U UNIVERSITY|website=www.o6u.edu.eg|access-date=2018-07-25}} Misr University for Science and Technology,{{Cite web|url=http://www.must.edu.eg|title=MUST-Misr University for Science & Technology|website=www.must.edu.eg|access-date=2018-07-25}} Pharos University in Alexandria,{{Cite web|url=http://www.pua.edu.eg|title=Pharos University in Alexandria|website=Pharos University|access-date=2018-07-25}} Beni-Suef University{{Cite web|url=http://www.bsu.edu.eg|title=جامعة بنى سويف|website=www.bsu.edu.eg|access-date=2018-07-25}} and Menoufia University.{{Cite web|url=http://www.menofia.edu.eg|title=جــــامـــعة المنـــوفية|website=www.menofia.edu.eg|access-date=2018-07-25}} Faculties of applied medical sciences offer various disciplines for students to choose from, including medical laboratories, radiology and medical imaging, therapeutic nutrition, and biomedical equipment.
In 2015, the Central Authority For Organization and Administration (CAOA) granted the holders of the bachelor of medical sciences the title of "specialist" in the corresponding specialty.
Israel
BSc.Med is granted by all six medical schools in Israel: the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University, the Technion, Bar-Ilan University and Ariel University. The full M.D. program consists of six years of studies and an additional year of internship. The first part of the program consists of three years of basic science (pre-clinical) studies, culminating in the award of a BSc.Med degree in medical sciences.{{Cite web |last=Solutions |first=Traffico-Software |title=לימודי רפואה - רוצה להיות רופא? - אתר לימודים בישראל |url=https://www.study.co.il/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99_%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%90%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=study.co.il |language=he-IL}}