A Student of Biomedical Science

Biomedical Science Degree - The Route to Becoming a Registered BMS I hope this is clear to everyone that comes across my blog, but I myself am not a registered BMS (biomedical scientist). I aim to be one day, but for now I am just half-way through the first year of my BSc degree.  To become a registered biomedical science, there are quite a few steps you need to take. You need to register with the IBMS, complete training and a portfolio and become registered with the HCPC and so on... At the moment, my future plan looks very similar to the steps I've outlined in the first infographic. However, I'm very keen on trying to get onto the Applied degree route (I'll go into more detail about the different degrees in another pot, but here's just a little information.) If you were to do the Applied route, you would do your first year as a normal degree, but for your second and third years, you would work in a lab and complete the IBMS portfolio whilst studying. This, essentially...

Biomedical Science Degree - What is biomedical science? What is biomedical science? Biomedical science involves studying and understanding the causes, diagnoses, effects and treatments of illnesses and diseases - basically. A person who has studied biomedical science and has become registered with the IBMS and HCPC (I will go into more detail about these two organisations in later posts) is known as a biomedical scientist. This person's job is to carry out different tests on a range of patient samples, such as blood, urine and tissues, and to investigate any medical conditions. If you go to your doctor or hospital and they take your blood for testing, it's probably a biomedical scientist who will take that sample and see if there is anything 'wrong' with your blood.  The types of diseases a biomedical science will investigate include: Diabetes Anaemia  AIDS Cancer Viruses  During this pandemic, it's biomedical scientists who have played a vital role in looking at an...