Title: BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES WITH FOUNDATION BSc Honours

Name of Student: SHIVANI NAIK

Name of College: UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER

Response to Task 1

Ahmed, N., Glencross, H. and Wang, Q. eds., (2016). Biomedical Science Practice. Publisher: Oxford University Press

            The author in this book has given a basic introduction about what is biomedical science and its applications in treatment of diseases in humans. Different methods like the diagnosis of blood samples, urine, X-ray technique and many more have been discussed.

            This book is well written and is good for those who are new to biomedical science

Blann, A. (2018). British Journal of Biomedical Science in 2018: what have we learned?. British Journal of Biomedical Science, 76(1), pp.1-10

            In 2018, British Journal of Biomedical Science has published 40 research articles of biomedical science out of which 24 were original articles and 16 were short reports.

            This journal has been well structured and well written and kept count on the number of works done in 2018 in biomedical science.

Gunn, J., Ledford, C., Mousetes, S. and Grever, M. (2017). Biomedical Science Undergraduate Major: A New Pathway to Advance Research and the Health Professions. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 30(2), pp.184-192

            There are many students who enter in professional degree programs in biomedical science but are not well prepared regarding scientific knowledge on what exactly is biomedical science. In a period of 10 years students were interviewed and selected in Ohio State University and average ACT score was 32.6 and the pass percentage was 91%. This was done to give them an idea about biomedical science and excel in this field.

            This article is well structured but lacks a coherent data organization.

Sharp, P. and Langer, R. (2011). Promoting Convergence in Biomedical Science. Science, 333(6042), pp.527-527.

            The author states that there are many challenges in biomedical science to solve highly integrated and complexed problems in human body. Most of them are beyond knowledge and technology. Convergence is increasing and advancing in field of biomedical sciences.

            This article is well structured but lacks a coherent data organization.

Response to Task 2

            Other than coursework biomedical sciences can also be useful and applied in our daily life (both theoretically and practically) especially during routine checkups. A student of biomedical science can easily understand what is in the report of a patient especially blood report (like haemoglobin content, platelet count, bilirubin content, red blood cells and many more) and can tell whether the health of the patient is normal or not. Other than this, students can go for higher studies in this branch of science which has led to inventions of analysis and treatment of different kinds of diseases affecting human body. If it becomes successful then it could benefit society as well as it could make the student successful in life. A person can also work in different fields including patent law, consulting, public policy and science journalism and excel in these fields as well. Since biomedical science is a huge branch of medical science, there is scope for almost everything related to medical science.