BSc (Hons) Medical Physiology

The medical physiology course offers you an exceptional opportunity to study the complex anatomy and detailed function of the human body in both health and disease. We place a strong emphasis on learning all about the body’s structure and functions, with a particular focus on anatomy, histology, biochemistry and pharmacology. We’ll give you a practical insight into the techniques and instrumentation used to investigate the human body in varying states of health and disease, such as fitness tests, chest X-rays and electrocardiograms (ECG), which measure the electrical activity of the heart. You’ll examine life support systems and have the chance to earn a first-aid qualification. You’ll also discover what happens when body systems break down and how this can lead to disease.

Foundation Year(If Required)

• Academic & Communication Skills (core)
• Essential Maths & ICT (core)
• Human Biology (core)
• Chemistry of Life (core)

Year 1

• Professional Practice in Science (Mental Wealth) (Core)
• Essential Chemistry (Core)
• Cell Biology (Core)
• Introduction to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Core)
• Fundamentals in Human Anatomy and Physiology (Core)
• Fundamentals in Microbiology (Core)
• Level 4 Short Work Placement (Optional)

Year 2

• Infection and Immunity (Core)
• Physiological Regulation (Core)
• Fundamental & Experimental Pharmacology (Core)
• Functional Anatomy (Core)
• Cellular Biochemistry (Core)
• Research and Career Development (Mental Wealth) (Core)
• Year-Long Placement (Sandwich Year) (Optional)
• Level 5 Short Work Placement (Optional

This course offers the opportunity for year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you’ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organization, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge. The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.

Year 3

• Cellular Pathology (Core)
• Clinical Physiology (Core)
• Applied Physiology (Core)
• Research Project and Career Enhancement Portfolio (Mental Wealth) (Core)
• Neuropsychopharmacology & Emerging Therapeutics (Optional)
• Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Pharmacology (Optional)
• Toxicology (Optional)
• Exercise Physiology Techniques (Optional)
• Level 6 Short Work Placement (Optional)

Employability

We’ve worked hard to ensure that this course will be the perfect launch-pad for your future career. Employers recognize the quality of the scientists we produce at UEL and graduates of our course have landed jobs at Hammersmith Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Royal Brompton Hospital, among others. The thorough grounding you’ll receive in physiology and the transferable skills you’ll learn will open up all sorts of career avenues to you, as Isaac Mwita found. This 2012 graduate reckons the practical knowledge he acquired in investigating the workings of the human respiratory system during our course was largely responsible for securing him a job as a clinical physiologist in the lung function unit of London’s Royal Brompton Hospital. Our students have gone into a variety of jobs in clinical physiology, medicine, radiography, physiotherapy, and teaching. In addition, the industrial and pharmaceutical industries are always on the look-out for physiologists.