BM1003 - Biomedicine in the Tropics

Credit points:	03
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Administered by:	School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences

This subject considers issues that may confront a graduate biomedical scientist. Students will learn a variety of core research skills, both theoretical and practical. Topics covered will include methods of database searching, information retrieval from published literature and report writing. The subject explores the diversity of disciplines and options for students studying biomedicine including medical laboratory science and other laboratory-based careers. A focus of the subject is preparing students for a research career particularly within a tropical/regional context. An introduction to laboratory function is followed by teaching in professional ethics, biosafety and experimental design. Practical experience will be gained through a combination of workshops and placement in teaching and research laboratory environments.

Learning Outcomes

• Becoming familiar with the diversity of research options within the field of biomedicine;
• Become competent at design, preparation and submission of research proposals;
• Understand the relevance of ethics and its application to research design;
• Become proficient in a variety of laboratory-based skills, which are core to researchers.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse.

Prerequisites:

BM1001

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 29-Aug-2013
Coordinator:	Dr Brenda Govan
Lecturers:	Assoc. Professor Jeffrey Warner, Ms Donna Rudd, Professor James Burnell.
Contact hours:	39 hours lectures 39 hours workshops/Seminars 20 hours professional experience
Assessment:	presentations (10%); tutorial attendance and participation (25%); essays (25%); assignments (20%); (20%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Satisfactory completion of placement components. Satisfactory completion of competency tasks.

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