StudyQA — Bachelor: Global Health and Social Medicine

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Global Health & Social Medicine is the ideal degree for students seeking to make a difference to improving health and wellbeing, locally and globally, by shaping effective health policies and health care delivery systems. Many of our students take our programme as a path to medical training, to better understand the social context in which they will practise medicine, and make them more well-rounded physicians.

Key benefits

We offer excellent opportunities to study social aspects of health and medicine in a multi-disciplinary context with close collaboration between the social sciences, life sciences and biomedicine.
The chance to combine high-level social science with an introduction to the main areas of biomedical knowledge and the implications for clinical practice.
Our study programmes are delivered by internationally renowned clinicians and academics with a strong focus on transdisciplinary education in key areas of health, disease and medicine.

Year 1

Required Modules

You will take the following core modules:

4SSHM001 Introduction to Global Health 1 (15 credits)
4SSHM002 Introduction to Global Health 2 (15 credits)
4SSHM003 Introduction to Social Medicine 1 (15 credits)
4SSHM004 Introduction to Social Medicine 2 (15 credits)
4SSHM005 SSHM Research Practice and Design Studio (30 credits)
Introduction To Global Health 1
Introduction To Global Health 2
Introduction to Social Medicine 1
Introduction to Social Medicine 2
SSHM Research Practice & Design Studio

Optional Modules

Students must choose one of the following pathways which they will then follow for the duration of the programme (three years):

Ageing
Neuroscience
Pharmacology

The year one modules for each pathway are:

Ageing

Cell Biology & Neuroscience (15 credits)
Genetics & Molecular Biology (15 credits)

Neuroscience

Cell Biology & Neuroscience (15 credits)
Fundamentals of Pharmacology (15 credits)

Pharmacology

Fundamentals of Pharmacology (15 credits)
Biochemistry (15 credits)

Year 2

Required Modules

Students take the following core modules:

5SSHM001 Key Concepts in Global Health (30 credits)
5SSHM002 Key Concepts in Social Medicine (30 credits)
5SSHM003 Case Studies in Global Health & Social Medicine (15 credits)
5SSHM004 The Dissertation Laboratory (15 credits)
Key Concepts In Global Health
Key Concepts in Social Medicine

Optional Modules

Students take further modules within one of the following pathways:

Ageing

The Immune System in Health & Disease (15 credits)
Human Nutrition (15 credits)

Neuroscience

Neuroscience (30 credits)

Pharmacology

Drugs & Disease (various)
Physiology & Pharmacology of the CNS (15 credits)

Second year students also have the opportunity to extend their degree programme and study abroad for their full third year. Partner institutions currently include:

University of North Carolina
University of Melbourne
Western University

Year 3

Required Modules

SSHM001 Contemporary Crises in Global Health & Social Medicine (15 credits)
6SSHM005 Dissertation in Global Health & Social Medicine (30 credits)

Optional Modules

You will take 30 credits from your chosen biomedical pathway and a further 45 credits from a range of options such as:

6SSHM002 Social Aspects of Genomics & Personalised Medicine (15 credits)
6SSHM003 Ageing: a Global Perspective (15 credits)
6SSHM004 War, Mental Health & Social Ruptures (tbc)

The Attestat o Srednam Obrazov is not considered suitable for direct entry to our undergraduate degrees without further study (such as international A-levels, IB, or the first year of a degree with high grades in any compulsory subjects). Please consider our International Foundation Programmes (see below) as a route to our undergraduate degrees.
Students with the High School certificate should consider applying for our International Foundation Programmes.
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