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BM-D01
Capstone Research Project
This module provides an opportunity for students to conduct an independent research project in biomedical science field, developing essential skills for academic and professional research. The module builds on the knowledge and skills developed in teaching components in part one of their relevant programme. With expert supervision, students will design, execute, and critically evaluate a research study, integrating advanced methodologies and analytical techniques in order to critically explore and add to the evidence base for a topic of relevance to their area of study.
Throughout the module and the conducting of the Capstone Research project, students will be supported by their supervisors to ensure the research design considers the principles of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) as well as the application and implementation of sustainable practice to ensure their research projects can contribute to global health and environmental challenges.
Students can be supervised in Welsh on this module.
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BM-M00
Biomedical Sciences in Healthcare
This module equips students with an opportunity to critically explore the evolving role of biomedical sciences in the delivery and provision of health care, in a local and global context. Furthermore it equips you the knowledge on key professional standards to critically explore the importance of IBMS and HCPC practice standards, ethical principles and regulatory frameworks to inform patient care, to gain an understanding of the lived patient experience, insight into working as part of a multidisciplinary team and to critically explore professionalism within healthcare delivery that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI).
This module is designed to provide you with the opportunity to develop your personal and professional development skills to inform and support the application of your knowledge, your experiences, and your reflective practice skills to inform the formation of professionalism competencies and your emerging professional identity as aspiring biomedical, healthcare or life scientists.
Through critical analysis and the application of reflective practice frameworks, you will develop critical self-awareness (personal and professional) to explore leadership, communication, teamwork and to critically evaluate the importance of quality management, risk assessment and the laboratory accreditation process to ensure analytical outcomes are accurate and precise. Furthermore, the module will explore the importance of digital technologies, informatics, and data science to consider how practice can be adaptive to emerging knowledge and new technologies that will inform the future trends in biomedical sciences.
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BM-M01
Concepts and Context of Biomedical Sciences
This module has been designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge and principle concepts of biomedical science from a scientific and practice basis. The module will cover the following key topics:¿¿
- Human Anatomy and Physiology ¿ across the life span¿
- Good laboratory practice and Sustainability¿
- Key principles of cellular pathology, clinical biochemistry, medical microbiology, clinical immunology, clinical genetics and haematology¿
- Quality Management: Internal Quality Control (IQC), External Quality Assessment (EQA) and risk management
This module provides students with an opportunity to further develop and explore the fundamental concepts and context of biomedical sciences across the various discipline subject areas, with a primary focus on developing their technical skill competency, adherence with professional standards, embedding the principles of evidence-based practice and the integration of core biomedical science knowledge using a patient-centred clinical case study approach.
The module will support students to actively engage with real-world case studies to apply the fundamental knowledge and technical skills to develop their diagnostic decision making, understanding of the various analytical techniques and develop a proactive approach to applying their problem-solving skills to complex problems. Throughout the module, the theme of professional development and patient experience is highlighted in a syllabus that is focused on quality assurance, laboratory safety and sustainability, data governance, data interpretation, the principles of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), adherence to professional practice standards, ethical practice and the multidisciplinary context of healthcare based on a patient-centred approach.
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BM-M02
Practice and Application of Biomedical Sciences
This module has been designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge and principle concepts of biomedical science from a scientific and practice basis. The module will cover the following key topics across the life span:
1. Human Anatomy, physiology and pathology
2. Pharmacology and Toxicology
3. Key principles of cell pathology, clinical biochemistry, clinical microbiology, clinical immunology, clinical genetics and transfusion science
4. Quality Management Systems
5. Near-patient testing (NPT)/Point of Care Testing
This module provides students with an opportunity to further develop and explore the fundamental practical and applied aspects of biomedical sciences across the various discipline subject areas, with a primary focus on developing their technical skill competency, adherence with professional standards, embedding the principles of evidence-based practice and the integration of core biomedical science knowledge using a patient-centred clinical case study approach.
The module will support students to actively engage with real-world case studies to apply the fundamental knowledge and technical skills to develop their diagnostic decision making, understanding of the various analytical techniques and develop a proactive approach to applying their problem-solving skills to complex problems. Throughout the module, the theme of professional development and patient experience is highlighted in a syllabus that is focused on quality assurance, laboratory safety and sustainability, data governance, data interpretation, the principles of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), adherence to professional practice standards, ethical practice and the multidisciplinary context of healthcare based on a patient-centred approach.
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BM-M04
Clinical Biochemistry - Metabolism and Nutrition
This module offers an in-depth exploration of clinical biochemistry as it relates to nutrition, metabolic disorders, and diagnostic science. It covers essential topics including nutritional requirements, fluid and electrolyte balance, bone and mineral metabolism, lipid metabolism, gastrointestinal disorders, and specific protein analysis. The curriculum extends to the biochemical basis and laboratory diagnosis of diabetes, hypoglycaemia, inherited metabolic disorders, and acid-base disturbances. Emphasis is placed on laboratory roles in clinical diagnosis, sample interpretation, and monitoring treatment strategies. Practical laboratory sessions in lipid analysis and blood gas interpretation complement theoretical knowledge, while the module concludes with foundational toxicology and drug metabolism principles relevant to clinical practice.
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BM-M08
Principles and Practice of Diagnostic Histopathology
Within Histopathology there have been advances in diagnostic tests, sampling, processing techniques, and imaging. This module will explore the core and specialist techniques used in biomedical diagnostics of tissue/cell samples and how their clinical interpretation is used to direct patient management and treatment.
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BM-M09
Molecular Pathology Diagnostics
This module explores the fundamental concepts involved in the use and application of existing and emerging molecular pathology diagnostics in Biomedical Science. The module includes practical considerations and exploration of molecular techniques in disease diagnostics.
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PM-354
Cancer Pharmacology
Cancer remains a significant cause of mortality in the modern world. Current and emerging chemotherapies, and the rationale, experimental, and clinical evidence of the pathways or molecules targeted will be explored. Causes of treatment-related side effects, and the therapies used to address these, will be discussed along with the mechanisms that lead to anti-cancer drug resistance.
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PMBM06J
Fundamentals of Biomedical Sciences 2
This module has been designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge and principle concepts of biomedical science from a scientific and practice basis. The module will cover the following key topics across the life span:
¿ Human Anatomy and Physiology ¿ across the life span
¿ Good laboratory practice and Sustainability
¿ Key principles of cellular pathology, clinical biochemistry, clinical medicalmicrobiology, clinical immunology, clinical genetics and haematology
¿ Quality Management
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PMBM07
Biomedical Sciences in Healthcare
The role of biomedical sciences in the delivery and provision of health care will be explored and critically evaluated within this module. This module is designed to provide you with the fundamental and principal concepts of Health Care, specifically to support the role of Biomedical Science, from understanding the principles and organization of the NHS to exploring valued based healthcare. It will provide learning activities based around the various disciplines within biomedical science(s) within health care, explore the importance of IBMS and HCPC practice standards, understanding the patient experience, working as part of a multidisciplinary team and to critically explore professionalism within healthcare delivery.
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PMCB01
Clinical Biochemistry - Metabolism and Nutrition
This module will explore the key clinical biochemical principles that are relevant to the application of the principles of clinical biochemistry to evaluate the function of the various physiological systems, the biochemistry of the processes involved that support life; from the cellular to whole physiological systems and explore how clinical biochemistry can detect pathological dysfunction. It will critically develop your understanding of the various biochemical processes involved in the analytical detection of function and dysfunction within health and disease states across the life span.
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PMRM04
Capstone Research Project
This module builds on the knowledge and skills developed in teaching components in part one of their relevant programme. Students will work independently in order to critically explore and add to the evidence base for a topic of relevance to their area of study.
