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Are you interested in a career as a biomedical scientist, a cardiographer, a radiographer, a bioinfomatician, an audiologist or genetic scientist?
Are you interested in carrying out medical examinations on patients such as X rays, ultrasound, CT or MRI scans? Then this is the course for you! It is designed to enable you to progress to employment in hospitals or healthcare settings or to move on to study in Higher Education.
This course covers:
Five GCSEs grade 4 or above and grade 5 in Mathematics, English Language and Double or triple Science. Alternatively, you can also complete Level 2 Health and Science (Pre T level) achieving a distinction in the Science aspect alongside grade 4 in GCSE Mathematics and English.
On this course, you will study the following core units:
Specialist units:
This course will be taught in a combination of learning environments. Some lectures will take place in science laboratories, whilst others will take place in state-of-the-art facilities set up as hospital wards and healthcare settings.High-tech medical and clinical equipment will be used to enable you to understand the range of equipment used by healthcare professionals and how to use this equipment yourself.
Externally assessed exam, industrial placement, employer-set project and synoptic assessment in a healthcare setting.
On completion of this course, you will be able to go directly into employment as a healthcare assistant. You could also undertake a Higher Apprenticeship as a healthcare science associate which includes roles such as phlebotomist (taking blood), cardiographer (monitoring the heart) or a newborn hearing screener (assessing hearing in newborn babies). Alternatively, you could go on to study in Higher Education in degrees such as radiography, nuclear medicine or cardiac physiology.
You will need to complete a minimum of 315 hours of industry placement over the two-year duration of the course. This unique experience will provide you with the opportunity to develop the right skills, knowledge and behaviours in the workplace which will prepare you to move directly into employment in your chosen sector.
