Students who meet this requirement and have the support of the Head of Department to undertake Honours will be routinely nodded through. The BMedSc course involves supervised reading and laboratory work in advanced anatomy, human variation and evolution, reproductive and developmental biology, regeneration studies, genetics, neurobiology and immunobiology, with directed research in one of these fields, leading to the presentation of a dissertation for examination. Students completing their second, third or fourth year of medicine are eligible for registration and should consult the Head of Department. The Faculty of Science has the final say regarding admission of students to the Honours programme and this decision will not be made until January of the year in which the Honours programme is due to commence.
Enrolments are required to be full time, however mid-year enrolments are possible.
Every academic member of our staff is available to supervise Honours and BMedSc projects. Each year some suggested projects are circulated and advertised to third year students, however if students wish to nominate and pursue topics of their own choice, the Department is very happy to consider this option . The Department has excellent facilities for the conduct of Honours and Postgraduate research programmes. For further information and detailed discussion, please contact Associate Professor Brendan Waddell , the Honours Coordinator, or the academic supervisor of your choice.