Health Sciences (with Foundation Year)

Course overview: This course includes a foundation year - ideal if you need additional preparation or if you don't have sufficient grades to join Year 1. You gain a broad understanding of the physiology of the body’s major systems as well as human health and disease. You study the cause, diagnosis and treatment of human disease from a multidisciplinary and evidence-based perspective, which will help you with a career in a variety of healthcare and life science settings.

You study three core discipline-based themes:, human anatomy and physiology, human biology and disease, and healthcare systems and technologies, and explore how humans change over the lifespan, adapt to external stressors, and how lifestyle can have an impact on health. You research and identify potential therapeutic and clinical strategies to reduce the effect of these risk factors on disease states.

Alongside this, you develop skills for employability including good laboratory practice, control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH) assessments, health and safety policies, Human Tissues Act, quality assurance and patient care. You also develop transferrable skills including verbal and poster presentations, written reports, independent research and teamworking skills.

You study at Teesside University’s Middlesbrough campus, but during your degree you have the opportunity to gain valuable experience at the National Horizons Centre at the University’s Darlington campus which is home to a range of state-of-the-art facilities. This £22m purpose-built biosciences research, education and training facility is a focal point for the growing regional biosciences community.

Top reasons to study this course:

1. Prepare for postgraduate study: including research degrees and taught master's programmes, in fields such as public health, dietetics, physiotherapy, diagnostic radiography, radiotherapy, occupational therapy and nursing.
2. State-of-the-art facilities: gain practical skills in our £36.9m Bios facility, featuring cutting-edge labs equipped with the latest technology, allowing you to engage in hands-on experiments and research that reflects current industry practices.
3. Experienced teaching team: work alongside experienced faculty and industry professionals, enhancing your learning and giving you valuable insights into the latest advancements and challenges in biosciences.

If you are interested in applying for a course in Nursing, Midwifery & Health Professions leading to professional registration, our CertHE Health Sciences and CertHE Health Sciences (with Foundation Year) courses will help you develop your knowledge and skills in a range of subjects that will help your application.

After the course: You can apply your scientific knowledge and skills to many occupations, opening a range of potential career opportunities related to scientific/medical research, and clinical/analytical lab set up. Potential employers include health service organisations, government, local authorities, industry, charitable and international organisations. You may, for example, pursue roles in public health, health promotion and surveillance, industrial and graduate training programmes, non-governmental organisations, health service management and administration. You may gain graduate entry to further health and clinical education programmes, or undertake biomedical, pharmaceutical or health sciences research, design experiments, analyse data and publish findings, or pursue a role as a pharmaceutical, microbiological or biotechnological lab assistant.ological Laboratory Assistants and Product Development Technologist. Graduates may also seek further postgraduate study in advanced health-related subjects.