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Medical science graduates use their extensive knowledge and practical skills to improve the wellbeing of others. Through ground-breaking research and direct patient care, medical professionals cure illness and prevent or manage chronic disease.

Be equipped with the foundational knowledge and experience to make an impact in your chosen area of specialisation.

UOW College provides pathways to Medical and Science degrees at UOW.

The Diploma of Medical and Health Sciences is a higher education diploma that provides entry into the second year of several health sciences bachelor’s degrees at UOW. 

The Diploma of Science is a higher education diploma that provides entry into the second year of a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Marine Science at UOW.

Health care has been the biggest provider of new jobs in Australia and is projected to contribute 14.9% of employment growth from 2018 to 2023. UOW produces graduates who are committed to improving the health of individuals, communities and populations.

  • Doctor 
  • General practitioner
  • Allied health professional
  • Biomedical researcher 
  • Health administrator 
  • Health promotion officer
  • Health worker 
  • Industry health worker 
  • Laboratory technician 
  • Sports scientist 
  • Scientific researcher

Read more: what can I do with my degree?

Study close to home

UOW has eight Australian campuses located across Wollongong, Sydney, and regional centres of the NSW South Coast and Highlands. If you're looking to study close to home, take a look at the UOW campus in your region.

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Go beyond the textbook:

  • Practical placements are built into our industry accredited degrees. Every clinical placement will develop the practical skills that you need to become a sought after graduate.
  • Human anatomy laboratory: Anatomy classes at UOW offer real-life experience with human cadavers.
  • Clinical learning labs: Our clinical learning laboratories use leading technology to give you the closest experience to seeing real patients.

UOW students work in the UOW Medicine Clinical Skills Simulation Lab

Discover your passion, then develop the specialist skills that employers want:

  • Common first year: Undergraduate students have the chance to try study areas before selecting a major in second year.
  • A choice of majors: Undergraduates studying the Bachelor of Pre-Medicine, Science and Health can choose to major in Biomedical Research, Medical Science, Molecular Medicine, Exercise Science or Nutrition.
  • Diverse graduates: At UOW, the skills you will learn are highly-transferable across a range of careers. We focus on producing graduates who can work in a diversity of health care settings including rural and regional Australian, as well as internationally.

UOW medicine lecturer shows a brain to students

A degree from UOW opens doors:

  • Industry collaboration: UOW has a strong research reputation in collaboration with industry. You'll study in the home of ground-breaking health and medicine research.
  • Access to experts: You'll learn first-hand from professional dietitians, nurses, doctors, exercise physiologists, medical scientists, health administrators and researchers.
  • Be rewarded: Earn an industry sponsored scholarship.
  • Give back: From your first year, you will have opportunities to participate in a wide range of volunteer and enrichment activities in the community. These will assist you in developing real-world skills and ready for a career in health and medicine.
  • Get noticed: Gain valuable real-world experience, and make professional connections that will help launch your career, with a professional health placement.

IHMRI Professors look at a test tube in a medical research laboratory

Earn a recognised qualification:

Students walking through campus in graduation gowns

 

Elevate your studies:

  • Challenge yourself: Medicine is potentially one of the most exciting and challenging of all professions. Our postgraduate curriculum reflects the latest approach to medical education, and incorporates extensive use of existing and emerging information technologies.
  • Doctor of Medicine: UOW undergraduate medicine degrees lead seamlessly on to our four year Doctor of Medicine program. This degree incorporates 2760 hours of practical placements to prepare graduates to practise medicine under supervision as interns, or continue specialist training in any area of medicine.
  • The home of research: You have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to health and medicine through a masters of doctorate level research degree. You'll benefit from studying in a university that is deeply immersed in medical research - and the home of the Molecular Horizons facility.

Student experience

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Study abroad and exchange
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Moving to Wollongong

Meet Jordan

I felt the medical and health science degree would provide me with the best foundation to make the transition into my goal of studying postgraduate medicine fairly seamless. I’ve had so many opportunities including volunteering as a dissector in the anatomy lab, studying in New York for a semester and participating in an internship at the Innovation Campus. It was really cool to be in the presence of leading academics. Jordan FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT. BACHELOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES (HONOURS) (DEAN'S SCHOLAR)