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Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Welcome to the presentation on the UWA undergraduate Major in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

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Majors in Bachelor of Science

• Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing
• Agricultural Science
• Anatomy and Human Biology
• Applied Computing
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Biomedical Science
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Conservation Biology
• Engineering Science
• Environmental Science
• Exercise and Health
• Genetics
• Geography
• Geology
• Marine Science
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Microbiology and Immunology
• Natural Resource Management
• Neuropsychology and Cognitive Science
• Neuroscience
• Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Pharmacology
• Physics
• Physiology
• Population Health
• Quantitative Methods
• Science Communication
• Sports Science
• Zoology

Our Major is one that sits within the Bachelor of Science. The range of Majors that can be taken within the Bachelor of Science is very broad as you can see here, so in this presentation I’m only going to mention a few of them. The Majors marked in purple are the ones that are administered by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is one of them. You can also take Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as a second Major as part of a Major Biomedical

• Science. We’ll take a look at that option later when we view the study plans.

Slide 3 Degree-specific Majors

• If you take any of these

majors as degree-specific majors, you will need to also take the complementary units, where they exist

Like with any of the Majors in New Courses, if you take one of these Majors as your degree-specific Major, you must also take the complementary units that go with it.

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Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is the bridge between Science and Medicine

PaLM

So what is Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, or PaLM? PaLM is the bridge between Science and Medicine. In many of the departments and laboratories working in pathology and laboratory medicine, the staff are made up of a combination of scientists and doctors working together. That’s why in the PaLM Major, you will be taught by both scientists AND doctors.

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PaLM is multi-disciplinary

Our goal: to understand, diagnose and treat disease

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is multi-disciplinary in nature. That means to look at a single case, we will use a combination of techniques from disciplines such as Biochemistry, Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Anatomical Pathology and Haematology. The PaLM Major covers all these areas, so students learn to appreciate how information from a variety of methods can come together to help us understand, diagnose and treat disease.

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Stay local University Post-doc

Graduate careers

PaLM Honours PhD Research Laboratory Dentistry Podiatry Study Medicine Diagnostic Go global

PaLM graduates have a wide variety of career options. Some will pursue research, starting with Honours, then either entering a PhD and maybe a a post-doc position, or finding a job in a research lab or in a University

• department. Others will take up further study, in Graduate Medicine, or other

specialisations such as Dentistry or Podiatry. Some graduates will work in diagnostic labs. Some of our graduates stay here in Perth while others move

• verseas. If you like the idea of travel, it’s possible to do your Honours or PhD

project overseas too! Studying a PaLM Major will give you a good grounding in all of these areas, so you will have the flexibility to move between them: as workforce demands change, our graduates go where the jobs are.

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In what ways can you study Pathology and Laboratory Medicine?

• As a single major or primary major in the

BSc Degree

• As a second major in B Arts, B Design
• r B Com
• As a discipline-specific Major in the Biomedical

Science double Major

So, how can you study the Major in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine? First

• f all, you can take the PaLM Major as your only Major or as your degree-

specific Major in a Bachelor of Science degree. You could take PaLM as your second Major, either as part of a BSc or through

• ne of the other degrees offered at UWA.

Or you could choose PaLM as your discipline-specific Major in the Biomedical Science double Major. Let’s take a look at these options in more detail.

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Study plan for the PaLM Major Single or primary Major

Study plan can be found at: http://handbooks.uwa.edu.au/majors/bp004/mjdplmed

Here is the study plan for Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as a primary

• Major. In first year you will take units in Biology, Chemistry and Molecular
• Biology. The units CHEM1004 and SCIE1106 are compulsory in the PaLM Major,

regardless of whether you are taking PaLM as your degree-specific or primary Major, or whether you take PaLM as a second Major. The units BIOL1130 and CHEM1003 are complementary units, so these are only required if PaLM is your degree-specific Major. If you are taking PaLM as your degree-specific Major, you will take two further complementary units during second year. PaLM-specific units begin in second year, with a core program of four units. In PATH2202 you will study the fundamentals of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and will get a solid grounding in the basis of human disease. PATH2201 discusses human disease in more detail, covering all the systems of the body. At third year, you will study advanced Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the unit PATH3303, which will include complex interactions and molecular aspects of disease. The core program finishes off with Applied Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the unit PATH3306, where you will learn to apply multiple approaches to solve real-world diagnostic and research questions. The last two units that make up the PaLM Major are Options units. We are currently offering four units to choose from: these are Immunology and Immunopathology, Medical Genetics, Oncobiology and Biotherapeutics and Regenerative Medicine. You will choose two of these four options, to give you the opportunity to study these specific aspects of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in greater detail.

Slide 9 Study plan for the PaLM Major

As part of the Biomedical Science Major

Study plan can be found at: http://handbooks.uwa.edu.au/majors/bp004/mjdbioms

If you study Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as part of the Biomedical Science Major, you will take three of the four units offered in the PaLM Major

• core. These are the units in Human Disease, and Advanced followed by

Applied Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. You will also take two of the four options described on the previous slide. If you would like to look at these study plans in detail, they can all be found in the handbook available on the UWA website.

Slide 10 What about broadening units?

If you are not taking a science major as your degree-specific major here is a list of units you can take as Category A broadening units…

If your degree lies outside Science, you might be interested in some of the broadening units the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences has to offer.

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Cat A Broadening units offered by FMDHS

• IMED2200 Mental Wellbeing

for Today's World

• PHAR1110 Drugs that

Changed the World

• PUBH1102 Health and

Globalisation

• PUBH2209 Plagues, Pox and

Pandemics: the History of Death and Disease

• SCIE2100 Social

Responsibility in Action http://handbooks.uwa.edu.au/

We have broadening units in mental health, pharmacology, public health and also the social sciences.

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Cat A Broadening units from the Science Faculties

• ANHB1102 Human Biology II:

Being Human

• ANHB2215 Biological

Anthropology: Human Adaptation and Variation

• ANHB3321 Biological

Anthropology: Genes and Society

• EART1105 The Dynamic Planet
• EART1108 Globalisation,

Environment and Development

• ECON1120 Environmental

Economics

• ENSC1001 Engineering

Challenges in a Global World

• ENSC2601 A Critical Theory of

Technological Development

• MATH1601 Mathematics,

Culture and Everyday Life

• PLNG1101 Geographies of

Global Cities

• STAT1520 Economic and

Business Statistics

• SSEH2230 The Spirit of Sport

And of course, there are many broadening units you can take within the Faculties of Science.

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Thank you from PaLM

Hopefully this presentation gave you a better idea of what you can expect from studying a PaLM Major. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to come and talk to us. Thanks for listening and we hope to see you here at UWA!