Medicine & Health

Medicine and Health is a wide area of research that deals with the development of knowledge that will enable human beings and animals to cure and prevent any illnesses and diseases. Medicine and Health degrees cover sub-disciplines such as Biomedicine, Public Health, Human Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Health Management, and Nutrition. Students in medicine and health will undergo supervised medical practice or internship, followed by a residency at a health care hospital, where they observe first-hand medical activities and practice. While studying Medicine and Health degrees you will learn and explore many interesting facts and features of the human body, its anatomy, causes, prevention and cure of many diseases faced by the living creatures and many more. In order to avoid diseases from happening, it would also be your responsibility to teach people how to take better care of themselves. It is a demanding job but yet satisfying to be a health professional. To communicate effectively with your patients and to create a good working environment with your colleagues, you will need soft skills such as empathy, communication, and cooperation. Introductory information of how the human or animal body functions will be the main subject matter in the first year of medical and health degree followed by specialized knowledge of internal medicine, pediatrics, psychology and surgery which are accompanied by a specialty that you have agreed as a profession to pursue. Job options for graduates in Medicine and Health degrees can work as: cardiologist, clinical radiologist, general practice doctor, hospital doctor, neurologist, psychiatrist, surgeon and many more.