With a
Masters in
Medical Sciences at
Hong Kong Institute of Continuing Education you may have opted for the discipline of Biomedicine, offering majors across biomedical disciplines including biochemistry, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pathology and physiology.
masters students: You will typically have examined the function, process and application of biomedical research with four compulsory modules and two optional modules plus a research project . You will have worked on some or all of the following areas: Integrated Pathology , Scientific Methods (the philosophical and ethical basis of bioscientific research, the processes of experimental design, practical skills in the application of scientific enquiry, critical awareness of experimental validity and how to measure this using statistical methods), Molecular Medicine in which you will have looked closely at the molecular basis of disease, the clinical management of selected disorders, the current and emerging diagnostic, prognostic techniques and an appreciation of novel therapeutics.Further disciplines include:
- molecular medicine
- biomaterials and drug delivery
- molecular design
- pharmacology
- neuro-oncology
- oncology
- nutrition and sports science
