Career outcomes After completing this major you might pursue career paths in the health profession and biomedical research, including biomedical research, universities, specialist institutes, industry, teaching, government or hospitals. The Physiology major will teach students how the body works. Students will learn about the ways in which cells, organs and the whole body function in an integrated way. By understanding normal function, students will investigate disturbances in whole body systems such as those relating to the endocrine, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, developmental and neural control systems. The experimental bases of physiology are emphasized and students will use contemporary techniques to examine questions in physiology. Discoveries in physiology have a broad impact upon health and medicine, environmental science, industry, nutrition, exercise and reproductive biology. Many of the discoveries from the human genome project rely on physiology to understand their impact on the human body. Discoveries in physiology impact on health and medicine, our environment, industry, nutrition, exercise and reproductive biology, and you could set yourself up for a career in any of these areas by understanding how cells, organs and whole-of-body functions work. Our bodies work amazingly most of the time, but what happens when something goes wrong? Learn how disturbances in the endocrine, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, developmental and neural control systems impact our health, and devise experimental studies that might help us understand what we can do to stop them. Many of the discoveries from the human genome project rely on physiology to understand their impact on the human body. This major emphasises the experimental bases of physiology, and you will and students will use contemporary techniques to examine questions in physiology. Your major structure This major can be completed through the Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of Biomedicine. BACHELOR OF BIOMEDICINE In your first year you will study 75 points of core subjects (usually six subjects) that most Biomedicine students will take to build an understanding of the structure and function of the body and consideration of the determinants of health and disease, including genetic and environmental influences. You will also undertake breadth studies. In second year you will study 50 points of core subjects made up of two semester long subjects as well as elective subjects in biomedicine or science disciplines and breadth studies. In your third year you will study 25 points (usually two subjects) of Biomedicine core subjects and 50 points (usually four subjects) that is deep and specialised study in physiology as well as other elective or breadth studies.