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Biomedical sciences
Summary
Biomedical sciences are a set of sciences applying portions of natural science or formal science, or both, to develop knowledge, interventions, or technology that are of use in healthcare or public health. Such disciplines as medical microbiology, clinical virology, clinical epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, and biomedical engineering are medical sciences. In explaining physiological mechanisms operating in pathological processes, however, pathophysiology can be regarded as basic science.
Biomedical Sciences, as defined by the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education Benchmark Statement in 2015, includes those science disciplines whose primary focus is the biology of human health and disease and ranges from the generic study of biomedical sciences and human biology to more specialised subject areas such as pharmacology, human physiology and human nutrition. It is underpinned by relevant basic sciences including anatomy and physiology, cell biology, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics and molecular biology, pharmacology, immunology, mathematics and statistics, and bioinformatics. As such the biomedical sciences have a much wider range of academic and research activities and economic significance than that defined by hospital laboratory sciences. Biomedical Sciences are the major focus of bioscience research and funding in the 21st century.
A sub-set of biomedical sciences is the science of clinical laboratory diagnosis. This is commonly referred to in the UK as 'biomedical science' or 'healthcare science'. There are at least 45 different specialisms within healthcare science, which are traditionally grouped into three main divisions:
specialisms involving life sciences
specialisms involving physiological science
specialisms involving medical physics or bioengineering
Molecular toxicology
Molecular pathology
Blood transfusion science
Cervical cytology
Clinical biochemistry
Clinical embryology
Clinical immunology
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Electron microscopy
External quality assurance
Haematology
Haemostasis and thrombosis
Histocompatibility and immunogenetics
Histopathology and cytopathology
Molecular genetics and cytogenetics
Molecular biology and cell biology
Microbiology including mycology
Bacteriology
Tropical diseases
Phlebotomy
Tissue banking/transplant
Virology
The healthcare science workforce is an important part of the UK's National Health Service.
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