okay ladies and gentlemen we might make a start we've hit 9:30 so I'd like to my name is Nicole and first of all I'd like to acknowledge and pay our respects to the Kaurna people their traditional custodians whose ancestral lands we gather on today we acknowledge the deep feelings of attachment and relationship of the kind of people to country and respect and value their past present and ongoing connection to the land and cultural beliefs so now it's my pleasure to introduce to you the program coordinators for The Bachelor of Health and Medical Sciences and the Bachelor of health Medical Sciences Advanced Associate Professor Corinna Van Den Heuvel and Dr Kathy Gatford thank you everyone I'm Corinna and okay and we tend to very much a tag-team approach to this presentation and if I forget something Kathy reminds me and vice versa so thank you for coming in on this Sunday morning and we're really thrilled to be giving this presentation and it's a program programs very close to our heart so before we get started about our specific program

 The Bachelor of Health and Medical Sciences and the advanced just need to you know talk about things that we celebrate in regards to the university and to our faculty more generally so the University of Adelaide is the third oldest university in Australia it's ranked in the top one percent of universities worldwide it is associated with five Nobel Prize winners in the top 150 and all three major international rankings we've produced many many Rhodes Scholars and we are a member of the Go8 or Group of Eight universities in Australia we have over 4,000 staff 27,000 fabulous students and27 percent of our student cohort are international students hundred countries are represented within our dynamic student population and theNorth Terrace camp is located in the heart of the Adelaide CBD which is really exciting and we saw that during the Fringe this year where we opened the doors to all the fringe festivities and it was certainly a hyperactivity we have three campuses so the campus is on North Terrace over at weight and down trustworthy

 so a little bit now specifically aboutour faculty and again exciting results we're number one in South Australia forthe life sciences and medicine degrees number one in Australia for health andmedical science research and number one in South Australia for our healthprograms medicine nursing psychology and dentistry you were meant to do that soyou don't understand because as you go right so that that medical researchstrength of our faculties provide some really great experiences for ourstudents particularly when we get to third year with the research placementsand that's real highlight of this program we're gonna tell you a bit moreabout that in detail a bit later on sure so as we said our faculty is really verystrong in health and medical research and that's been something that's beengoing for a very long time in this faculty we're very privileged to havetwo Nobel laureates having been having come out of this faculty Howard Floreywas involved in the discovery of penicillin and Robin Warren who wasdiscovered involved in the discovery of the real cause of gastric ulcers andthese outstanding alumni really have inspired a lot of people to continue inthose areas in this faculty so there are five schools within the Faculty ofHealth in meant cyber medical school dental school nursing psychology andpublic health and from our degrees perspective the exciting thing thatwe've really encompassed and embodied in in the development of our health ofmid-sized programs is that parts of our program are delivered by staff acrossall of these schools

 so there is this interdisciplinary collaboration betweenacademics from nursing from from psych ecology from medicine etc that allcontribute to teaching the students which I think gives a real breadth ofknowledge to all the students and on what our program delivers which is whichis a fantastic attribute of the of the programs again just some more rankingsin medicine we're first in the state six in Australia dentistry the same so itjust goes to show that the range of our programs are highly successful andproducing very successful graduates so where do our students go and and we'lltalk a little bit more about this when we focus specifically on our program ofHealth and mid/side but our faculty certainly has this reputation forproducing highly skilled graduates who are really well regarded in theirindustries whatever that may be we our programs are specifically designed toprovide this hands-on experience and again we'll talk about that in regardsto our capstone courses in our research placement within the health and midsizedprograms but really hands-on experience in real-world environments and give youguys and the students the opportunity to develop the skills and confidence toreally excel across a whole range of careers in health policy governmentindustry whatever that that choice is that you make 

I think that's one of thereal features of these programs in that there's a really wide range of careerpaths out of the other end so obviously you've seen that the building that's inthe middle there this is the Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences Building andwe moved down here two years ago yeah almost two years to since we startedteaching down here it's a fantastic facility brilliant teaching facilitiesand also the research that's embedded in in this building the dental simulationclinic the Ray Last laboratories there's a huge amount of cutting-edge facilitieswithin this faculty where we deliver some brilliant teaching as well as somebrilliant research so obviously you're here in the HMS heyI was right about the year this is a real investment from the University andfrom the faculty in health and medical sciences and in the research and ourteaching in these areas we have this real Adelaide's biomedical precinctbeing developed in this area so there's a very strong nexus of research andteaching and also colocation with the Royal Adelaide Hospital which is reallyimportant for both the first thing it's Emory - and summary yep okay so let'stalk about health in med Sciences so why study health and medical sciences reallywe tend to find that many students come into this program because they have areal desire to understand more about the human body how it functions what can gowrong with it if something goes wrong with it how do we treat it healthypatients healthy population then that is the real central focus about this thisprogram so you will learn about the human body improve human health work ina variety of different health settings the electives that you get to choosefrom and we'll talk about this in a little while really complement thedegree structure as well so you don't you are not just fixed to purely doinghealth-related courses you can study languages you can study philosophygender studies engineering courses so you still have those electives 

- ifyou're still unsure about where it is specifically that you want to go andalso the opportunity to study overseas and Kathy will mention this and talkabout this in a little while and then the majors that we have the seven majorsreally focus on the the current health issues that we are facing not justnationally but internationally as well and also beyond the discipline knowledgethat you gain in those areas or majors orspecialization from pathology pharmacology Public Health anatomy etcit's also this broad range of really vital skills such as communicationteamwork critiquing all of those things which are also embedded across way inyour program as well and then within the the broader health and medical programsuite the advanced students also get to be stretched in a few different areas interms of getting some clinical experience for the clinic in the firstyear course developing collaborative solutions to global health problems andwith a health technology focus in second year and then in third year with theinnovation and entrepreneurship course in health thinking about how you takethose solutions out into the real world and get them implemented but alsodeveloping again a lot of those career readiness skills and we really see theadvanced students in terms of going into leadership roles and and developingthose sorts of skills through the program other thing we are really proudof our our fabulous devoted teachers who've been nationally andinternationally recognized with teaching awards well throughout the world andtheir dynamic gone are the days of just sitting in a lecture theatre and justhad information poured at you it's it's much more than thatthere are interactive lectures as flipping classrooms there's massive openonline courses something that I'm personally really excited about as ahead of the discipline of anatomy and pathology is we have invested a hugeamount of money in new digital Anatomy technology and and these enormous iPadswhere you can actually have this scan of a human body and dissect it and takemuscles out and virtual reality so that's that's just one example that Ican share from from my discipline but it's something that we are allpassionate about as educators and it goes beyond far beyond textbooks andtextbooks are great but we also want to really immerse you in in the world of ofyou know education and I think the clinical skill suite is easyis a perfect example of that too so videos patients sent case scenarios youwill see lots of patient case based scenarios in this program because it'sreally important to encompass you know if there is a patient scenario of a caseof of cardiac failure if that encompasses all the differentdisciplines within this program and so you you almost wear your doctor's hatand and make these diagnosis and and and put all the questions together to findthe answers and team work and group work is something that the university reallyfocuses on because in the big wide world when you leave the university structureand you go into the workforce it's very rare that you were working in a careeror a job on your own without having to interact with anybody else and somethingthat we instill in our students from day one in this program is to work in a teamand what amazing things can happen when you work together in a team and somestudents love it and hate it and some of it grows on them eventually but at theend of the day what you produce and bringing all of your personal attributesto that teamwork is is amazing and that teamwork really starts as I said fromthe first year growth in momentum and second year and by third year you're inyour research placements and really putting those skills to practice so thatstarts to become a team that's beyond the group of students and also the groupof students who are embedded with their research supervisors and them othermembers of that group who are doing something together that is valuable soone of the features of this program all these programs is the capacity for youto have an international experience so there are courses that are taught andthat are based overseas so public health for example have some study courses inNew Zealand and China in the Netherlands there are other opportunities where wedirectly recognize reciprocal courses from other institutions overseas andthen there is the capacity for you to say I'd like to take a semester and goand study abroad and look at find reciprocal courses that meet therequirements that will win your requisites for later years so we'vedesigned this program to let you do that because we think that those experiencesand that intercultural experience is something that's really valuable to youwhen you come out the other end it really adds some depth usually studentswill do this in the second semester of second year that fits best in terms ofkeeping your options open and letting you do the courses that you'reinterested in and specialization areas in third year but that's you don't haveto do it then and we will talk about the program advisors and the support theyoffer but we can help you map out an experience or a timing and and stillkeeping your options open as you go through the program okay so what's involved in the programso the degree offers is ruled strong general foundation studies in the broadrange of health areas there are seven majors to choose from that are broadlyclassified into two streams so we have the Medical Health stream clinicalCharles Mensa and neuro sciences and then the lifespan health stream withaddiction mental health nutritional health public health and reproachironwood health and the key thing to stress here is that we don't expect ourstudents from the first day they arrive to know what major it is that they wantto do I would probably say a quarter of our starting cohort will deny and hunclethem trends in minds and just want them change their mind but the program isdesigned to really cater for that flexibility so you really have up untilthe end of second year to go I really thought I was interested in neurosciencebut well no that's not my thing I want to do reproductive and childhood healthand as long as you choose your courses wisely and broadly and again with helpfrom our fabulous student and program support team you can actually createyour study plan to make sure that you tick off all of those options and giveyou time to choose your path and again if you get to second year and changeyour mind it's it's okay it's not going to add any extra time on to your on toyour time here within the grunts okay so I introduced later yep sowe're just gonna talk through each of the majors so the first one clinicaltrial so if you're interested in working with patients to advance human healthclinical research is the process by which new therapy such as medicationsbiological agents and devices are tested for approval and marketing so this majorreally acquires and will allows you to acquire the expertise to design developand conduct clinical trials within hospitals research organizationsInstitute's and pharmaceutical companies mid Medical Sciences is probably ourmost broadest and most popular major that from our students and this isreally where you work out how the human body works we know that they'reincredibly complex and so this major really encompasses Physiol so first ofall structure so anatomy of the human body pathology which is my area sodisease and disorders of the human body how can we treat them and thenphysiology so we have the you know the bones and the muscles but how do theyall work together to make the body move for example so path physiology anatomyin pharma a really part of that and neurosciences which is the area I did myPhD in in in traumatic brain injury is really focusing on the inner workings ofthe brain it's a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field and in this weagain we look at it we'll look well this major will equip you with understandinghow the nervous system will regulate body function and behavior with a viewto trying to find ways to prevent and cure many neurological diseases fromneurodegenerative diseases right through to brain injuries okay so within thelifespan health majors there are another four majors and although we're tellingyou about these specific majors I'd just like to keep reinforce I think you don'thave to know what you want to do at the beginning you can set up your first yearto keep all of your options open and still have lots of choices so addictionand mental health is really about understanding the link between those twothings and how for example drug drug addiction changes the brain and changesits function so this major looks at the scientificbasis for substance abuse and for mental health and really importantly looking atinterventions so not just pharmacological but also social andsocial health public health that are used in those areas to improve outcomesfor patients nutritional health as you might expect focuses on nutrition diethealthy eating so how the body uses food physiologically to function and to growand how a healthy diet affects the function of the body public health againis very broad so rather than looking at health from the perspective of a cell oran organism or a single person starting to take that bigger overview and lookingat health from the perspective of populations so how to measure the healthof populations understanding how factors within those populations like socialfactors cultural factors economics can impact health and what you can do aboutit in terms of interventions at a population level so can you shift thehealth of a whole population and reproductive and childhood health is thearea I work in so we're looking at the health of pregnancies the health ofmothers to be parents to be and health of children as they grow and develop sonot only about getting pregnant or not getting pregnant but also about havinghealthy pregnancy having a healthy child and we look at a really broad range ofissues that impact children's health as you go through and so aligned with yourmajor of choice I'm a third year you undertake a research placement and thisis something that terrified us initially when we were building the programsbecause we thought how are we going to place all of these fabulous students outthere in industry and will we have enough projects for them well weabsolutely have more than enough and we were inundated with support from ouraffiliates and our researchers wanting to host students out there in their labsor in their in their companies so and yet third-year a quarter of your programwill be this hands-on research placement and then another four courses of thetheory content related to your major as well and this is where you really getyour hands dirty you gain first-hand experience you get perhaps placements instate-of-the-art research facilities or you really just get an idea of yourcareer path and what you may encounter is that the people that you do yourresearch placement we've may actually become your supervisors or youremployers and so so far we've successfully placed over two that weonly started this last year the beginning of last year with the with theevolution into the new batch of Health and Medical Sciences programs where weplace over 200 students into over 90 projects or in industry and the feedbackhas just been overwhelmingly positive by our students and by the the peoplehosting them and every year these collaborations grow our networks growingmore more projects are coming up so that means that a more greater depth we canoffer you guys to come and actually gain new skills etc and so when we get to astudent panel do take the opportunity to talk to these guys about what they'vebeen doing with their research placements and how that has helped themin terms of thinking about what they want to do next and kind of linked withthat is you know we can offer these research placements because of ourenormous links that we have to industry we've only just listed a few up herebecause the slide isn't big enough to oh what you couldn't read it but youcouldn't read it and but things like si held CSIRO in in teaching hospital C MAXRed Cross Heart Foundation it's enormous and this is where our students go alsopotential employers of our of our students as well so really importantlythat engagement with the health industry with the potential employers for ourstudents starts from first-year so you've got this capstone experience thatthird year we embedded and immersed in them environment for a quarter of yourteaching load or a quarter of your face-to-face time but there's also thosepeople coming in and teaching into our courses and we're going to talk aboutthe core courses see see see but there is thatinteraction with our alumni from first year and and also as you go throughdelivering specialist content that's in those areas yeah and also somethingimportant to mention too is our Student Association we have a really activeStudent Association and one of the things that they've really started overthe last year or two is industry events and networking events and alumni eventsand they're really passionate about it because they're still undergraduatestudents they're not entirely sure where they want to go they want to know whereour graduates have gone and they also want to know who's going to employ themso inviting them into these networking engagements it's just fantastic and theyonly hosted one about a month ago and and it was and it was fabulous so youknow where we're going and getting more and more of these as we grow so a littlebit about the Bachelor of Health and Medical Sciences excuse me okay so thisis where you explore human biology and public health in depth gain hands-onresearch experience enjoy this VR virtual reality learning work in smallgroups and and this research placement or internship is really key and we'vealready touched on the fact that you can also study overseas which is reallyreally exciting for our students what is the program basically looking if youstart the program this is a lot more detailed we've just kept it to whatbasically what each of the year levels look like at first yeah every studentwill take a course called create communicate and connect in HealthSciences this is really unique to this University there is no other course likeit and and I'll touch on that in the next slide of you it that's the onlyreal core course that students have to take their courses which we advisestudents to take because then they're needed to progress intersectbut then you can see up here that there's still space for five electivesso students can choose up to five other courses from throughout the universityin their first year second year there is a course called RRRor reflect research resolve questions in health and this is very much group workand solving big health problems and you can still see that there is still roomfor four electives by a second year students are starting to work out whatcourses they really love and they're interested in and perhaps what coursesthey're not so interested in so most of the courses that second year areactually helped the Medical Sciences courses and some students may still takeelectives outside such as languages are quite popular and by third year is whereyou have your research placement which is a quarter of your loads you take fourtheory based courses aligned to your major and you still have room for twoother courses that are outside of your major so if you're doing a neurosciencemajor six of the courses will be involving your science but you may say Ireally want to do to clinical trials courses as well because I would love towork in a clinical trials laboratory testing drugs for Alzheimer's disease soI need to know neuroscience but I also need to understand how clinical trialsworks and capacity to combine electives with them so then your major reallymeans that pretty much every student in a degree will have done a differentcombination so personalizing your studies are the things you're interestedin and the career paths that you're interested in absolutely so CCC orcreate communicate and connect is really about transitioning to University weunderstand that you've come first of our students come from a school environmentwhere the teachers mind you about when assignments are due and you come toUniversity and all of a sudden you're in a lecture theatre with 500 otherstudents and it can be really really terrible and we've been there a longtime ago but I felt like that back then - this is really about getting you inmaking you comfortable here finding friends we know students day atuniversity if they have a good peer network if they if they meet peopleabout transition foundational skills have read a journalarticle what is a journal article how do I referenceMichael what's plagiarism all of those important things we teach you in thiscourse about life at uni and writing skills which is just crucial because bythe time you get to the third year you want to know what is it needed of you towrite a good literature review for example communication is cru whetherthat be visual communication or communication in in a group or amongstyour peers networking and I've kind of touched on this but this is really whereI know that Anna and Emma who are the course coordinators of course are sopassionate about about it and have really reached out to our alumni andthey have our line I already contacting them all the time to come and meet ourstudents they want to come and interact with our students they want to tell ourstudents their story about where they are now so reflect research resolve isthe second year cause within the program this really builds on those skills thatyou've gained in create communicate and connect it's about looking at healthchurches working in a group and those challenges are centered around thethemes in our majors so you may have a theme based in reproductive andchildhood health that may be centered around ectopic pregnancy orendometriosis or you may have a case in addiction and mental health focus onbinge drinking so the purpose of these a is to get you working in groups and tosolve problems but also to give students a taste of what the majors look likeBecht in areas you know such as neuroscience all the topics that they'regoing to choose in 30 okay so I'll talk about this bit then soThe Bachelor of Health and Medical Sciences advanced program we really seeas bringing for the next generation of leaders in health sciences and for thosestudents this degree gives you a chance a global health focus to stretch yourlearnings in areas such as the clinical aspects again the group work butthinking about global health challenges and health technologies and how they cansolve them identifying solutions evaluating those solutions and then withinnovation and entrepreneurship you actually go about getting thosesolutions out into use so you'll see that there's a little similaritiesbetween the advanced program and the Health Medical Sciences program the thekey differences in these programs are the core courses so again it first yearyou have a single course there are two courses that we recommend that you takebecause they keep all of your options open in terms of innovation so theadvanced program the students in the advanced program can do the samecombination of seven majors so choice choice from the several majors in secondyear our core course is called hacking health and again I want to talk aboutthis courses in a minute and you will do a combination of courses that you dobecause they're the prerequisites for your areas of specialization these twoand electives and in both the program's you can take electives from within ourdegree and is innovation and entrepreneurship in health courseso our first-year core courses clinical skills and simulation and that gives youa chance to work with the brilliant team in the clinical in the simulation Suiteswhich I hope you all gonna take the opportunity to have a look at their opentoday on level 2 so this course gives you the chance to troubleshoot proposedtreatments and procedures so get embedded in that clinical environment towork in interdisciplinary teams with clinicians because Health Sciencesnurses doctors don't work by themselves we're part of teams when we solveproblems and to get a really good understanding of the health system andwhere what kinds of places you could turn in that system in hacking healthhacking health really reflects that demand that's coming from governmentfrom industry to find innovative really big problems which you theinterdiscipline and going a bit left-field but then also how youevaluate those solutions how you decide which of those is a better option if youtry something how you can work out whether it's worked or not we didn'tname the course all right and I've been lucky enough to take over here and it'sbeen a lot of fun this is working actually across faculty collaborationsso we're working with the team in the innovation entrepreneurshipcrystallization Innovation Center and bringing together that health scienceand that entrepreneurial expertise thinking about how you evaluate how youfind new solutions how you work which ones how you actually get it out intopractice in the real world so Maddie is one of our graduates so she finished atthe end of last year in the first cohort of Bachelor of Health and MedicalSciences and she says breath within the program to look at different areas thatshe was interested in as she went through so from the minute you start actuallyeven from the that you receive an offer into the program the support is enormousso we offer pre-enrollment advice one-on-one sessions with our programadvisors they can build your study plan for you again if you change your mindthroughout the the your program progression they will sit with you andand invest consider about a considerable amount of time with you to build buildyour plan in your trajectory um here here is program coordinators usually todeal with more complex issues but we also see students that drop-in sessionswho just really want to know where can this degree gonna take them what arewhat are their options so they really help you navigate through the program wealso have credible peer academic support I think Nicole's going to talk aboutthat yes so I won't touch on that but our students are always putting up theirhands to help the younger students coming in so our peer mentoring schemesis just fabulous and have our great Adelaide Hills Sciences student societyand one thing I would say as the program coordinator and convener of our boardour society really sits as an intermediary between the student bodyand a staff body we want to hear from the students we want to make changes tothe program based on what the students want not just what we sitting at a tablewant to do and what we think is best for them so our student society gives usthat if something's not working now tell us everything they tell us if somethingis working they tell us and so we we respond and I think that's reallycrucial and so that's a society that we're really proud of and and I knowthat they were it's not all about pub crawls in but they also do a lot ofthese networking and and student engagement events this is my doing this one shot okay soour students as we said this is not a program where you do this degree andthere is a single career path at the end so if we look historically at where ourstudents go about a third of our students will do the bells and MedicalSciences or Bachelor Health and Medical Sciences our backspaper in the workforce now that might be something like working with the localcouncil as a health officer it might be working policy area it might be workingin some suitable sales but something to do with help and it can be graduateentry programs as well probably about a third of our students will take anhonest year because they know that they want to go into a research role and thatthey need that research experience to do that or to make themselves morecompetitive to go into into broader health health roles and the other thirdof our students broadly will use this as a pathway degree so a degree such ashealth and medical scientists gives you a really solid training in HealthSciences to go into post programs such as Dietetics physiotherapy speechpathology medicine you've got relevant skill sets so all of those things comeagain come back to the program advisors but if you know that like I want to dophysiotherapy we can give you some advice on okay there are since you needto make sure so we can help you customize the study plan that lets yougo in your area of direction and that's also fine if you don't know that's whatyou want to do yet I think Nicole is going to talk to you now about thestudents thank you very much okay so the programright because we will have the opportunity very short in to answerthose for you so it's Corinna and Kathy mentioned wehave a really detailed range of poor available to you with within the Facultyof Health and Medical Sciences and we really encourage you to access thatwhat school where the teachers will be hounding you all the timehere it's up to you with independent learners to actually come to us and sayhey I need some assistance it's there we just need you to come to us as well sowe have a student Support Center which is located on Frome Road and our programadvisors that were talked about earlier can actually help you in developing yourown study plan so what's individual to you and they will help you along the wayif you've got any issues along the way and I won't go into all of those becausethey probably won't make sense at this point in time but that's your go to hubif you have any questions or you're not sure of anything so earlier we have apeer mentoring program and what you end up studying and we hope it's with us Iwould really hope that you seek out this type of support coming from school it isquite different and this program is actually run by students for students sothey are current students within our programs who are in the senior years whohave been in your shoes they know what it's like to be a new student on campusthey know what it's like to be a little bit unsure about things and they willgive you the expert tips and tricks to help you succeed it's also aboutdiscovering friendships and building those networks as you go along and thesenior year students will be able to help you with that so you'll have onementor who will look after a group of about ten students you can actuallyselect just to meet with them online if you want to or you can actually makeface to face and throughout the year we also have engagement events whereeveryone can get together as well so I'd really encourage you to join thisprogram in some capacity and you there's no length of time that you are requiredto join it you might just want to do it for the first few weeks until you're onyour feet totally fine you might want to continue it on for the whole year somake sure when you're made an offering you come into the program that you seekthis out and we also have a unit called indigenous Health Unitwhere we have support for dishes and that ranges from all of the things wetalked about before but also some cultural supportwell so if we do have any indigenous students here we have one of ourindigenous student support officers and he'll be your go-to person as well so asyou can see lots of support within the faculty we do have a full range ofscholarships at the University and once you're made an offer into the programthat would be your opportunity to seek those out they come from a wide range ofindustries and areas and often they go unawarded so I'd really encourage you toapply apply for everything that you're eligible for and see how you go okayanother scholarship that we have is to encourage indigenous students to studyhealth and so we do have a scholarship that's available for five commencingaverage life Islander students studying in health and you can see the selectioncriteria there so if that relates to you then we'd encourage you to have a lookand apply for it once you've actually been made an offer okay so I thinkyou've heard enough from us now let's give you some real-life students to talkto this is Ben and Georgia to the panel and please pop your hand up and ask themwhat you've been burning tonight and if we do have any online questions as wellwe will be taking eyes from our online viewers as well so does anyone have aquestion that they would like to ask to any of the students I'll let themintroduce themselves first and hello everyone my name is Luisa and I'm aBachelor of Health and Medical Sciences student and I'm doing the advancedstreams hi I'm Ben I'm doing my final Bachelorof Health Sciences hi everyone I'm Georgia and I completed my undergraduatedegree last year in health and medical sciences and this year I'm completing myhonours yet let's ask some really tricky questions it's challenging it's not anyone nobody heaven okay so that question was about whatcareers these guys are planning and how their studies have led to that careerplan yeah it's Georgia we got my um well coming into this degree I had absolutelyno idea what I wanted to do and I had an interest in health and how the humanbody worked and so I thought this degree would be something for me first year Ilooked simple course that I was doing and I fell in love with neuroscience Ialso fell in love with pregnancy and reproduction and how that worked so thatkind of led me into my major into reproductive health and childhood healthat the end of last year I was like ah yeah I actually have to find a job andthat was kind of tricky as well because I wasn't sure whether I wanted to doresearch or whether I wanted something clinical or something public health andyet so I was tossing and turning between or do i do honours do I not do honoursand then it kind of came too late and I was like okay I didn't apply for honoursbut then through my Jeolla placement and my supervisor contacted me and was likehey I have a project available for next year would you be interested and I waslike ah alright but this town is really interesting and so far I'm absolutelyloving it I really really enjoy learning and um I've like been able to apply whatI've learned and being able to learn so much more and I know researchers it'schallenging but it's also really rewarding I feel so probably next year Iwould do a PhD and from there continue either with research or maybe applymyself in a public health position so whether I then go ahead andand working in the industry where you might be able to help form interventionsto improve health rather than just specific and pregnancy disorders and inmice models or things like that but actually putting in a populationperspective thanks to so I started off pretty steadfast on medicine candidlybut over the kind of course of the degree I've really started to enjoy thefact that you get to be on the cutting edge in health science which issomething I think medicine tends to lag behind with by up to decade in somecases so I'm not sure I'll end up doing I'm gonna do honours next year and we'llsay from there I think if you make plans they often don't turn out the way thatyou expect and you got options well throughout high school I was alwaysinterested in the sciences but in year 12 I thought I wanted to do law incommerce so I didn't do any science subjects in year 12 no biology so I'vegot into commerce you know acting with that degree with law and I just did notlike it at all I absolutely hated it so I decided that I would transfer into thehealth and medical sciences degree and I loved it it was next year I hope to gointo honors and the placement I'm doing at the moment in year 3 has beenfantastic and they've offered me a place with them next year so that's somethingto do eventually though I would like to get into postgraduate medicine what you see some of the best or uniqueelements about the programs that you're studying or what have you enjoyed most sure I think the opportunity the widerange of electives is really good because even if you end up in a labthinking in different ways and those transferable skills really helps you totackle different problems and as well as the electives I think the opportunity tostudy overseas I had a study tour to South Korea looking at biotechnology andall the kind of research going on over therewhich was really interesting and a really good opportunity to make a fewconnections professionally I think that my best experience was probably whenthinking about like lab work and all that I think everyone just thinks thatloves is just pipettes and things like that whereas in first year you get theexperience to go down into the rail are slabs and so looking at and the humancadavers and what's in a textbook to something that's directly in front ofyou is really fascinating and I also don't physiology in second year sothey'll have the kind of practical part of that those sessions where you mightbe a bike and measuring like your heart rate and how that changes or eating gelbeans and glucose changes over like an hour or something like that and thenobviously my third year that's when I was actually in a problem of usingpipettes and doing and those topics of the experience but obviously it's justso broad so you kind of get like a taster of everything below okay I reallylike that or I don't really like that so yeah that was my kind of best experienceyes and my best experience of this degree sofar has been the first year and clinical skills and simulation plus it wasabsolutely fantastic you get to use and the hospital suites upstairs you gettaking patient history and you get to work with and active patients you get tolearn advanced life support like taking or doing cpu blood pressure using a stepback tiss on each other then also um active patient so I thought that was areally fantastic aspect of this degree and loss I really enjoyed my placementand 30 and I'm over at summary with the stroke research program so that's quiteinteresting reading out the questions I'll just repeat question so thequestion was how business II have has she felt that advance program is withthe collaboration with the Entrepreneurship commercializationcenter in the advanced program specifically I found it to be so I don'tknow if all of you are aware of something called CRISPR well it's quitean amazing technology really them to do with genes and what not but innovationentrepreneurship courses that got to that end point so all the steps theytook so I guess you could say it's a bit businessí but you really learn how theycome up with this idea of this innovation and how they got the stepsthey took to get there so I guess you could say yes it's a bit business yeahwe're we're really trying to make that course it really is a collaboration andthe other core letters from a CIC and we have these massive discussions trying tomake sure that we we use the same words that mean different things because we'recoming from that very different culture and we have these massive conversationstrying to make sure that we both understand what each other is sayingit's and yeah and I'm learning each month as well so it is aboutunderstanding processes of getting something out there from a very healthscience perspective and it's also one of the things I see you like in Sergey soit's not hold agree so for example I can just think of you know and I'm from thebench or how do we do these experimental studies I'm in a laboratory and then howdo they then go out to patients and what are those enormous steps need to happento translate that bench-to-bedside it isn't just a year's worth of work and Ithink that's why this but that is the case study in a couple of ways exactlyyeah that's that into faculty car actually you know we we could teach thatbut why why I teach that when we have it we're having into at the university butthat focus is solely around come here so like commercialization entrepreneurshiplet's get them on board any other question okay my question to you guys iswhat your advice would be to new students thinking of coming in and doingthe programs up our program okay help them it's iRobot it depends on how muchyou enjoy it extend yourself as much as possible 

 there are lots of opportunities that 

so obviously you have the lab placements but there's also things likethe some ships that you can do so I've done totally the first was it's a marinelooking at how good cholesterol can help with forming new blood vessels andpatients with diabetes to reduce amputations and that was reallyfascinating and it's now going on to be a part of a clinical trialso you kind of seek out those opportunities and extend yourself it'squite rewarding and I think my advice would be as coming in as a first yearand as it's been said like the election that is a pretty big and everyone's itseems super scary but actually talking to the person next year and it'sactually scary people are generally really friendly and are actually willingI should feel like I don't quite understand this and things like that Ijust really would just sit next to anyone and just chat with them and maybetomorrow I'll go sit with someone else I really think that helps to build yourconfidence coming but and as you move through the degree they eventually mightbecome your friends in your majors my major hello every product in health wewere only a quite a small cohort so by the end of and third year we're like atwenty people 

so it would be like a really tight little group and all reallyfriends and helping each other so my advice would definitely be to him don'tbe scared to chat to the person next to youand adding to that don't be scared to chat to your lecturers ela they're alittle intimidating but overall it's it's it can help you map out what someof my advice would be so much of Ben's and that it's networking so talk to yourlecturers and talk to your tutors and ask questions go to networking eventsand yeah really try to increase your awareness of all the different aspectsof this healthcare fit that we're and my other bit of advice would be don't bescared to take and step into then you degree if like me something doesn't feelright just take that step okay if you are feeling too shy to askthe question of everyone at the moment they are staff and student Panem will beoutside after today's event so you're welcome to chat to them then Luisamentioned earlier about the simulation facilities and they are open today ifyou would like to go and have a look today this is your opportunity to have alook at their students working up there as well so I'd really encourage you tohave a look and check them out that as well okay look up to get up theescalator yet head up the escalators to level 2 and there'll be signs up thereto show you so ladies and gentlemen thank you for attending today and thankyou to our live audience online we hope that you are with us and we really hopeto see many of you here all of you here as students of the Faculty of health ormedical son if you're not I think the next session we ask that you pleasevacate the lecture theatre really promptly I mentioned the staffinstruments will be at the front if you wanted to check a little bit furtherthanks for coming to that everyone you