The Bachelor of Health Sciences (BHSc) is a direct-entry program that allows you to dive into courses related to human health from the perspectives of biomedical and social sciences in your first year. By travelling to the BISC for year one of the Health Sciences program, you will still experience the same innovative BHSc curriculum that is built with a competency-framework common to health professional programs, including medicine. In addition, the BHSc core courses at the BISC are delivered with the same novel, blended-learning style that the Queen’s BHSc program at the Kingston campus. This learning style emphasizes that you learn to connect and extend course content, within a dynamic group learning environment. At the BISC this occurs in an even smaller class size that facilitates collaboration with your entire peer group, not to mention your instructors. Studying at the BISC also provides you with unique experiential learning opportunities, such as visiting a historic operating theatre in London and the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Key Bachelor of Health Sciences program information:
- Direct-entry program, students start taking human health courses in first year
- Curriculum developed with a similar competency-based framework that is being increasingly used in professional health programs
- BHSc competencies: collaborator, communicator, advocate, leader, scholar, professional, content expert
- Students will be using the blended learning approach that they would get at the Kingston campus but on a smaller-scale, allowing for even more opportunity for discussion with classmates and instructors)
- Core first-year courses: IDIS 173/3.0 History and Philosophy of Health & Healthcare, PHAR 100/3.0 Introductory Pharmacology, ANAT 100/3.0 Anatomy of the Human Body, PHGY 170/3.0 Human Cell Physiology, HLTH 101/3.0 / GLPH 171/3.0 The Social Determinants of Health / Social and Physical Determinants of Health and Disease and STAM 200/3.0 Introduction to Statistics
Experiential learning opportunities:
- Historic operating theatre in London
- Pasteur institute in Paris
- Anatomy Facility at the University of Sussex/Brighton Medical School
Other information to note:
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- BISC has well-established program in Global Health & Disability, with expert faculty already on location – links with BHSc first-year Global Health course “Social and Physical Determinants of Health & Disease”
