Bachelor of Medical Sciences (BMSc)

BMSc students

Undergraduate Course Registration

Please see the course constraints for registration in all Pathology undergraduate courses listed on the BMSc web site.

Special Permissions / Pre-Requisites: All requests for special permission (for example, course addition, time conflicts, waiving of pre-requisites, etc.) for any of the Pathology and Medical Bioinformatics courses should be sent to palm.undergrad.bmsc@uwo.ca. In your request, please include your student ID number, an official copy of your transcript, your module, and a detailed account of your request.

Undergraduate BMSc Program

An Honours Specialization in Pathology, offered by the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, leads to a BMSc degree. Students can take a number of Pathology courses including Pathology 3500 (Introduction to Human Pathology), Pathology 3700F/G (Biomedical/Pathology Research), Pathology 4200A (Current Concepts in the Pathogenesis of Human Diseases) and Pathology 4400B (Environmental Pathology). Students in the Honours Specialization also undertake a thesis-based research project in their 4th year under the supervision of a faculty member. This project is completed through two co-requisite courses, Pathology 4985E (Applied Pathology Research) and Pathology 4986Y (Theory, Inquiry, and Discourse in Pathology Research). Course materials, class exercises, and related resources for all courses can be accessed and viewed through OWL Brightspace.

The Department also offers an Honours Specialization in Medical Bioinformatics, which leads to a BMSc degree. Medical Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that applies computational methods to problems in the biomedical sciences, integrating medical sciences, computing, and statistics to analyze the large and complex datasets generated by modern laboratory technologies such as next-generation sequencing. Students in the module combine foundational courses in the medical sciences, computer sciences, and mathematical statistics with a core curriculum in bioinformatics. This includes Medical Bioinformatics 3100A (Introduction to Medical Bioinformatics), followed by advanced courses such as Medical Bioinformatics 4650F (Computational Methods for Epigenome Analysis), Medical Bioinformatics 4750G (Bioinformatics of Infectious Disease), and Medical Bioinformatics 4850G (Genomic Data Analysis). Students in the Honours Specialization also undertake a thesis-based research project in their 4th year under the supervision of a faculty member. As in Pathology, this project is completed through two co-requisite courses, Medical Bioinformatics 4985E (Applied Research in Medical Bioinformatics) and Medical Bioinformatics 4986Y (Research Skills in Medical Bioinformatics).

A Major in Pathology and a Major in Medical Bioinformatics is also offered.