Suggestions on a degree for ds - combination of biology/ medicine, physics/engineering

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DS is struggling to find ideas as to exactly what he wants to study - he is doing biology, physics, maths and product design A level (plus gold level EESE), and should get A, A, A, A with the A in biology. He knows he doesn't want to do straight physics, biology or engineering, and is thinking along the lines of medical physics (gets it from his mum), but is also interested in bio material engineering as he really doesn't want to move away from more practical design aspects that still play to his biology strength.
Any suggestions for things he might not have thought about?

Has he though about prosthetics?

would play to engineering, biology and bio mechanical strengths.

Natural sciences -eg York

Bio engineering of some kind? Mechatronic engineering?

There’s also medical engineering.

Bio medical and clinical engineering is on the list. He'd just like more biology. Prosthetics are really interesting to him, he's particularly keen on the osseo integrated and nerve control aspects

Optometry? No engineering but good mix of biology & physics.

Medical imaging. I'm doing radiography and there's lots of physics as well as anatomy and physiology. Also a generous bursary to train.

Just to say that plenty of graduates do not go into clinical practice but onto sales and development of technology.

Pharmacology not the same as pharmacy! Ds doing it and loving it.

www.york.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/meng-medical-engineering/ what about medical engineering?

Systems biology?

thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/spotlight-on-systems-biology

Pharmacology doesn’t have any engineering aspect. It’s more biology with a little bit of maths. Probably less maths than pharmacy.

With the caveat that I wouldn't recommend studying medicine unless he is passionate about medicine...

Imperial offer a 1 year intercalated BSc in Biomedical Engineering to their medical students. It's also open to medical students from other med schools, if their medical school will allow them to take an external intercalated degree. Other med schools may offer similar but I only know of the Imperial one. If you search the medic threads, one of the posters' DD did it about 2 years ago although it was during lockdown so not the usual experience.

www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/study/undergraduate/intercalated-bsc-programme/biomedical-engineering/

A friend's DC is doing Industrial Design with a view to going on to study Ergonomics. Would something like that be of interest?

Medical physics. Offered by quite a few Unis.

Sorry, seems he already knows about that one 😊.

I've known a couple of people with a sports background study this course:

www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/biomedicalengineering/

How about biomedical materials science? Focuses on both biological and materials science. Of use for implants , heart valves etc , May tick the boxes

That sounds like @needsmoresleep

Forgot to link to course www.birmingham.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/med/biomedical-materials-sci.aspx

What about neuroscience? That covers lots of biophysics & computational modelling of how neurons work and can lead to both research and clinical jobs.

There are lots of varieties of neuroscience degree- take a look around.

Also, go to a big bookshop and have a look in the science section for some books to inspire. You can also look up which science books were nominated for the Royal Society science writing prize in recent years and pick likely topics. A good pop sci book can really inspire at that age.

@Lollygaggle yes, he is really interested in that. My dentist did it before entering dentistry and it sounds fascinating. Only problem is Brum is a bit close!
@chesirecat99 he doesn't want to do medicine. We talked about the Bristol anatomy course as he really enjoys dissection, but it isn't what he wants

Def not optometry/ radiography/ pharmacology from what he says.

@parietal I asked him about neuroscience, and after some reading he says no. But a great suggestion. We have a million pop sci books (and I listen to a lot in the car so he gets those forced on him too and engages in spirited discussion) and a New Scientist subscription and he is literally interested in everything.

He sounds ideal for this: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/bioengineering/study/undergraduate/

their integrated masters also look interesting.