The Bachelor of Medical Science with Honours (BMedSc(Hons)) degree is available for medical students who may apply to take this research degree after satisfactorily completing three or more years of the medical degree (MBChB). Most students elect to take the BMedSc(Hons) year after the third year of the medical degree but a few do so after the fifth year, prior to the trainee intern year.

A BMedSc(Hons) involves a full-time year of research and a thesis is submitted. 

Many of our academic staff are available to supervise BMedSc(Hons) students.  Details of specific projects available in any year are distributed to the medical class in the previous year and students are welcome to approach our staff re specific projects.  Students are also welcome to approach any member of staff who is researching in a field that interests them, even if a specific project has not been offered.  You can read about the research interests of our staff in their staff profiles.

• The effect of reproductive experience on the sensitivity of the hypothalamus to prolactin in female rats.
  
• Laser photobiomodulation in a mouse model of impaired and delayed wound healing.
• Neonatal rat hypoxia-ischemia: Short term effect on striatal medium-spiny neurons by combined antioxidant-hypothermia post-treatment.