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Find out where a degree in Health Sciences will take you
Push for fairer, more equitable health and social care for all. Help meet the world’s current and future needs in innovative and meaningful ways.
Health sciences make up the very fabric of society – and our Taster Day can help start your exciting career in the field.
Discover how to treat, control and prevent disease, illness, and injury. Learn how to support the care and aftercare of vulnerable people. Use your values and your compassion to impact lives for the better.
If you're interested in studying for a degree in Healthcare, Pharmacy, and Biomedical Sciences, then we've got the courses for you.
Book your place
At our Health Sciences Taster Day, you'll:
- Find out what it's like to study Healthcare or Pharmacy and Biomedical Science at degree level – and pick what area you'd like to focus on during the Taster
- Check out our links to the industry and how to kick-start your career in this rewarding field
- Use the best equipment and facilities in the sector, such as our Pharmaceutics laboratories
- Hear from current students about the hands-on learning you’ll do at Portsmouth
- Take part in interactive simulations on how to save a life, personalised medicines and airway management
- Gain useful experience to talk about in your UCAS personal statement when applying for a Health Science course
Taster Day location and meeting point
Check-in opens at 9.30am in St Michael's Building, Portsmouth PO1 2DT. Look out for our students in purple T-shirts who'll help direct you.
For schools and colleges arriving by coach or minibus, we recommend parking on Museum Road, Portsmouth. For more information on checking in and how to get here, take a look at our guide to taster days page.
Taster Day programme
See what's coming up below. When you save your place at the Health Sciences Taster Day, you can also choose from 2 options of Health Science to get involved in.
Your options at the Taster Day
Pick 1 of these 2 areas of focus when you book your place:
Healthcare
Explore Paramedic Science, Operating Department Practice and Nursing, and learn the fundamentals of how to save someone's life.
Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
See how Pharmacology, Pharmacy, and Biomedical Science are drastically helping to improve the lives of patients.
Health Sciences Taster Day
We're excited to meet you. Check in, grab a refreshment and get ready to learn about studying a degree in Health Sciences at uni.
Here's our guide to subject taster days, should you want to learn a little more about our taster days before booking.
Check-in from 9.30am at St Michael's Building, Portsmouth PO1 2DT.
*When you save your place at the Health Sciences Taster Day, you'll choose from the following options of Health Science to get involved in:
Healthcare
Resuscitate. Make cardiac assessments. Save a life. Our Healthcare sessions focus on Paramedic Science, Operating Department Practice and Nursing, so you can learn the fundamentals of how to save someone's life.
Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
The human body is an exciting and complex thing. Ever considered how they work when we're feeling good? And what goes wrong when we're feeling poorly? See how Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Biomedical Science is helping to improve the lives' of patients.
Depending on the option you choose to explore, you'll get an introduction to studying courses and where you could go with a degree in Healthcare, Pharmacy, and Biomedical Sciences.
Paramedic Science – How to restart a heart (Healthcare)
You can learn to be a lifesaver. Get a taste of Paramedic Science by learning what to do if you're with someone who has a cardiac arrest.
Pharmacology – Let's make it personal (Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences)
Understand how medicines work and how they affect the human body as you delve into the new and exciting area of personalised medicine. You'll explore medications, their sources, chemical properties, biological effects, and therapeutic uses.
*You'll attend one of these sessions based on the Health Science subject area you select when you book your place.
Quick breather. Take stock of the morning then get ready for the next session.
Operating Department Practice (ODP) – Introduction to airway management (Healthcare)
Discover how ODPs use specialist equipment to keep people breathing when they can’t do it for themselves.
Pharmacy – It ain't easy being wheezy (Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences)
Understand the treatments available for patients with asthma, learn about the different inhalers used by asthma patients, and explore the advice Pharmacists give about the appropriate use of medicines.
*You'll attend one of these sessions based on the Health Science subject area you select when you book your place.
Fuel-up. Feel free to bring your own lunch for the day or grab something from a university cafeteria or local outlet.
Nursing – Respiratory and circulatory assessment (Healthcare)
Pulse assessment is a key element of healthcare and is used to indicate a patient's health status. Learn how nurses keep track of how your heart is doing in this session.
Biomedical Science – Patient case study: Bashir (Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences)
Work with our Biomedical Scientists to diagnose a patient (Bashir) with a medical problem. You'll consider the samples (for example, blood) that will be collected from Bashir and the laboratory investigation that is performed.
*You'll attend one of these sessions based on the Health Science subject area you select when you book your place.
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