There’s a strong chance that you’ll love your time studying at Monash BDI so much you will never want to leave but then again, the day might come when you want to embark on an actual biomedical career.
No university course is worth its mortar board if it doesn’t prepare you for future employment and directly empower you to enter the workforce in your field.
Monash BDI offers a huge head start, in that respect. As a working research institute, partnering with industry and clinicians every day, we offer an environment where our students are involved in genuine biomedical projects, regularly mixing with senior corporate, scientific and non-academic personnel and building crucial networks of peers and potential future employers.
You won’t only emerge from your biomedical study with a degree, you’ll also boast genuine achievements for your curriculum vitae and an already powerful contact book.
Beyond the science
Our biomedical degrees are about so much more than ‘know your stem cells!’
Beginning on day one, you'll have many opportunities to hone your skill sets so that, after graduation, you're ready to contribute to the workforce. From internships to work integrated learning, from vacation employment to professional development programs, we've got you covered.
We help you develop key skills for a variety of roles across the diversity of the biomedical field. As well as learning great science, you’ll graduate with workplace strengths such as communication skills, the ability to work in a team, critical thinking, creativity and innovation, initiative, skills in planning and organisation, problem identification and solving, intercultural management; and have technical skills with tools and technology.
The detail
There are specific ways, beyond the actual world-leading teaching and research of our biomedical degrees, that we equip you for a career as a successful scientist. These include:
Our Professional Development Program
Students enrolled in our Bachelor of Biomedical Science are automatically included in our award-winning Professional Development Program (PDP), weaving skills to make you more employable into core biomedical science units. From your first year at Monash, you’ll be guided through PDP modules to identify, develop and describe skills that will assist you in the workplace after university. In units across all three years of your degree you’ll study networking, sourcing jobs and other vital skills.
Student Futures
An online tool that helps you track and reflect on experiences and employment skills you will develop during your study and through extracurricular activities. You can log into Student Futures throughout your degree to find opportunities to develop skills, track and reflect on your progress and prepare for job interviews and applications.
In fact, feel free to look around the Student Futures site.
Career Success Coaching
This program from Career Connect guides students through the process of finding a great job. It is designed to help you understand the employment market in your field of study, or related fields, equip you with the skills to not only survive but triumph in the competitive and complex world of recruitment and, importantly, walk you through the detail of what’s required to give you the best chance of landing the job of your dreams.
Career Success Coaching involves group workshops and career conversations, with all biomedical students welcome to join in. The sessions feature specialist employment coaches who know the industry, the gaps and the trends. Workshop topics include career development fundamentals, building valued skills, networking as a student, and preparing for your post-Monash working life.
There’s more information at Career Connect.
Internships and industry experience
We know how important gaining real-life experience is to your employment prospects. We have a range of volunteering, vacation employment, mentoring and leadership roles, and work integrated learning opportunities for our students.