Health Sciences

The Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) Program (BHSc) uses a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of health, wellness and illness. It offers students an understanding of health from biological, behavioural and population-based perspectives, through the integration of foundational and health sciences.

The BHSc (Honours) Program is the only program in Ontario that draws on a full range of departments within health sciences, including clinical departments of Medicine, Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences and Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics. Exposure to health care practitioners and applied researchers will lend relevance and scope to the foundation sciences, which will form the basis of the students experiences.

• Unique program that uses core Inquiry courses. This approach has been adopted by other programs at McMaster and universities around the world based on the work and accomplishments of the B.H.Sc Program.
• McMaster is recognized internationally for expertise in the use of problem-based, self- directed learning and inquiry.
• Prescribed set of exciting courses over a four-year program.
• Core classes focus on issues in health care providing an integrative approach to the study of health related issues.
• Courses use a variety of learning methods including Inquiry classes designed to develop skills basic to the systemic investigation of health issues. This ensures that beyond the program, the students will be smart consumers of scientific knowledge.
• Facilitates interdependent and independent small group learning. Students collect and analyze data for discussion, critical evaluation and reconstruction in a small group.
• Dynamic, dedicated and collaborative peer group.
• Small class size allowing for greater contact with professors and increased opportunity for class participation – Learning is a contact sport.
• Students may select electives from many areas of study and possibly graduate with a minor in another subject.
• Students emerge from the program with skills that will facilitate learning and effective function in their university experience and future careers.
• Equitable Admissions
  • Equitable Admissions for Black Applicants
  • Facilitated Indigenous Admissions Program

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