Physiology  (POC2)

Students’ performance will be reviewed at the end of the academic year. Students who fail 50% or more of their registered modules, and who fail to progress to the next stage of their programme, will be identified under the UCD Continuation – Academic progress policy. Students’ performance will continue to be reviewed in subsequent trimesters and students will be invited to meetings with the College of Science office for support and guidance.

Where the rate of progression and performance over two academic years is deemed unacceptable, a case will be submitted to the Governing Board for review. A recommendation for discontinuation may be the outcome of this review.

As Stages 3 and 4 have the most dynamic components of the programme, and the material studied previously may no longer be relevant, a student who has been away from the programme for a significant period should be required to register again to Stage 3. The upper limit for completion of Stages 3 and 4 should be six years if they choose to do 120 credits with 20 in each year.

Physiology students have spent time studying at the following universities:

San Jose State University, USA

University of Queensland, Australia

Physiology graduates go on to establish careers in areas such as biomedical research in the university system or other governmentrun operations, pharmaceutical industrybased research and development, clinical trials, and pharmaceutical industry sales. Physiology graduates regularly gain places on graduate-entry Medicine and other allied healthcare degree courses.

UCD provides opportunities for graduate physiological research at the Masters or PhD level. Research into basic physiological mechanisms takes place but the research focus is on translational research, i.e. the research that enhances our understanding of human disease that leads to advances in the improvement of human health.

• Level 5/6 QQI-FET
• Open Learning Entry Route
• Mature Entry Route
• DARE Entry Route
• HEAR Entry Route
• University Access

Associate Professor John Baugh
UCD School of Medicine
askscience@ucd.ie

Stage 2

Students take 5 core modules. Students must register to 50 programme credits in total (cores/option modules). Additional modules may be selected from the BSc programme to complete Stage 2 (60 credits) or alternatively, students can select 10 credits of elective modules.