McMaster University Speciality : Biomedical Sciences
programme: Biomedical Engineering

After completing my first year of ibiomed I have mixed feelings about the program. I loved the professors and ive met some really great friends. I do not like the management of the program. We get one academic advisor and it feels like he is on vacation for like 6 months in the year. It is very difficult to book an appointment with him you have to book like 1 month in advance. we are not allowed to get help from the other academic advisors. I also thought some of the courses could use some better organization. such as 1p10, I loved Dr. Macdonald but the course overall felt disorganized and many of the TAs didn’t know what they were doing (especially for the 1p10 labs). Ibiomed is certainly a unique program but it requires you to select a second eng stream second year, you can’t JUST do biomedical engineering, which I wasn’t fully aware of when accepting this as my program. the HESE side of this program has some very unique courses that give hands on experience but you also have to take some hard eng math courses which could negatively affect your GPA if medcshool is the goal

I have finished ibiomed (integrated biomedical engineering and health sci) program in first year and I have mixed feelings about the program. I thought that some of the courses were disorganized (1p10) but it is easy to do well if you participate and show up to every lab/tutorial. I also think that if you are interested in going into medschool the hese stream could be beneficial if you are capable of keeping on track and managing high work loads. You will have to take hard math/eng courses, so if these arent your strong points, this may negatively affect your GPA, but they do have some cool courses like innovators in scrubs where you get some unique hands on experience. As for the engineering side. Its kinds weird the way they organized it. After first year you specialize into biomedical