Biomedical Pathways in Stockholm – DISCOVER STUDY ABROAD

I’m sadly coming into my final week in Stockholm. My time overseas has been an superior and memorable expertise! Via conversations with my instructors and studying about scientific instruments on this class, I’ve seen a brand new perspective on medication. My experiences within the Biomedical Lab have helped me affirm my need to go to medical college following undergrad at my dwelling college.

This course is taught in 3 separate buildings that every cowl one unit.

1. DIS Stockholm: Right here, we labored on the biometrics unit. We discovered about and practiced totally different diagnostic measures comparable to coronary heart charge, eye monitoring, EKG, and extra. We additionally practiced easy methods to use these measures in a analysis research.
2. Karolinska Institutet Solna: Right here, we labored on the immunology unit via moist labs. We practiced a number of lab methods comparable to agarose gel electrophoresis, bacterial transformation, transfection, and many others. to find out which pattern contained DNA with a tumorous mutation.
3. Karolinska Institutet Flemingsberg: Right here, we accomplished the molecular biology unit. We had extra moist labs and some lectures. We analyzed the expression of an estrogen receptor in a human breast carcinoma cell line when handled with a sure hormone. We studied the expression utilizing PCR, qPCR, and western blot evaluation amongst different methods.

Our lecturers have been excellent and extraordinary to speak with about lecturers and life right here. Generally, we’d have lengthy moist lab days and have to attend hours for a gel to complete or for one thing to incubate. Usually, ready round and having free time might have been boring, however our instructors had been tremendous pleasant and open to speaking with us! They gave us recommendation about eating places and points of interest to take a look at, instructed us about their careers, and enthusiastically answered all of our questions. Our instructors come from a number of backgrounds, together with medical medical doctors and PhDs who lead their very own analysis teams, in order that they had been capable of give us a wide range of profession recommendation. Their friendliness made this class very enjoyable every day.

I’ve liked having the chance to study sensible scientific expertise that can assist me as I plan to discover a job in a hospital/clinic subsequent semester. To this point I’ve discovered easy methods to discover coronary heart charge and blood strain, carry out finger prick checks to get blood samples, carry out IV insertions and EKGs, and in addition use eye monitoring and galvanic pores and skin response software program! Its additionally been cool to find out about diagnostic measures that may uncover illnesses on the molecular stage like taking a look at blood cells underneath a microscope.