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Biomedical Honors Program
Outstanding students with an interest in
biomedical science are invited to apply for the Biomedical Honors in Biological Sciences. Students
accepted into this program will receive orientation and group
advisement through the College of Arts and Sciences Pre-Health
Professions Advising Center and also the Premedical/Pre-professional
Advisement Committee by appointment. Additionally,
students will have the opportunity to perform biomedical-related
research under the guidance of a faculty mentor, write an Honors
Thesis under the guidance of a thesis committee based upon this
research, and present findings in a departmental seminar. Students
that successfully complete the program will be eligible to compete
for the Robert J. Smiddy
Undergraduate Honors Research Award.
The courses chosen to fulfill the
requirements for the Biomedical Honors will be
the same as for the regular B.S. program except that (a) the
mathematics requirement does not include Statistics as an option
(although it is highly recommended), and (b) required courses taken
outside the major must include at least one of the following: ANT
3462 Medical Anthropology, PHI 4633 Biomedical Ethics, REL 3180
Medical and Bioethics or SYO 3400 Medical Sociology.
Students apply for
admission to the Biomedical Honors Program at the end
of their sophomore year, although students may receive provisional
acceptance as early as their freshman year. As in the Honors
Program in Biological Sciences, accepted students will require
placement in a research lab and register for BSC 4915L Honors
Research Laboratory prior to the spring term of their 3rd
year. As stated above, the
production of an honors thesis and registration for BSC 4970 is also
required. A list of faculty and their research interests is
available from http://www.fiu.edu/~biology/html/people/faculty.htm
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