Vitamins will haunt you. May be a challenging HD, and this semester will be content heavy for you since this is done alongside IMED1003. Note that it seems the unit coordinator changed in 2018 from Helena (who I don't know of) to Amber. Amber is very, very enthusiastic, and is a lovely person, but makes the lectures very content heavy occasionally, and doesn't always make it clear what the key takeaways from the lectures are. With one of the lectures, Amber started the lecture with a 15-20 minute rant about how people email her trivial questions. While I think this is justified, it is a little inconvenient and made the lecture run overtime for a total of 90 minutes. That all being said, in IMED2003 she seemed to have improved a little in terms of pointing out what the important things to know are, so this unit may be more tolerable. The other lecturers are fine, but the immunology lecturer also doesn't make it too clear what content should be focused on for revision. Liz made the unit a bit more enjoyable, especially with her quail wheels or whatever it was called. Unit has 33 lectures in total, although one is a unit introduction, and one is a guest lecture (which is still assessed). The vitamin lectures (Micronutrients I & II) were very content heavy, but fortunately assessment was superficial, as with this whole unit in general. These two vitamin lectures are probably the only ones which are integrated with the concurrent IMED1003 unit. There were 3 lectures near the end which felt a bit out of place with this unit, going over cell cycle control - these would be more applicable to go in IMED1002. Coincidentally, two of these cell cycle control lectures showed up almost word-for-word in PATH2211, albeit with some bits of information removed and a chunk more added. Aside from these 3 lectures at the end, the unit in general just felt like the combination of things not yet taught in first year IMED, with a general theme on "environmental impact on health;" the first few lectures talk about immunity, with a small focus on environmental impact on development of immunity. The immunity content will help a little for IMED2001 next year, but personally I'd have done fine if I forgot about it all except for what part of the innate immune system triggers the adaptive immune system. Not many other units have much similarity to this one. The practice test for the mid-sem was considerably easier than the real thing. Exam was not too difficult, a bit easier than the mid-sem. The video assignment is not fun, and expectedly lowered almost everyone's average. Try to make friends beforehand, so you can choose your own friend group. The 2 star review makes a good point that the workshops introduce you to the med library (JRW). If you're doing the IMSCP (IMED) major, this sem I'd recommend also taking ANHB1102 and SCIE1106.

not really sure what the person under me was talking about... with a bit of effort this unit is a pretty easy HD, heaps of topics covered but in low detail and is actually pretty interesting and definitely the easier of all level 1 imed units, maybe just below amanda's anatomy one in difficulty, with some prep and cramming a HD is achievable

Ok, so everyone is giving this unit really high ratings (but they do acknowledge that it is hard) which is weird. The unit WAS hard, there is a lot of very diverse topics that you will cover and it will build up if you do not keep up. You have to put in A LOT of effort to get a HD, especially with the video assignment where you literally spend all your time and effort doing it and taking out time form other units. It becomes overwhelming and it feels like all you are doing is IMED1004 stuff. I have to say Liz and Rob came to the rescue with their amazing lectures (but very few unfortunately). This is a difficult unit, don't get in thinking it'll be a walk in the park because this will be marathon with a multitude of different topics that you will cover. Some of the lectures were really really long and tedious to go through. The workshops were fun and productive and also introduces you to the medical library. Don't get fooled though, work hard in order to enjoy the summer break.

This unit is very reasonable and comprehensive. The well known superstars of the Unit, Liz and Amber, are wonderful. The assessments are quite fair; they involved MCQ quizzes, a short answer response and a group video. The workshops are rather interactive and enjoyable. The content is straightforward and very digestible, which made the exam a breeze. Highly recommended and easy HD, with a little effort.

Cannot speak more highly of Liz and Amber! Such a great and challenging unit

I thought this was an excellent unit and I honestly had a fun time doing it (in fact also my highest scoring unit). It was well organised by Helena who gave us more than enough resources that were relevant for not just lectures but the content that were tested in the exam. Lots of information in this unit was relevant that was integrated into later IMED units, in terms of epidemiology. Great unit, probably one of the best in first year medical sciences!

This unit got reworked, and is now called Health and Society. The first few weeks were very easy, and all of Demelza's lectures were brilliant. The nutrition lectures, especially the vitamins lecture, is the most difficult lectures, and is heavily integrated with IMED1003. Some of the lectures were really boring and dry. The workshop quizzes are easy marks, though the video assignment requires lots of time to do well. The exam was good, but you need to study this to get an HD.

I think this unit has been improved a lot this year and was overall pretty easy although the final exam was a little bit challenging but definitely doable. The public health lectures were not particularly interesting and it wasn't very clear what we needed to know but overall the content was pretty easy. There are a lot of easy marks you can get by simply doing the online quizzes, and there were some workshop participation marks and the health promotion video was marked very fairly so if you put in a bit of effort it's a fairly easy HD.

Liz Quail tries gallantly to hold this unit together in the face of incompetence from other faculty. This unit was apparently a disaster last year so it has been taken over by biomedical science lecturers and totally revamped. There will be some more tweaks next year as well. The public health content has been compressed into seven lectures and a few workshops, but was still appalling: the lecturer waffled on about seemingly whatever she wanted to talk about without any real sense of direction. The Aboriginal health lectures also needed a bit more purpose, and there was an exam short answer question on the film they showed which was ridiculous. A new lecturer, Amber Boyatzis, then took us for nutrition, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Diabetes and cardiovascular disease were well delivered, but nutrition was very tedious. Rote-learning random lists of functions for ALL the vitamins was awful and totally unnecessary. Lectures by Demelza Ireland (immunology), Liz Quail, Rob White were better. Exam was doable but not overly easy.

Did not really enjoy this unit as there was so much irrelevant info that was being taught in lectures that could have been done without. Liz is a lifesaver as she tried to salvage the unit by given us important tips for the exam.