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As a Biomedical Scientist, you’ll carry out tests and investigations to help clinicians make diagnoses. Just like a civilian biomedical scientist, you could analyse blood, examine body fluids under a microscope or study the behaviour and biology of micro-organisms. Biomedical Scientists work in well-equipped pathology labs in a number of tri-Service Defence Secondary Care Agency hospital units in the UK and Cyprus, as well as in medical centres on some of the larger RAF stations. As a Biomedical Scientist you are trained in all aspects of pathology before specialising in one of four disciplines: clinical chemistry, haematology, histology or microbiology.

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If you are an Associate of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences or a Member of the Institute of Biology (Biochemistry or Microbiology), or if you have a science degree relevant to medical lab sciences when you join, you’ll start your professional work significantly higher in the RAF’s rank and pay structure.

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