NDLI: Critical assessment and outlook for the 50 biomedical engineering undergraduate programs in mexico

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Author	Azpiroz-Leehan, J. Martinez Licona, F. Urbina Medal, E.G. Cadena Mendez, M. Sacristan Rock, E.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico (Azpiroz-Leehan, J.; Martinez Licona, F.; Urbina Medal, E.G.; Cadena Mendez, M.; Sacristan Rock, E.)
Abstract	Biomedical Engineering (BME) has been taught in Mexico at the undergraduate level for over forty years. The rationale for the introduction of this profession was to help manage and maintain the growing technological infrastructure in the health care system during the seventies. Owing to this, it is not surprising that early versions of the BME curricula were oriented towards clinical engineering and medical instrumentation. In the last decade the number of programs has grown from three in the seventies and eighties to fifty at present. This work is the result of the analysis of the BME programs in all the institutions that offer this degree in Mexico. Three main issues were studied: the curricula, the sub-disciplines that were emphasized in the programs and the job market. Results have shown a striking resemblance in most of the programs, which are mostly dedicated to teaching aspects of medical instrumentation and clinical engineering. These results reflect an agreement with the requirements of the job market, but since most job offerings are for low-paying positions in sales, service and hospital maintenance, we question the wisdom of stressing these sub-specialties at research universities, where faculties and research labs offer a wide variety of options. An analysis of work at these centers shows that most of the results are publications, so the need to emphasize translational research and partnerships with industry are suggested.
Starting Page	3973
Ending Page	3976
File Size	897994
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1557170X
e-ISBN	9781424492718
DOI	10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319264
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-08-25
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Clinical diagnosis Instruments Biomedical engineering Education Biomedical imaging Laboratories
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Biomedical Engineering Health Informatics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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