Biomedical Engineering Technology

The healthcare industry both in Canada and around the world, demands new and innovative medical technologies to improve diagnosis, monitoring and treatment. Healthcare providers are dependent on qualified biomedical engineer technologists to ensure the technology functions properly and is available and managed in a cost-effective and efficient manner. Graduates of this program will be invaluable members of any health care team.

Through this program, students will gain skills to assess current and innovative medical technology, as well as purchase, install, calibrate, maintain and manage the life cycle of critical medical equipment. Students will learn to liaise with and support the technology needs of all levels of allied healthcare teams.

What You’ll Learn

• Communicate with professionalism and integrity information required by clinical and technical stakeholders to maintain excellent customer service.)
• Apply and use applied mathematics and science to solve technical problems for analog and digital electronics, computer technology and embedded microcontrollers in devices used in medical technology.
• Support life cycle management (inventory, inspection, commissioning, QA and maintenance) of medical technology by following policies, procedures, standards and manufacturers’ recommendations to promote maintaining current technology and quality of patient care.
• Install, configure, adapt and use computer programs, network and cyber security, and network architecture both on site and remotely to support medical technology and patient records.
• Comply with relevant law, policies, procedures, regulations, biomedical standards and ethical principles, decisions to mitigate risk and ensure patient safety when working in biomedical work environments.
• Comply with Universal Precautions by using personal protective equipment (PPE) and decontaminating medical devices to ensure personal safety and infection prevention for self and others.
• Support the life cycle management of dialysis and water treatment devices and processes to adhere to dialysis specific standards and regulations.
• Work collaboratively with an allied healthcare team to support patient treatment plans to enable coordinated patient care.