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Detailed Text Structure Medical Engineering
- Physiological Measurement and
Clinical Management
Principles and instrumentation
associated with the assessment and regulation of various body function parameters.
Clinical Topics include cardiac and respiratory function, neurophysiology, audiology,
nephrology, gastroenterology.
- Medical Equipment
Principles and instrumentation
associated with non-diagnostic medical equipment. Topics include defibrillators, infusion
pumps, diathermy, lasers, linacs, ventilators, virtual environments for arthroscopy and
minimal invasive surgery.
- Clinical Laboratory Science
Principles and instrumentation
associated with clinical laboratory diagnostic tests. Topics include: saline & urine
markers, genetic fingerprinting, antigen assays.
- Bio-Engineering & Bio-Materials
Principles and recent developments
in prosthetics and tissue engineering. Topics include design and materials in skeletal
joint and cardiovascular prosthetics, tissue engineering of cartilage, bone and skin.
- Rehabilitation Technology
The need for technology to help
people overcome their disabilities. Topics include mobility, external prosthetics &
orthotics, control of the environment, communication, the market and the role of
'one-offs'.
Project Management
- Finance & Accounting
The role of accounting both in the
production of company financial reports and for managerial control and decision-making.
Topics include: capital budgeting techniques, investment decisions, company dividends,
sources of finance, assets and depreciation, the balance sheet.
- Project Organisation & Management
The planning, organisation,
implementation and control of major industrial projects. Topics include: organisational
structures in a project based company, techniques for project planning, risk
assessment and control; along with the need for presentational skills and report
writing.
- Marketing & Commercialisation
The principles and practice
associated with marketing, distribution, sales and technical support of medical technology
devices. Topics include: market research of global markets, models and opportunities for
distribution and sales, local and distant technical support for the distributor and
customer.
- Clinical Trials & Regulatory
Affairs
The procedures associated with
validation and certification of medical technology devices. Topics include ethical issues,
four clinical trial phases, EMC regulations, EU MDD and US FDA certification.
New Product Development
- Instrumentation & Software
The principles and implementation
of analogue and digital electronics, signal processing and human interface software.
Topics include generic electronic procedures, noise reduction, software platforms, data
display formats.
- Industrial Design & Manufacture
The principles of ergonomic and
functional design of medical technology devices along with the options and decision making
for component manufacture. Topics include: human ergonomic design, device functionality
and the human interface, electronic and mechanical component manufacturing methods,
influence of batch quantity.
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