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Ministry-approved title: 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:
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The healthcare industry in Canada and globally is growing rapidly. To support demand, healthcare depends on new and innovative medical technology to improve diagnosis, monitoring and treatment, resulting in health care providers becoming dependent on the technology to function properly, to be available, and to be managed in a cost effective and efficient manner by qualified biomedical engineering technologists.
Your skill set includes the ability to assess current and innovative medical technology, purchase, install, calibrate, maintain and manage the life cycle of critical medical equipment, as well as being a pivotal part of the Healthcare team. Biomedical engineering technologists are an essential part of the health care team because they have these skills and ability to liaise with both the clinical users and the technical providers.
Durham College’s Biomedical Engineering Technology lab is fully equipped including:
Students use biomedical patient simulators, test and measurement devices and learn to use them to support the fully equipped medical electronics repair department.
Employers require the functional expertise of our graduates. The program covers:
Digital Health Canada
Students in this program receive free membership to Digital Health Canada, a not-for-profit professional association that provides members with numerous educational and professional career benefits. Membership includes access to learning and networking opportunities, unique awards applications, as well as discounts for Digital Health Canada online and on-demand courses, Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS-CA) exam fees, and event registrations.
The courses listed below are for incoming students. If you are a current student, please refer to your program of study for the year you began your program. Your program of study can be found on MyDC.
Courses, course descriptions and delivery formats are subject to change.
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Students will come to campus to complete in-person learning requirements. Detailed schedules, with course-specific delivery information, will be available after registration. Courses, course descriptions and delivery formats are subject to change.
Your learning experience will be complemented by a 300-hour field placement at the end of your third year, which will enable you to utilize your newly acquired skills and gain valuable industry-related experience. Each student will have slightly different experiences working with medical devices and health-care professionals, which often could lead to full-time careers, or at minimum an excellent reference.
To be eligible for the field placement component of this program you must (at your expense) provide:
Qualified Biomedical Engineering Technology graduates may be eligible to apply their academic credits toward further study through Durham College’s partnerships with many Canadian and international colleges and universities, including:
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Sandra has been a leader in healthcare technology both in hospital and instrumental in developing the startup of the Biomedical engineering technology program at Durham College. Her passion is mentoring young biomedical students to have excellent opportunities for customer focused careers in healthcare.
Richard has been progressively growing the learning opportunities and establishing excellent technology practice in capstone projects that set Durham students apart.
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the need for improving health technology management and creating a common practice in all health technology acquisitions and utilizations. Digital content in these modules facilitates the acquisition of knowledge and skills in health technology management. These modules are free.
This project is made possible with funding by the Government of Ontario and through eCampusOntario’s support of the Virtual Learning Strategy.
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