Market Research: How Genetic Testing Will Be Integrated Into Clinical Practice by 2014

Medical educators have been grappling with what to teach future M.D.’s about using genetics in medicine and in so doing have attempted to paint a broad brush prediction about how genetics will likely be integrated into medical practice in the next 5 years or more.  These particular predictions are found in  “Report VI – Contemporary [...]

Need for Healthcare Information Integration and EHR Changing How BMET’s Work and BME’s Design

There has been a healthcare information revolution occurring in the hospitals and clinics where the rubber meets the road. It is a result of the convergence of many forces but particularly a government mandated national Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) system initiative, and the need to reduce healthcare cost.  One of the best examples of [...]

Looking for a Job? Get an Overview with Tomorrow’s Jobs from the OOH 2008-09

If you are trying to figure out what degree to invest your education money into or are out of a job looking for some insight into where you should look you can get an insight first hand from the U.S. Department of Labor. The Occupation Outlook Handbook for 2008-09  general overview gives a pretty [...]

Anecdotal Evidence of the Need for a BS BMET degree

Last year a relative with congestive heart failure took the chance and joined a clinical study in an attempt to advance medical science and possibly his life.  It didn’t work out as hoped.  During the long period of what we hoped would be recovery I had a chance to talk to the BMET in charge [...]

Number of BMET Graduating into Job Market in 2006

I created the following table from degree completion data at the NCES website.  It is important to know the number of BMET graduates because there has been a consistent issue in the past few years of a shortage of qualified BMET’s seeking industry jobs in their field.  The number of graduates holding that degree in [...]