Once again I hope I can be forgiven for quoting from one of my posts:-
What I would support is something along the lines of the Certification programmes that the United States has. Certified Biomedical Engineering Technician (CBET) for general biomeds, with similar programmes for techs specialising in either laboratory equipment or imaging (x-ray kit etc.). You have to sit (and pass) an examination, and (for those who haven't seen them) the questions are quite tough! Why can't we have something like that in the UK?
... but I feel that the time has come for this topic to get a fair hearing (?) under its own thread. So, let's start with the
AAMI.
As a related note,
this is where a lot of biomeds in the States get their initial training. Those of us in the "rest of the world" can only but look on in envy (Arborfield, it ain't)!
