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Dr Haylett is usually right about things but I was thinking his estimate was a bit high. I am looking at 7 of us for 250,000 population which comes out at about 1500. Mind you Estates look after some stuff here (depends how far you stretch the definition) so I guess you could up it to about 2000. Maybe double that if you include the private sector, so I would say 3-5 thousand.
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Hello there everybody; I`m a biomedical engineering student from Turkey and this is my last year in the school. Actually nowadays I can`t figure out how will I work after the school. I mean in Turkey electronics engineers are doing my job and this really irritates me  But I guess I`ll try to adapt to this situation. Is it like that in your countries as well, or is it like that only in my country?  Also I want to attend to a master education programme but I`m not sure about that. What would you suggest? Thanks a lot... AKIN
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Can’t see your problem Akin. What’s wrong with the idea of electronics engineers doing biomedical engineering? In my experience, most biomeds have a background in electronics of one sort or another. I assume we are talking about the repair and maintenance of medical equipment here? If you are just starting out, I would advise you to do some actual hands-on work in a hospital somewhere to see if you actually like it (I have seen quite a few guys who found that they didn’t really like it after all)! Then, after a while, you’ll be in a better position to decide what to do next. 
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If I may be permitted to loosely define “biomed” as any engineer or technician involved in the engineering support and maintenance of medical equipment of any type, has anybody got a clue how many there are out there? Anyone got any figures for biomeds worldwide, Europe, Aus, UK, USA etc., etc.? Anyone with any sort of update on this topic?
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I know a few with split personalities! Do they count?
But seriously I have often wondered! I like to think we are a special breed!
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Only if his name is Louis! But, yes, a special breed. At least I like to think so (too).
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This is a question we asked a while ago in a vain attempt to open the eyes of the VRCT (not raised that one for a while!). You could ask Jim & co. Divide their number by two then multiply by about five. That might give you an idea of the number of UK NHS biomeds.
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It shouldn't be too hard to arrive at a reasonable estimate of biomed techs working in the UK NHS, I wouldn't have thought. How many Trusts? How many hospitals of any size in each Trust grouping (on average)? Two, three? Again, on average, how many techs at each hospital? Five? Here's a place to start crunching the numbers. Although it says "UK", that list looks like only England to me.
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I believe there are approx 600 acute trusts with approx 8? staff in each hospital.
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