The medical profession uses many electrical and electronic devices such as pacemakers, electrocardiography machines, heart-lung machines, kidney dialysis machines, blood pressure monitors, centrifuges, chemical analyzers, radiation meters, spectrophotometers, electroencephalograph monitors, diathermy units, and other biomedical equipment. Biomedical technicians install, inspect, test, maintain, calibrate, and repair biomedical equipment. Biomedical technicians may teach hospital staff members how to operate biomedical equipment, assist in purchasing instruments, and perform safety tests on electrical distribution systems. Biomedical equipment technicians are employed throughout the world, working for hospitals, equipment manufacturers, distributors, medical supply houses, contract maintenance companies, medical research organizations and teaching establishments. Other technicians are employed by the United States Government Agencies, the U.S. Armed Forces, Veteran s Administration Hospitals, public health services, and research institutes.
Positions begin at the entry level.
Courses in electronics, electricity, and mechanics are recommended. Be proficient at electronic soldering and terminating wire connections using solderless type connectors. Use a curve tracer to check all types of diodes, bipolar transistors, and field effect transistors. Demonstrate proficiency in using electronic test instrumentation dual trace scopes, frequency counters, and function generators. Be proficient at troubleshooting half-wave, full wave, bridge power supplies.