Biomedical Engineering Characteristics of Training Model of Education and Training Programme of Reform and Practice Xu Zhang, Zhicheng Liu, Yalin Ye, Xiaopeng Han, Anyu Chen School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing , China Abstract — he analysis of biomedical engineering education abroad on the basis of characteristics, with the domestic development of the field of biomedical engineering features on how medical schools under the school advantages, biomedical engineering in the reform of professional education and practice. Keywords — biomedical engineering, characteristics, training mode, curriculum I. INTRODUCTION
Biomedical engineering, rise in the United States in the 1960s, has developed rapidly in recent years. By integrating life sciences and engineering, it has made progress in methodological innovation and the establishment of technology platforms, etc., while also promoted social and economic development (formation of many new industries and industrial sectors), and created a substantial social benefits. And thus biomedical engineering has attracted widespread attention to the developed countries, and even into their national objectives [1]. China founded biomedical engineering undergraduate professional in 1977.As at the end of 2007, more than 90 colleges and universities have opened from the undergraduate level to Dr. Biomedical Engineering [2]. Concentrated in the engineering and medical schools, this professional is an interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary particularity in the training mode. There has been emphasis on engineering or medical phenomenon, not really reflect the multidisciplinary medical engineering crossover characteristics. Along with the development of their disciplines, education industry needs to constantly explore the issue such as how to better integrate science, engineering and medicine to the organic combination; making the students nurtured in the knowledge structure and the basic quality; cultivating the types of people who can better apply what they have learned. Capital Medical University is one of the earlier schools in biomedical engineering professional education in China. In 1978 it began biomedical engineering undergraduate education pilot. In 1987 the school set up a biomedical engineering and began the formal admission. Running in the early light of prevailing in the health sector in biomedical engineering and technical personnel in extremely short, the major consideration of school is the combination of medical
and engineering disciplines, and set up a sophisticated, the new interdisciplinary. At that time, according to the biomedical engineering understanding of the school and foreign experience, training objectives, both for training and know how to understand the engineering disciplines of the medical knowledge of senior personnel. Education position is: biomedical engineering senior professional and technical personnel training entities. March 2001 Capital Medical University established the Institute of Biomedical Engineering on the basis of the original biomedical engineering. According to the school’s own advantages and social development needs ,the Institute of Biomedical Engineering has gradually developed to two professional (biomedical engineering, prosthetics and Orthopaedic Engineering), three professional direction (of the hearing, medical imaging equipment and technology, quality supervision and medical equipment technology). Training direction from the biomedical engineering personnel training extended to the relevant biomedical engineering and technical personnel training, and gradually meets the needs of society and academic development. After more than 20 years of development, in education mode continuously optimize educational resources, the school has made full use of regional advantages and taking advantage of the medical school, and gradually formed its own characteristics education. II. ADAPT TO THE NEEDS OF SOCIETY TRAINING OBJECTIVES
With the 21st century of life science, as well as the increasing importance of the continuous development of hightech needs, modern medicine is increasingly inseparable from the development of modern science and engineering and technical support. In the medical and life sciences fields, the urgent need to science, engineering and medical personnel will be cross-disciplinary approach to introduce modern technology work in the field of medicine. Biomedical engineering and technical personnel needs widely distributed in hospitals, medical equipment and medical research institutions. Take the social demand as the specialized raise goal is when internationally approves criterion, therefore we will raise the localization of target in: Raise both rational, labor, medical interdisciplinary studies knowledge, and has the strong synthesis application ability, has
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research application ability which the life sciences, the electronic technology, the computer technology and the information science related basic theory knowledge as well as the medicine and the engineering technology unify, can high-level engineering technology talented person who for the foundation medicine correlation technique research, the clinical medicine correlation technique research serves. The institute raises the student has the foundation to be solid, the aspect of knowledge is broad, medicine and project union close and so on characteristics. III. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING OF PERSONNEL TRANING MODE
Biomedical engineering is a highly integrated cross disciplines. From the development of academic history, the new disciplines have a big traditional disciplines intersect or mature role of the results. Moreover, the meaning of biomedical engineering interdisciplinary, which is not the same biomedical engineering branch of a combination of simple, but multidisciplinary, wide-ranging, high-level integration. In addition, the biomedical engineering disciplines are involved in a very wide area. It can be said that the number of science and engineering branch, it will have a number of biomedical engineering fields, such multidisciplinary related to the intersections of all science, engineering disciplines and all branches of biology and medicine. As a result, any breakthrough progress of the subject can be made to affect the development of biomedical engineering, to the speed of development very rapidly. A. Training Curriculum Training Curriculum decided the basic pattern at the same time, on the subject of micro and macro aspects of the development of response, reflected the changing pattern of traditional education, the establishment of - psychological Social curriculum system [3]. According to the disciplines, we will be subject to the original type-based curriculum, changes for the modular core curriculum. The basic curriculum in accordance with the guiding ideology of "re-base, Broad - range" ideas of education. Refers to raise plan which the domestic and foreign biomedical engineering specialized educational expert formulates, our curriculum mainly includes: public infrastructure programmes, the medical foundation courses, the basic courses, professional courses, elective courses, and practice on graduation design (thesis) 7 a module [4]. Application of capacity-building to the main line, teaching the theory and practice of combining teaching, medicine and engineering that is closely integrated prominent professional skills training to reduce compulsory,
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additional elective courses; optimize the structure of courses, reduce repetitive. Specific curriculum in the process of public infrastructure in addition to state provisions of the humanities and social science courses, according to today's development needs, we have provided medical ethics and medical psychology courses. Medical foundation courses include anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry, in the science, diagnosis and surgery. Major projects including basic courses based circuit analysis, analog electronics, digital electronics, signals and systems, medical sensors. Professional courses main tenets of the medical equipment, computer interface technology, medical signal processing, medical image processing, and biomechanics. Elective courses under the direction of different professional disciplines characteristics and colleges were set up in audiology, hospital equipment management, imaging equipment and apparatus, the quality of supervision and management of medical equipment, biomedical information, biological control, the theory of medical laser. And in accordance with the objective of fostering the knowledge and skills needed structure, we must strengthen basic education, infiltration between arts and science, combination of science and engineering, and knowledge and ability to unify. In the end, a unique knowledge of the framework is gradually formed. B. Practical Teaching Teaching in practice, we stressed that the students practical ability and the cultivation of creative thinking ability. We integrated the basis of the original laboratory for functional of diverse, open laboratory. At the same time, we have a comprehensive reform of the experimental curriculum, reduce verification experiment to increase design experiment. Students in the second grade, we set up a second classroom and Technology group activities for students, so that they could understand the subject’s developments, preliminary study scientific research methods. The teachers of second classroom and scientific and technological activities group are all chaired national or provincial-level research projects of professors and/or associate professors. At the event, teachers not only take the quality of training of research, but also serving as mentors to guide students in accordance with their interest in establishing professional direction and the next phase of study, employment objectives. Practice has proved that this approach has yielded good results. Through the second classroom or technology group activities, many students have tempered the research capacity. Some students also issued high-level papers.
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Capital Medical University has 14 affiliated hospitals, is the most abundant medical resources comprehensive medical university, providing the best medical environment for the biomedical engineering education. By Board of Education in Beijing encourage and support, aiming at the medical related technology talent market, we developed our program closely integrated with the advantage in biomedical engineering technology to more deep-seated clinical actual education. In 1999 we launched a biomedical engineering undergraduate education to expand. According to our school and Beijing geographical advantages, we established three professional interests in biomedical engineering: audiological professional direction of medical, imaging equipment and technology professional direction, supervision of the quality of medical equipment and technological expertise direction. Relying on key national disciplines of otorhinolaryngology, audiological professional program is in order to raising senior technical staff who will engage in language training and rehabilitation of hearing and hearing language-related R & D, design, production, assembly and after-sales services. Taking full advantage of the school’s localization in the capital, higher hospitals technical level, fully-equipped medical imaging, medical imaging equipment and technical personnel training play a important role in enhancing the large and medium-sized medical imaging equipment utilization and clinics in country's hospitals, improvement in medical imaging equipment and technology work of the professional staff level. Medical Device Quality Supervision technical training professional people to fill China's
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quality supervision and medical equipment gaps in training technical personnel, changes in the quality of our medical equipment and technical personnel serious lack of supervision of the status quo. After years of practice and exploration, our biomedical engineering undergraduate education gradually formed its own school characteristics: play works advantages, and promote the development of medicine, medical and engineering prominent characteristics combined with the focus on medical technology development related projects, in biomedical engineering technology to the more deep-seated actual clinical services, and promote the level of clinical medicine and rehabilitation clinics increased.
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