Bio-Medical

BIOMEDICAL TECHNICIAN 8361

A career as a Biomedical Technician offers you the opportunity to specialize in biomedical and medical equipment. You will install, repair, calibrate and provide preventive maintenance to ultrasound, defibrillators, telemetry, vital sign monitors and other vital medical equipment used in hospitals and medical facilities.

TOPICS YOU WILL STUDY

Hospital and medical equipment

Component and circuit analysis

Linear solid state devices and video servicing

Digital logic and computer interfacing systems

Medical terminology

Human anatomy

INTERNSHIPS AND CERTIFICATION

After completing or during your last semester at Vincennes University’s Biomedical Technician Program, you may choose to accept an internship in a hospital’s biomedical electronics repair facility. You will work directly under the supervision of their biomedical staff. Once the internship has been successfully fulfilled and the time requirements are met, the AAMI can administer the CBET Certification examination.

TYPES OF EMPLOYMENT

Biomedical Service Technician

Manufacturer’s Representative

Biomedical Contract Maintenance

PLACEMENT AND SALARIES

Students in the electronics class of 2003 received job offers with an average starting salary of over $31,000, excluding overtime. Some received starting salaries over $ 35,000. All graduates seeking jobs in biomedical work were placed. Typical Biomedical Technician salaries for experienced technicians is in access of $40,000 per year, with some specializations making as much as twice that amount.

For more information contact:

Don Williams
Vincennes University
1002 North First St. TB-10
Office # A227
Vincennes, IN 47591

812-888-5801
dwilliams@vinu.edu