Medical Engineering (M2)

AVAILABLE IN 2010

Medical engineering (IM) combines technology with medical practice, technology playing an increasingly important role in disease management and becoming a major economic activity.

UPMC provides teaching and placements in all fields of medical engineering. This RIM master in "medical engineering" (master followed by the doctorate in the LMD system) is the basis to all UPMC Science and Technology Bachelor majors. The course is designed to train the future players in the health technology development field.

This specialization is open to both students from the traditional Materials Science or Life Sciences majors, and to students on courses newly designed for their reorientation after having begun their studies in medicine and pharmacy. The specialization is designed to provide students with a dual scientific and medical culture while broadening their initial basic knowledge and combining applied science and medical disciplines, enabling them to develop the medical technologies of the future.
Based on coherent teaching units and validation of training this specialization is open to science, medicine or pharmacy students. The teaching method and group work involving students from various backgrounds is an essential advantage of this course, as it emulates situations which have led to developments in medical technology in the past.

Subject areas include:

1. Technology in the context of current and future requirements in the healthcare sector
2. Medical disciplines in the context of their technological requirements
3. Vocational training targeting medical progress, business creation and production of wealth

Graduates may later integrate all fields of activity relating to medical instrumentation, the research and development sector and sales sector, through hospital engineering, clinical trial support, acquisition support, biomedical signal processing to medical imaging.

 

Opportunities

This vocational specialization offers practical and general courses and extended work placements (4 to 6 months) in hospitals or medical instrumentation companies.

Students will acquire skills in instrumental scientific and technological know-how in response to patient treatment requirements and savoir-être in the professional, health industrial and hospital fields.

• Research and development in medical instrumentation
• Operational marketing for medical instrumentation
• Hospital engineer
• Clinical research associate
• Medical imaging engineer
• Robotic systems engineer.

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