HealthManagement, Volume 4 / Issue 4 / 2009
ESEM, the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
HITM is proud to announce a new Associate Member: ESEM, the European Society for Engineering and Medicine “Educating students and professionals in bridging the disciplines”.
Focus of ESEM:
1. Educating professionals in bridging healthcare and engineering by:
ÓOrganising discussion symposia on controversial topics in BME,
Ó Organising engineering workshops at medical congresses, and
Ó Realising textbooks, like the Primer that contains basic engineering knowledge for medics.
2. Educating professionals in bridging the disciplines within the broad area of Biomedical Engineering by:
ÓOrganising workshops, focused on a problem area like ventilation;
Ó Showing all available technologies, and
Ó Organising congresses showing the latest developments in the broad area of Biomedical Engineering.
3. Educating students in bridging healthcare and engineering by:
ÓOrganising summer schools for medical and engineering students, focused on teamwork,
ÓOffering a consortium of high-quality universities with excellent Bachelor's and Master's programmes that facilitates the exchange of students, and
Ó Offering a consortium of high-tech industries that facilitates students in finding traineeship, Master's project or job.
4. Educating students in bridging the disciplines within the broad area of Biomedical Engineering by:
Ó Organising workshops where MSc- and PhD-students present their work;
Ó Feedback from the ESEM board members, and
Ó Organising an Erasmus Mundus European Masters in Biomedical Engineering.
For more information, please visit: www.esem.org.