New Associate Member

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.