Biomedical and Software Engineering

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<p>Hi, I am a Software engineering student in my 3rd year. I have recently got interested in medical devices and technologies. When I did my research and asked some people around I heard that I will need a Biomedical engineering degree. What i am wondering is if it is possible for me to get into the medical technologies field with a software engineering degree. If not, would schools consider my engineering degree when applying for a masters in Biomedical engineering or are the the too disciplines too distinct from one another to be combined? </p>

<p>I am appreciate any answer that I can get.</p>

<p>Thank you in advance</p>

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<p>I am sure you could get some kind of job developing software for a medical device company. There probably won’t be a lot of jobs in that field, but with some effort you could probably find some to apply to.</p>

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Just personal thought… it would be better if you have some knowledge in those areas…
It’s a very “responsible” field… people can die for code bugs…I was told about an incident in my intro to computing… that disaster made 3 people died and 100+ people exposed to radiations…
These days people are more careful but it’s better to have those knowledges, because the designers may not know how to communicate with the programmers correctly</p>

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<p>Jwxie is referring to this: [Therac-25</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25]Therac-25”>Therac-25 - Wikipedia) I believe.</p>

<p>There are a lot of software companies working in the Electronic medical records field. For instance see: [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.epic.com/]Epic[/url”&gt;http://www.epic.com/]Epic[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>Yes. But… oh 6 people died. no one should die anyway! Well yeah…
Thanks, scorp. My professor didn’t mention the name of the incident.</p>

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<p>So what you guys are saying is that is possible to get into the medical devices/ technologies by doing software engineering, just a little harder to get into. So does getting a masters in Biomedical engineering even a good idea considering all that facts.</p>

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<p>I heard people saying that B. BME doesn’t get you a good job placement, because the ME industry prefer at least graduate level (and I agree…). So it might be a good idea to do BME and work on software development concentration. </p>

<p>This is just my personal speculation. Some solid knowledge in BME can help, although you will continue to learn as you work. Software engineering is nothing like writing a hello world program, and I am sure you know that already.</p>

<p>I’d imagine there are a lot people do software development that graduate with BME.
Another speculation is that even if you don’t have BME background, the company will provide bootcamp, or asks you to attend training before assigning you with a serious project. Time is money, a good software engineer (very experience) might suit better than the one with BME background, but if the company decides to take you they would have to provide that kind of assistance…</p>