<p>my BME PHD is admitted by medical schools and departments of BME in college of engineering. i am confused to choose which is better for my research and career. Could someone suggest to me? </p>
<p>are you saying you have a PhD in BME and are deciding whether to take a post doc position in a medical school vs. a college of engineering at a university?</p>
<p>no. i am apply to PhD programs of medical school/college of engineering as a BS of BME. Thank a lot for your help. </p>
<p>i want to know the merits and demerits studying BME at medical school and college of engineering.</p>
<p>Some BME programs are attached to medical school, like Stanford although they are still considered an engineering deparment. My guess is that when you are medical school, you work on more sciency research and in an independent engineering school, more of an engineering reseach.</p>
<p>and as for the future career, which is advantageous to employment?</p>
<p>biomedical science and biomedical engineering has different focus and bias</p>
<p>I suggest you explore some careers. What is it about those jobs that interest you? Or pick certain companies you’d like to work for. What are they looking for? What are the qualifications they want their job prospects to have? For this, go to a job site, like Indeed or Glassdoor or Monster to learn. Then go to a company website. Most list career postings. Read those to learn more. I think it’s disasterous to ask which focus you should choose because you need to be answering that. </p>
<p>What lima said.</p>
<p>Most PhD students choose a school based on their interests more than whether they can get a job. There are jobs out there for PhDs in BME no matter what you pick.</p>
<p>I met someone locally who went through the whole BME program with an engineering focus, did a postdoc where he totally changed his focus to sciences and is now a faculty member at a med school with science focused research grants. </p>
<p>biomedical science is not biomedical engineering. If you are talking about a PhD in biomedical sciences from a medical school vs. a PhD in biomedical engineering from a college of engineering then you are talking about pretty different degrees.</p>
<p>A PhD is largely a process degree anyway, not a concrete skills degree. If you do a PhD in biomedical engineering through a medical school, that just means your research is probably more translationally oriented than if you go through a department in a college of engineering. It’s really a matter of what interests you more.</p>