• Question: For how long have you been a trainee, and when do you think you will become a proper clinical engineer?

    Asked by lara.ward to Simon on 16 Jun 2015.
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      Simon Marchant answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Hi Lara! Good question. I’ve been a trainee for about a year now, and in two more years I’ll be allowed to take the final exams. After that I will (hopefully) be a clinical engineer, allowed to work on things that patients and NHS staff use. You have to have an engineering or physics degree to become a trainee clinical engineer though, so all together the training ends up being longer than for a doctor or dentist!

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