• Question: What is the best work experience option for medical engineering ? I know that it is not your area of expertise, but I though you night know someone.

    Asked by TELLY TUBBIE 12 to Matthew, Neil, Paula, Pete, Philippa on 17 Mar 2015.
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      Neil Taylor answered on 17 Mar 2015:

      Hi!

      My immediate thought is the NHS. I found this link, which lists a “Healthcare Scientist” as one of the options. Might be worth a look, but as you say – not my area of expertise!

      http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/media/1487492/Work_experience_in_the_NHS.pdf

      Otherwise, you could get some work experience as a mechnical/electrical engineer, as I’m sure those disciplines would be used in medical engineering.

      Hope this helps!

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      Philippa Jefferis answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      May also be worth contacting a university that is near to you and seeing if they do any medical engineering or similar. They would have the links to industry but you could also work on the research side of engineering.

      Great to hear you’re thinking of work experience, it’s really important to get lots of experience.

Comments

  • Photo: TELLY TUBBIE 12

    TELLY TUBBIE 12 commented on :

    Thankyou for your response. I will certaintly try your suggestions.

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    Naomi commented on :

    Hi Tellytubbie. I’m an engineer in the health zone. Contacting universities is a good idea , we host work experience students in our research groups sometimes, the NHS is also a good idea. It’s hard to give you advice on companies as I don’t know where you are located and often biomed engineering firms are quite small. I would literally google biomedical engineering companies in your area and then email them with a short cv asking if they ever provide placements. If you can’t get into a medical company then any mechanical or electrical engineering company is still very relevant. I have been a mechanical engineer for 15 but only a biomedical one for 4! So the skills you would learn would still be very useful. Good luck!