Currently the health care sector is expanding rapidly aided by the advances of medical technology. Huge volume of medical information is becoming available to health care personals. To maintain such sophisticated technologies requires high level skilled specialists in the area of instrumentation and medical informatics. At the moment, the dependence on foreign expertise is high for running health care systems.
The demand for Biomedical Technology Specialists is increasing in several areas:
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Academic institutions, where medical equipment is used for training and research.
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Health care institutions (public and private).
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Medical equipment industry.
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Sales and marketing of medical equipment.
As the health sector is growing faster in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia resulting in the introduction of new technologies in hospital institutions. Thus, the national need for specialists in the field of biomedical technology arises and becomes a national priority. As a consequence, training in this field is required urgently. The outcomes of this program is to graduate the needed specialists in the field of quality control, maintenance, management, installation and upgrading of medical equipment in Saudi Arabia.
The educational objectives of the Biomedical Technology program are aligned with the mission of PSAU and the College of Applied Medical Sciences, and the Saudi Vision 2030 . The objectives of this program are to educate students to:
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Acquire a multidisciplinary expertise in the field of medical technology including hardware and software medical technologies.
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Pursue higher education and research in the field of biomedical technology.
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Have a societal responsibility and contributions to the profession.
