The Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society has produced an outline of activities to clarify categories of engineering in medical care. The outline is intended to provide health care personnel with a better understanding of the role of rapidly growing disciplines. CLINICAL ENGINEERING believes these description to be of great value and is reprinting them with permission. It appears to us that the three areas designate a beginning, broad field (BME), much like biology is to medicine, followed by a clinical unit (CE), much like medicine itself, and finally a subspecialty (rehabilitation or physical therapy, for example).
加拿大医学与生物工程学会制定了一份活动大纲，以阐明医疗保健领域的工程类别。该大纲旨在让医护人员更好地理解这些快速发展学科的作用。《临床工程学》认为这些描述很有价值，并在获得许可后予以转载。在我们看来，这三个领域代表了一个开端，一个广阔的领域（生物医学工程），很像生物学之于医学；接着是一个临床单元（临床工程），很像医学本身；最后是一个亚专业（例如康复或物理治疗）。
