Azpiroz-Leehan Joaquín, Martínez Licona Fabiola, Urbina Medal E Gerardo, Cadena Méndez Miguel, Sacristán Rock Emilio
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015;2015:3973-6. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319264.
Biomedical Engineering (BME) has been taught in Mexico at the undergraduate level for over forty years. The rationale for the introduction of this profession was to help manage and maintain the growing technological infrastructure in the health care system during the seventies. Owing to this, it is not surprising that early versions of the BME curricula were oriented towards clinical engineering and medical instrumentation. In the last decade the number of programs has grown from three in the seventies and eighties to fifty at present. This work is the result of the analysis of the BME programs in all the institutions that offer this degree in Mexico. Three main issues were studied: the curricula, the sub-disciplines that were emphasized in the programs and the job market. Results have shown a striking resemblance in most of the programs, which are mostly dedicated to teaching aspects of medical instrumentation and clinical engineering. These results reflect an agreement with the requirements of the job market, but since most job offerings are for low-paying positions in sales, service and hospital maintenance, we question the wisdom of stressing these sub-specialties at research universities, where faculties and research labs offer a wide variety of options. An analysis of work at these centers shows that most of the results are publications, so the need to emphasize translational research and partnerships with industry are suggested.
生物医学工程（BME）在墨西哥的本科教育中已经开展了四十多年。在七十年代引入这个专业的目的是帮助管理和维护医疗保健系统中不断增长的技术基础设施。因此，早期的BME课程版本以临床工程和医疗仪器为导向也就不足为奇了。在过去十年中，开设该学位课程的院校数量已从七十年代和八十年代的三所增加到目前的五十所。这项工作是对墨西哥所有提供该学位的机构中的BME课程进行分析的结果。研究了三个主要问题：课程设置、课程中强调的子学科以及就业市场。结果显示，大多数课程有显著的相似之处，这些课程大多致力于教授医疗仪器和临床工程方面的内容。这些结果反映了与就业市场需求的契合，但由于大多数招聘岗位是销售、服务和医院维护方面的低薪职位，我们质疑在研究型大学强调这些子专业的合理性，因为这些大学的教师和研究实验室提供了广泛的选择。对这些中心工作的分析表明，大多数成果都是出版物，因此建议强调转化研究以及与行业的合作关系。
