Engineering World Health trains biomedical equipment technicians (BMETs) in developing countries, through support from the GE Foundation. Our training program includes training local BMETs in their home country or region and working with local partners to achieve a sustainable training program that can be perpetuated by local institutions for years after the direct involvement of EWH in the country. This strategy allows the countries we work in to achieve a locally supported, long-lasting solution for the challenges of medical equipment maintenance and repair.
EWH relies on experienced BMET’s across the developed world to make these programs a reality and instruct local personnel. These instructions are for the most part at a beginning level. There are also opportunities for very experienced BMET’s and Clinical Engineers to teach at a more advanced level as well. The EWH BMET team works hard to manage these programs and to provide curriculum through partnership with Duke University. Instructors give their practical knowledge and hospital experience to provide instruction on specialized topics to the local BMETs and build capacity for local educational institutions.
Becoming an instructor with EWH is an exciting opportunity that typically involves a visit abroad for anywhere from two to eight weeks. Longer assignments are possible for highly experienced BMET’s as well. Instructors will be asked to prepare and deliver a certain amount of lessons per week (from the written Duke curriculum) in conjunction with the EWH BMET team. Hands-on, practical work with the students, both in the lab and their hospital, is also a part of the program.
For more specific information on our BMET program, please follow this link: ewh.org/bmet
Traveling to hospitals in the developing world to inspect and repair medical equipment and provide training to local staff is a humanitarian effort which is personally very rewarding.
See some more of the world and use your BMET skills to help people. Teach classes and help spread the BMET profession around the world while visibly and positively improving healthcare in the developing world.
If you have experience teaching or mentoring BMET's we are hiring for full and part-time positions in the developing world. Please check out our overall mission at: www.ewh.org
Interested? Please send a cover letter and resume to: EdHutton@ewh.org with the word BMET in the subject line.
Salary commensurate with experience.
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