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1. Course overview

This course on Biomedical Equipment Technician Training: Maintenance & Repair you will learn as the title already indicates about working principles, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of biomedical equipment. You will learn skills to perform maintenance routines and diagnose problems in sophisticated medical equipment.

Besides being able to read materials in English, not much basic prior knowledge is necessary. The course will provide information on basic physiology and engineering theory necessary to understand the working principles of the explained medical devices.

The overall aim of the course is to provide you with sufficient basic knowledge so that you, with only a little hands-on training, are able to support hospitals in maintaining and repairing their medical equipment. Moreover, we hope that you will become enthusiastic about this subject, and maybe choose a formal education in this subject. This is important because many hospitals, especially in low resource settings have many medical devices that are not functioning well anymore.

2. Learning objectives

So, what will you actually learn in this course? At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• understand the function of medical devices through basic knowledge of physiology and engineering;
• read and understand medical device user guides and maintenance manuals;
• maintain and calibrate medical equipment so that it will remain working;
• analyse and troubleshoot a medical device and know how to repair it;
• work safely on a device and know when a device is safe to use.

3. Course structure

The course is organized in 7 modules over 7 weeks. Module 1 discusses a few general principles that will come in handy when learning more about some devices, and modules 2-7 will each discuss medical devices from a different subcategory. Note that the complexity of devices differ and therefore also the amount of time needed to study the material differ per device. In the following few pages we will further explain what will be discussed in each of these modules.

4. Resources, Tools & Browsers

All educational resources will be available in the course. They consist of short videos and readings.

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