Also called: BMET, Medical Equipment Repairer
Inspects, maintains and repairs medical equipment in hospitals.
Your pager goes off: a patient monitor in the ICU isn't reading oxygen. You test it, swap a bad cable, and run a safety check. Then you spend the afternoon on scheduled inspections of infusion pumps and defibrillators.
Approximate May 2024 figures.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Associate's degree (2-year), about 2 years after high school. Associate in biomedical equipment technology; military training is common.
Ways in: 2-year college, Military, Certification. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Biomedical Equipment Technology.
Growing much faster than average (about 13% over 10 years). Approximate projection; much faster than average.
Low risk for 10 years. Equipment self-diagnostics help, but repairing pumps, monitors and beds across a hospital stays hands-on.
Classes: Electronics CTE, Biology, Physics, Algebra.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-9062.
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