Engineering in medicine.

Abstract

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).