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Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Biomedical Equipment Technology graduate, you can expect to be challenged by modern medicine and technical advances daily! The program prepares graduates to work with equipment found in hospitals, medical centers, clinics and physician's offices. Graduates' job responsibilities may include calibrating equipment and quality assurance; performing preventive and corrective maintenance; training staff to properly and safely operate equipment; documenting repair and service; selecting and installing equipment; serving on safety committees; promoting facility-wide safe equipment use; monitoring work performed by outside vendors; handling purchasing requisitions and inventory maintenance.

BET graduates hold job titles such as biomedical equipment technician–BMET, biomedical electronics technician, biomedical engineering technician, biomedical technician, field service engineer or representative. Graduates also work in related fields as technical service sales representatives, medical equipment sales representatives or technical specialists.

 
Employers want technicians who can:
  • Self-motivated;
  • Committed to customer service;
  • Capable of working independently or with a team;
  • Positive and professional;
  • Committed to improving themselves;
  • Able to set priorities; and
  • Resourceful and productive.
Industry Standards:
BET program graduates can take the International Certification Commission's Certified Biomedical Equipment Technician Examination. After passing the exam and gaining two years of work experience, you can earn full certification, which can lead to higher salaries.
 

 

 
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