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Biomedical Engineering
Engineering for medicine: implants, prosthetics, imaging and medical devices.
Who it suits
IRC
- Thinker: analysing, researching, figuring out why
- Builder: hands-on, tools, machines, outdoors
- Organiser: structure, data, precision
Students here tend to be a bit more curious than average.
Builds on
Mathematics ●●Physics ●●Biology ●●Chemistry ●●
Typically offers
High salary · Job security · Working with technology · Impact on society or the planet
Where it leads
Biomedical engineer · Medical device engineer · Clinical engineer · Bioinstrumentation engineer
20 programmes tracked
🇨🇭 Switzerland 20
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