Q. What is a Clinical Engineer ?
A. Clinical (means the same medical) Engineers are engineers that are involved in the delivery of healthcare and medicine accross all disciplines, sometimes called medical or biomedical engineers, medical electronics or healthcare engineers.Areas of activity include medical equipment management, equipment and device maintenance and repair and healthcare infrastructure engineering.
A2. A person with engineering training and skills emloyed in a clinical environment
Q. How are Clinical Engineers involved in medicine ?
Without engineers involvement in it is certain that medicine would not have developed into the leading edge technolgy of today, they are involved ofen in the idea, conception, design, manufacture, commissioning, training, use, modification, maintenance, calibration, repair and decommissioning of medical devices and thats just before lunch.....
Q. What especially do you love about your job ?
A. Mainly all of it but especially the satisfaction of fixing something that is needed then used to save a life.
A2. Theres not much not to love, the pay and pension are both very good, the works interesting and a challenge, Im pretty much my own boss, the Nurses are lovely and you know what, its not cold indoors, what more do you want !
Q. What do you hate about your job ?
A. Hate is too strong, I dislike the odd thing, the odd person winds me up but nothing to mention
A2. I refuse to answer in case he reads this.
Q. Who are the people you work with ?
A. Doctors, Nurses, Physios, Clinicians, Cleaners, everybody including other Medical Engineers.
A2. All the above and patients too
Q. What do you think of the CEN Student/Mentor Network and Study Days ?
A. Exactly what it says on the tin, usually experienced engineers helping less experienced ones or students
A2. Look, if it is organised help or study events, in my experiece, it always helps, sometimes it even inspires and that is never a bad thing in my books
Q. How much money do you earn ?
A. All my wife can spend, not a penny more !
A2. Bit nosey arent you ?, about 40k/year
Q. Merc or BMW ?
A1 BMW
A2 Audi
Q. What do you drive ?
A1. BMW 3 2.5 SEi (old for work) M5 limited edition, very scary (not so old but at 13mpg in sport and M Mode, hardly used)
A2. Everybody, round the bend
Q. Mcdonalds or Burger King ?
A1. Pass
A2. Mcdonalds, only breakfast though.
Q. Indian or Chinese ?
A1. Chinese
A2. Clinical Engineers code is to love all ladies, regardless of origin 