<p>What career options will I have if I study BME at JHU as an undergraduate? I am not sure if I even want to enter the pre-med field, although I hope to stay in the biology field. I heard BME is a hard course, and it is the hardest route for pre-med. Is this true? Is it hard to find jobs if you major in BME? What type of jobs would a BME major have? What options do I have after undergraduate if I major in BME?</p>
<p>I would def say it is tied with Chem E for hardest pre-med major possible. After graduating you will be able to become various forms of a biomedical engineer. Such as a tissue engineer, bioelectronics engineer, clinical engineer. Clinical engineers are the eng's that run hospital. Everything you see in the hospital all the machinary, the set up of everything, matinance of CAT scanners, etc is all run by them. There are many many fields available after graduation.</p>
<p>Hey agrophobic, just curious about what your handle means.</p>
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<p>bluedevilmike,</p>
<p>its just made up :)</p>
<p>Are these jobs as popular and high paying as the top jobs? I don't mean to be superficial, but I have heard too many horror stories of people majoring in something unconventional like enviornmental science and end up with a low paying job which isn't worth the degree</p>
<p>"As the top jobs"? My friend, BME is the top jobs.</p>
<p>(And yes, yes, there are other top jobs as well. Finance, consulting, ChemE, etc.)</p>
<p>Really? It must be one of those new, large growing job sectors, is it?</p>
<p>So if I plan to pursue a career in BME, do I have to go to med school as well? What options do I have after graduation?</p>
<p>I don't mean to sound redundant, but biomedical engineers can... well, be biomedical engineers. They design stuff. Often they go back for a master's degree.</p>
<p>So if they decide to go to continue their education they don't apply to med school, correct? I got the impression that bioengineers have to apply to med school because it is part of the med field.</p>
<p>No, half of the biomeds want to go into medicine, the other half don't. But many biomeds do get in because they have a very good prep for med school with the difficulty of the major.</p>
<p>But won't the difficulty of the major hurt your chances in med school because it will be harder to maintain a higher GPA? Will BME better prepare you for the MCATs? Is it logical to believe that if you put forth the time and effort, although it may be very difficult, it is a good route to take to go to med school?</p>
<p>Depends how good you are at it. If you can maintain 3.4 or above in BME, which isnt easy, your in pretty good shape for med school. From my experience of people from my school applying who were BMEs some were able to get in with lower GPAs than other majors would need. This being said engineers usually do very very well on the physical sciences section of the MCAT since it is beat in our minds since the beginning. BME according to some stats that I haven't been able to find for a while has the highest acceptance rate into med school for any major. I believe its something 75% or something around there. Basically if you do BME put in the work, get over a 30 on the MCAT, keep up a gpa above 3.4 you are in pretty good shape as far as getting med school goes.</p>
<p>It seems like a great option to have if you are pre-med, but you decide sometime in college that med school isn't right for you. Then you have a solid foundation for a good job out of college.</p>
<p>Another question. Do a lot of biomed engineers that continue through med school still use their engineering knowledge as a doctor, or do they completely separate from the biomedical engineering field? Is it useful being a biomedical engineer with an M.D.?</p>
<p>just curous, what are the advantages of choose bme as a career as oppose to a doctor? Anybody here who is pursuing a career in BME? It sounds interesting</p>
<p>As a BME you would develop medical devices of all sorts, both electrical and material, or you would be a clinical engineer running a hospital. If you choose this over being a doc you have a fairly high salary starting at about 50k topping off a little over 100k. You work fairly normal hours and its always diff. Some clinical engineers earn over 100k, and their job is extremely worthwhile, like a docs. But you need two years extra schooling to become a clinical engineer. But, most hospitals pay for it.</p>
<p>Yes biomeds do use their knowledge in practicing medicine. How many docs out there can tell you how almost any medical device works? How many can build their own EKG? At my school as part of senior design we are expected to build a working EKG machine in 4 weeks at the beginning the year. Computer program, chip, board and all. Also think about biomaterials and how well it could be applied by having a doc who is also a BME. With this you can basically design your own stuff to use, and be able to have the medical knowledge to know whether or not it will work, and if it will be useful.</p>
<p>For med school admissions, would it be better to major under bioengineer or biotechnology, in particular, at UCSD? I was also wondering what the exact differences were and if they both fall under the category of BME?</p>
<p>Both are different from BME. Bioengineering deals with engineering in terms of biology in general, it covers some medical things, but not as much as BME. Its more like biotech in dealing with animals, food, etc.</p>