<p>I heard that there are many type of Biomedical Engineering. I am planning to major in Biomedical Engineering: Premedical. What is the type of Biomedical engineering, they offer? can i choose? Also, I am wondering that after graduated from this major, can I work as Biomedical Engineering? if yes what type of Biomed engineering? or the only way is to get into med school?</p>
<p>This is a very good post that I am sure many others (like myself) also have questions about. Any help would be greatly appreciated! :D</p>
<p>No one can answer this? :(</p>
<p>You don’t need to go to medical school to be a biomedical engineer… If that was what you were asking. Also the job prospects for biomedical engineers are fruitful and only expected to grow in coming years.</p>
<p>I would suggest you post this thread in a different type of forum as here you will just get the “bind leading blind” type of responses: people who have no experience in bioengineering telling other people who have no experience in the field. (Just as this one you are about to read is…)</p>
<p>If you would like some good answers from people who went through this process, you can search these forums for people who went through the bioengineering path.</p>
<p>Summary of My Reading: Bio-E is the newest field that is growing fast, but it also has a very high unemployment rate compared to its engineering counterparts. It is difficult to get a job straight out of undergrad because you will be competing with people who have a MASTERS in bioengineering…which will then force YOU to go to grad school for Bio-E. From their, I do not know how competitive it is to get a well paying job.</p>
<p>You can go to medical school through Bio-E but you have to work extra hard. Engineering majors are harder than other majors so your GPA will be lower. GPA + MCAT are two integral parts of a medical school application and if your GPA is below 3.5, your chances of getting into a medical school are low. You will be a Bio-E major competing against Anthropology, English, Political Science majors which are generally MUCH easier (no offense to anyone in those majors) so you can see how much harder you will have to work.</p>
<p>Of course, do not take anything I say without validating it yourself, as this information is just a collection of things I read online.</p>
<p>I was a BME major, but transferred.</p>
<p>the problem with the BME premed curriculum is they cut a lot of the important engineering classes out so you could take premedical classes. The department knows this. I believe it was the Dean who told us this during spop. Later that day, I transferred to chemical engineering. </p>
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You go to medical school to become a doctor. </p>
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This is second hand knowledge, but I’ll relay what I’ve heard. You should probably check this information against better sources.
Anyway, a large problem with BME was it’s multi-disciplinary nature. for example, EE majors take about a year long class on signals (fourier transforms, laplace transforms, etc) while BMEs take a 1 quarter condensed version. Not even a jack of all trades… more like a 7 of all trades.
It sounded like it was a better decision to be a MechE or EE and take some biology/BME courses on top rather then be a BME.</p>