The BiomedRx Institute
Before I start this article, let’s go over some basic definitions. Biomedical Equipment Maintenance Technicians are known in their own career field as BMETs (I know, the acronym doesn’t quite fit). Having said that, it is a known fact that good BMETs are hard to find.
My career as a BMET began over forty years ago during my tenure of service in the United States Air Force. US Air Force BMETs are considered the “gold standard” in the field of biomedical equipment maintenance. This is for very solid reasons. Only the Department of defense has the resources to purchase several hospitals’ worth of medical equipment simply for the purpose of training maintenance technicians. This equipment is repeatedly broken and repaired, through the installation of known malfunctions or ‘bugs’ into the circuitry and/or mechanics of the device in question.
While some civilian schools do a pretty good job at teaching the theoretical aspects of the man-instrument relationship, they all fall short of providing the hands-on training necessary to consider someone a journeyman-level technician in this field.
Our Mission
The BiomedRx Institute is established to provide US-military-standard education and training in biomedical equipment maintenance and healthcare technology management.
We accomplish this through a combination of classroom, workshop, online, and on-site training experiences for our students.
Our students are provided a direct path into the fields associated with healthcare technology management.
“As a BMET, you must be able to communicate intelligently with physicians as well as engineers. It requires a unique combination of intelligences that requires a lifetime of continuous learning. You have to love to learn in order to be a good BMET.” — Devin Lockett
During the early years of BiomedRx, we overcame this obstacle by providing our on-site biomedical equipment maintenance training at the client’s hospital location. In this manner we were able to incorporate performing maintenance on the equipment in use at the client hospitals into our training program.
The goal of the BiomedRx Institute is to provide the same top-notch level of education and training in healthcare technology management as that provided to the Department of Defense biomedical equipment maintenance technicians. We aspire to distinguish ourselves as the only civilian institute that maintains this level of quality.
Right now, we are recruiting members of our team with experience in technical institute accreditation and management. We are also seeking instructors and administrative staff members with applicable experience. You can discreetly submit your resume here, or on the BiomedRx Institute website.
BMET Training the Air Force way!
At the BiomedRx Institute I set out to establish the same quality of BMET training that I experienced in the United States Air Force.
It is not enough to simply teach the theory behind medical equipment operation and troubleshooting. Students have to have real world hands-on experience performing repairs and preventive maintenance inspections.
