Title :
Biomedical engineering & VA rehabilitation research
Abstract :
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) research program enhances patient care through the utilization of a medical school model in which physicians care for patients, teach medical students and residents, and engage in their own research. VA research improves medical care for veterans and the general population, while attracting talented and academically inclined clinicians. The VA health care system provides a superior environment to promptly implement empirically based medical care.
Keywords :
biomedical education; gait analysis; handicapped aids; health care; neuromuscular stimulation; patient care; patient rehabilitation; prosthetics; sensory aids; Department of Veterans Affairs research program; academically inclined clinicians; age-related macular degeneration; biomechanics; biomedical engineering; bladder; bowel function; cognitive aids; communication disorders; empirically based medical care; functional assessment methods; gait; hand function; health care system; medical school model; medical student teaching; muscular coordination; orthotics; patient care; patients; physicians; prosthetics; rehabilitation research; respiratory function; retinal prosthesis; retinitis pigmentosa; sensory aids; skeletal biology; spinal cord injury; standing; therapeutic techniques; Biomedical engineering; Bladder; Career development; Educational institutions; Financial management; Hospitals; Medical services; Neuromuscular stimulation; Prosthetics; Retina;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7612-9
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053337
