DocumentCode
2966054
Title
Understanding rehabilitation engineering
Author
Youdin, M. ; Sturm, R. ; Youdin, A.
fYear
1988
fDate
10-11 Mar 1988
Firstpage
158
Lastpage
160
Abstract
The authors discuss the present status of the rehabilitation engineer and provide suggestions on how to increase interest in the field. The suggestions include: (1) introduction of formal undergraduate and graduate training programs; (2) establishment of professional qualification and certification criteria; (3) offering malpractice insurance to individual rehabilitation engineers; (4) more employment opportunity in hospitals for rehabilitation engineers; and (5) extension of malpractice insurance and modification of malpractice and product liability laws to cover the modification of available equipment by rehabilitation engineers
Keywords
biomedical engineering; patient treatment; reviews; certification criteria; equipment modification; graduate training programs; malpractice insurance; product liability laws; professional qualification criteria; rehabilitation engineering; undergraduate training systems; Accidents; Biomedical engineering; Dictionaries; Drives; Educational institutions; Injuries; Motion control; Psychology; Strips; Wire;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioengineering Conference, 1988., Proceedings of the 1988 Fourteenth Annual Northeast
Conference_Location
Durham, NH
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NEBC.1988.19372
Filename
19372
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