Title :
Understanding rehabilitation engineering
Author :
Youdin, M. ; Sturm, R. ; Youdin, A.
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;
Conference_Titel :
Bioengineering Conference, 1988., Proceedings of the 1988 Fourteenth Annual Northeast
Conference_Location :
Durham, NH
DOI :
10.1109/NEBC.1988.19372
