Medical Equipment Repair Technician
Earn Your Associate Degree Of Applied Science in Medical Equipment Repair Technology
MedQuest College is no longer enrolling students in the Medical Equipment Repair Technician program.
What is a Medical Equipment Repair Technician?
A Medical Equipment Repair Technician is a huge contributor to successful patient outcomes in healthcare by ensuring all life-saving medical equipment is working properly and efficiently at their most critical moment.
What does a Medical Equipment Repair Technician do?
Technicians are responsible for performing maintenance and safety checks, keeping repair logs, calibrating equipment, and testing parts on machines such as electronic wheelchairs, surgical robots and nuclear imaging. They are also responsible for reviewing training manuals and teaching medical professionals how to operate equipment.
Medical Equipment Repair Technician’s Responsibilities
• Surgical Equipment: Lights, Chairs, Tables, Microscopes, instruments, etc.
• Infant Machines: Warmers, Fetal and Patient Monitors, Pediatric Exam Tables, Incubators, and more
• C-Arm Fluoroscopy Machines: Super C, Mobile, MiniView, etc.
• Anesthesia Machines both large stationary and portable
• Patient Monitoring: Vital Signs, Oximeter, Clinical Information Center, Anesthesia Gas, Handheld and Multi-Parameter
• Ultrasound Machines including cardiac, portable, color doppler and advanced digital
• Endoscopy: cameras, light sources, video processors, insufflators, colonoscopes, electrosurgical units
Where does a Medical Equipment Repair Technician work?
The opportunity for life experiences, training, knowledge and travel are almost limitless for technicians. Locally and even on a national level the need for highly skilled and trained Medical Equipment Repair Technician is growing rapidly! Below are facilities utilizing technicians:
• Hospitals
• Medical Centers
• Private Practice Groups
• Clinics
• Wholesale Suppliers
• Electronic Repair Shops
Meet the Program Director, Dr. Marwa Ismail
Medical Equipment Repair Technician Course Outline
A&P225 Anatomy & Physiology II
BMD120 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
BMD130 Biomedical Equipment and Instrumentation I
BMD150 Fundamentals of Programming
BMD160 Safety in Healthcare
BMD230 Biomedical Equipment and Instrumentation II
BMD260 Biomedical Equipment Technology Externship I
BMD270 Biomedical Equipment Technology Externship II
BMD280 Biomedical Equipment Technology Externship III
BMD290 CBAT Certification Review
BUS115 Career Development
ELC100 Fundamentals of Electronics I
ELC120 Digital Electronics I
ELC200 Fundamentals of Electronics II
ELC210 Solid States II
ELC220 Digital Electronics II
ENC100 English Composition
ENC101 Interpersonal Communications
MAT100 College Technical Math I
MAT110 College Technical Math II
MED100 Medical Terminology
MED260 Healthcare Law & Ethics
PHY125 College Physics
PSY100 Principles of Psychology
Certified Associate in Biomedical Technology (CBAT) Credential
During the course of the program, all Medical Equipment Repair Technicians will receive the education and training needed to prepare for the Certified Associate in Biomedical Technology (CBAT) credential. Each student will be guided through the scheduling process of this exam by the Program Director as well as provide additional training prior to the date of the exam. The program’s tuition does include a one-time exam fee.
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Externship and Career Services at MedQuest College
Externship
Prior to graduation, students are required to complete an externship under the guidance of area experts. During this externship, students will refine the skills learned on campus as well as work directly with working and nonworking machines for real-life experiences.
Career Services
Our Career Services Director provides assistance to graduating students and alumni that include instruction in resume writing, preparation of cover letters, interviewing techniques and networking skills. The college provides job placement assistance for its graduates. Alumni in good standing may continue to use any and all placement resources indefinitely at no charge.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE
The Medical Equipment Repair Technician program offered by MedQuest College aims at providing a solid foundation in both biomedical sciences and electronics to prepare graduates to enter the biomedical field as technical professionals who can maintain, calibrate, modify, troubleshoot, and repair the biomedical equipment. As a biomedical equipment technician, it is of the highest priority to maintain the medical equipment fully functioning and always maintained. Manufacturers also hire biomedical technicians to build and final-test biomedical electronic equipment. The curriculum is widely applications-oriented in the areas of electronics and bioinstrumentation, offering a cooperative education externship in facilities that have a wide variety of medical equipment.
The Medical Equipment Repair Technology program offered at MedQuest College offers flexible schedules for our students. You can choose blended learning, which consists of completing courses in both online and on-campus settings, or you can choose to complete the program 100% on-campus.
MedQuest College has provided high-quality instruction to students in Kentucky and Indiana since 1999. By providing Southern Indiana, Louisville and Lexington Kentucky, and surrounding areas with quality programs we are able to proudly say that MedQuest College has successfully employed thousands of graduates in the medical fields. Our campuses are located in Louisville Ky and Lexington KY. We are institutionally accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES), a nationally recognized accrediting body.
