Biomedical Engineering:It is the subsidiary branch of engineering, which is very vast and hence there large number of Job opportunities for a Biomedical Engineer.
A biomedical engineer has to work With Doctors and for Doctors.In most cases a biomedical engineer works in a Hospital.
But BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING IN INDIA has Completely different Scenarios Compared to developed Nations Like US,Germany,Denmark,Canada etc.
Biomedical Engineer is Doctor for Medical Devices and Equipments i.e Biomedical Engineer takes Cares of Medical Equipments like
Ventilator,Anesthesia Machine,Heart Lung,IABP,Cautery,Hemotherm,Incubator and Varieties Equipments Servicing .
Job Profile Basically in INDIA includes :-
1. Service
2.Sales
3.Application Engineer
- Clinical Application engineer
- Product Specialist
-Technical Application engineer
4.Quality Assurance (Management)
5.Marketing & Business Development
6. Research and Development (Very less in India)
Service :- It includes service of medical equipments,Installations,Maintenance-Calibration.
Service Job Profile requires knowledge mostly of Electronics,Circuit,PCB (On Work-bench) ,Clinical knowledge of how equipments is used and Technical aspects etc.
Service- Includes long distance Travelling
Multispeciality hospital includes Variety medical equipments in Operation Theatre,Intensive Care Unit (ICU),Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU),Dialysis,Catherization Laboratry (CATHLAB) and Many Such departments require Medical Equipments .
So,they Maintenance and Calibration and Service is Performed by Biomedical engineers.
Biomedical Equipments includes :-
Heart Lung
Anesthesia
Automatic Syringe Pump
Cautery Machine
Portable Ventilator
Baby incubator
Ct-Scan
Centrifuge
Echo
CATHLAB
Opthalmology- Autorefractrometer
Intra-Aortic Ballon Pump (IABP)
1.Heart Lung Machine
2.C-arm (Fluoroscopy)
3.Dye Injector
4.Defibrillator
5.Intra-Aortic Ballon Pump (IABP)
6.Hemotherm (Heater -Cooler )
7.Anesthesia Machine
8.Ventilator
9.Suction Machine
10.Patient Warmer
11.Infant Baby Warmer
12.Neuromicroscope
13.ECG Machine
14.EEG
15.Trend Mill
16.Pulmonary Function Analyzer
17.Endoscopy System
18.Cautery Machine
19.Patient Monitor
20.CT-scan
21. MRI
22. PET
23.Pathology- Centrifuge,Urine Analyzer,ESR Analyzer,Electrolyte Analyzer etc.
24.Dialysis Machine
25.Opthalmology-Slit Lamp,Autorefractrometer,Tonometery etc.
A Ventilator Machines Service engineers has knowledge working Ventilator Circuit and all most as well as How different components that are in Machine Works like Pneumatic system,Modes,PCB units ,Filter ,Oxygen cell etc.
Same way, An engineer servicing Heart lung machine has knowledge about how machine is used During Surgery and also different components of machine like Roller pump for maintaining Blood pressure,Oxygenator workings as Lungs,Air Blender which Mixing Required Proportion of AIR & Oxygen,Heater Cooler for Maintening Temperature of Patient, Heart and Blood.
Heart Lung Consist of :-
1.Roller Pump
2.Oxygenator (works as lung )
3.Air Blender (For Correct Mixture of air and Oxygen )
4.Hemotherm (For Blood Temperature and Patient Temperature Regulation)
5.Patient Blanket attached with Heater Cooler machine (Hemotherm)
Heart Lung
Oxygenator
Air Blender
Heater Cooler
Application Engineer :- To demonstrate to Doctor/Surgeon how to use Medical equipments.
Biomedical Engineers having Product Knowledge and Technical and Clinical part of How equipments needs to be used ,Provides Training to the Doctors and Nursing Staff.
Application - Includes long distance Travelling.
Cardiac Assist and Technical Parameter Application :-Application engineer role is not restricted only to Training and Demonstration but also in Some Other Division like Cardiac division which includes Implants and Surgeries. For e.g:- if Pacemaker is to be implanted so, for Pacemaker implants Doctor requires Lead Placement at proper Anatomical Position and Best Parameters to be achieved.So , Biomedical engineer working in Company Attends Implant and Assist surgeon for Lead Positioning while ,Seeing Fluorscopic and With the Pacemaker Programmer checking Required Parameters like Sensing,Threshold,Lead Impedance ,Current of Injury etc.
Parameters like :- Current of Injury,Sensing,Threshold,Lead Impedance etc.
Sales Representative :- To Convince Doctor to Buy,Negogiate,Demonstrate etc.
It is quite tough and Requires Field experience in order to Sale Product to Doctor.
Sales- Includes Travelling.
Quality Assurance :- It includes ISO - international Standards and Protocols to be followed.It includes Documentation,regulation as per Standards etc.
Quality assurance - does not include Travelling.
Biomedical Companies in India and Salary :-
Biomedical engineers are not well paid at their initial stages if they are not placed by College campus Placement into Big OEM or Multinational Companies.
PAYSCALE In BIOMEDICAL :- salary in Biomedical depends on kind of Job Profile and Company .
Tier 1 Companies :- Original Manufacturing Companies and Multinational Companies like GE,Drager,Siemens,Philips,Boston Scientific,Medtronic,Abbott,Phoenix,Allenger,Olympus,Karl Storz,Freshnius,Baxter.
Salary :- 22k - 30k (Fresher-2 yrs experience )
Growth - Highest
Time to Time training,Seminars,Conferences, Interaction with Doctors.
MNC includes Indian and Foreign both.
Medical Imaging: GE Healthcare, Siemens, Philips
Cardiac Rhythm Management: Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Boston Scientific
Orthopaedic implants: Johnson & Johnson, Stryker, Zimmer, Biomet, Smith and Nephew
Stents: Abbott (Medtronic and Boston Scientific as well, J&J quit the market a few years ago)
Heart valves: Edwards Lifesciences (St. Jude Medical and Medtronic as well)
Neuromodulation: Medtronic, St. Jude Medical and Boston Scientific
Robotic surgery - Intuitive Surgical
Some names are:
Skanray Healthcare (they acquired L&T Healthcare), Panacea Medical (radiotherapy and imaging), Perfint Healthcare (image guidance for cancer surgery), SMT (stents), Pacetronix (cardiac rhythm management devices and equipment, using expertise provided by US companies), MediVed (cardiac rhythm management), Trivitron Healthcare (patient monitoring and diagnostic equipment), Meditronix Corporation (imaging), Aditya Imaging IT (subsidiary of Sun Pharma, image processing for microscopic imaging).
Salary :- 23,000rs-30,000rs For Fresher
Service engineers :- mostly 23000-27000rs
Application Engineers :- gets more salary like 28000rs-35000rs for fresher or 1yr Experience.
Sales in MNC :- They dont give sales profile to Fresher as they know that ,they dont have work Experience.
once u get Experience and Confidence u can achieve whenever its your choice.
Tier 2 Companies :- Refurbinish Companies
Salary- 10-18K (Medium)
Learning Opportunities -Medium
Mostly, - Service
Tier 3 Companies :- Distributor Base Companies or Private Firms or simply Equipment Suppliers.
Salary - Lowest (8k-12k)
Learning Opportunities is less but if someone is completely new to the field than beneficial .
Sales & Service
Sales is Target based and Work load and Target Pressure is there.
Requires lots of Travelling and Very less sales incentive.
Sales :- They give sales profile to Fresher with Sales Target.
Salary depends on Cities also like Tier 1 Expensive Cities like Bengalore,Chennai,Hyderabad,Delhi & Bombay, one get Minimum 20-22k for Fresher in Hospital and Company.
Job Profiles based Payscale:-
Service - Lowest but still good in MNC and high Job security
In Multinationals like Drager,GE,Siemens one get starting 25k and with 3-7 experience around
60k-80k.
Application Engineer :- Medium
Sales Representative :- Highest = Salary+Incentive
Overall within 5-10 yrs Experience Salary Range :- 60K-120K
Higher Position Like Manager
Regional Manager,Zonal manager etc gets Higher Pay but requires Experience with Sales Target.
SCOPE in India :-
Biomedical in india is in developing phase,so Overall scope is increasing and Also Indian Manufacturing Companies have emerged like Phoenix,Allenger and Skanray,also New Startups came into Market.
Biomedical industry requires Huge development and there is great demand of Medical Devices.
The Present Scenario is our Country is importing almost all Equipments which very Costly.
In terms of Research, In india very less scope.
But, Biomedical is less Competative,so to get into Indian and Foreign MNCs is easy Compared to Other Branches of Engineering.
Compared to Mechanical,Civil and Electrical,which are low in Demand,Biomedical is Emerging very Rapidly.
