I attended a lecture on biomedical engineering after school today given by a lecturer on the course at Kings College London. The course is relatively new at Kings and the entry requirements are AAA - including physics and maths.
I did not know what to expect but my reasons for going were that I knew it would be interesting in terms of science and technology and such fields are likely to play an increasingly important role in the future! I personally am not considering biomedical engineering but know it could be an alternative to medicine if I were to fail to get into medicine more than once..
The course involves four main things:
1.) Computation eg computers which can read scans for tumours based on the shade and resolution of the scan
2.) Software and modelling eg programmes with the ability to track excitation waves in the heart and consequently makes improvements on things such as heart fibrillation and why a defibrillator works
3.) Imaging eg 3D images of areas with a higher metabolic rate than usual likely to be tumours dividing
4.) Robotics and devices eg devices which are able to give doses of radiation to pin point accuracy
All of the areas sound extremely interesting and considering the advancements made in the past 50 years who knows what will be developed in the next 50 years time!? Hopefully a time when we are practicing medicine..
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