Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Michele Follen, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

. The students spend four days learning physicalexamination procedure through lectures and clinical sessions. During the second eight-weekperiod of the internship, students attend morning rotations in internal medicine, pediatrics,obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, intensive care, and the emergency room. Students areassigned to a clinical mentor, and observe their mentor interacting with patients, performingclinical procedures, analyzing test results, and developing treatment plans. Students keep aweekly journal in which they describe their experiences in the clinical rotations. Afternoons inthe latter eight weeks of the internship are spent working on independent research supervised bya faculty mentor. Students write a short proposal at the

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

modify existing course assignments, projects, etc. as the basisfor our review whenever possible.We next identified courses which most clearly required students to demonstrate achievement ofour Program Outcomes. Faculty teaching these courses volunteered to save paper or electroniccopies of all the student work submitted (i.e., work from all students in the class) for something(an assignment, a test question, a project, a report) that the instructor believed – if completedcorrectly – would demonstrate achievement of a designated, relevant Program Outcome.Prior to beginning to write our criteria and rubrics, we decided to keep the rubrics as simple aspossible. At this initial stage we were primarily interested in whether a given sample of student

Conference Session

Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Conrad Zapanta, Pennsylvania State University; Keefe Manning, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

reliability and device testing. Special emphasis was placed on reviewingFDA protocols and applications for prosthetic heart valves and artificial hearts. A series oflectures were also presented on the artificial organ (medical device) industry. These lecturesincluded topics on careers in artificial organs in academia and industry, grant writing, andfunding streams.The remaining lecture portion of the course described different examples of artificial organs,drawing heavily on the concepts introduced previously. These artificial organs includedcirculatory support devices, drug delivery systems, artificial lungs and oxygenators, artificialkidney, pacemakers, neural prostheses, prosthetic heart valves, orthopedic implants, bioartificialorgans (tissue