Author: John Noblitt

Over the past several years there has been quite a bit of conversation about replenishing the ranks in this career field. Many industry leaders such as AAMI have highlighted this growing concern and AAMI has made YouTube videos highlighting this career field. As many of the early biomed professionals have begun to retire and many planning to retire in the next several years this is a very valid concern for the HTM career field. I have written in the past about the lack of students coming into the field and have asked each of you to help by steering any potential candidates to a reputable school for training. This training of the new ranks, however, will be much different this time around – as it always is.

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In a previous issue I wrote an article entitled “Buyer Beware” and it focused on a college offering a “degree” in biomedical technology which lasted six months. They started a new class every Monday. That was shocking enough for me but this educational outlet also had an “optional” hands-on component for the biomedical degree. I can’t imagine preparing a student for this career field in only six months and not having a hands-on component, let alone an actual internship to put into practice what is learned in the classroom.

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Last week, while traveling home from work I received a text message with an attachment from a former student. The text read, “Thought you might be interested in this.” Once I had time to view the attachment, which was a pop up ad from his Facebook page, I was fairly shocked.

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Within the last two years I changed jobs. I had the privilege to start my biomed career 20 years ago as a field service technician at a local X-ray repair shop. It almost ruined my career before it ever got started. But, luckily, I got the opportunity to move to an in-house shop at a hospital. This provided the resources and support to solidify my decision to become a biomed.

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