Trainees from Kazakhstan, Chad, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Cameroon, and Nigeria will attend the 2010 fall/winter Biomedical Repair Training Program at MediSend, Dallas.

Created in response to the critical worldwide lack of skilled BMETs, the MediSend Biomedical Repair Training Program has helped solve this shortage since 2007 by training and returning 52 BMETs to their home-country hospitals, many of whom are the first such professionals in their country.

The trainees spend six months studying an intensive biomedical technologies curriculum and will graduate with the professional skills to install, repair, and maintain a full range of basic biomedical equipment found in developing country hospitals. Each trainee’s hospital will also receive the MediSend Mobile Biomedical Equipment Test and Repair Kit that meets the specific needs of developing country hospitals and contains more than 4,000 test, repair, and calibration tools and supply items.

Photo caption: Trainees observe a demonstration of an infant phantom with Philips ultrasound machines.

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