Biomedical engineering graduate · Core track · Resident engineer
One semester as a resident engineer in Medical City Hospital: learn the core devices from physiology to failure, and leave with a portfolio you can show in an interview.
For: Final-year students and new graduates, and the universities and colleges that teach them.
The arc · 14 weeks, plus a Foundations week 0 at the easy level · Resident engineer
What you'll be able to do
The story
BMEssentia Medical City Hospital, 400 beds. You are this semester's resident engineer in the clinical engineering department.
“A hospital does not own devices, it owns a fleet that is born, used, maintained, failed, investigated and retired. On day one I want you to see that whole life, because every later week is one stage of it.”
Inside the track
The real screens: My track, a step with your mentor, a simulation, your skills map and the certificate.
The arc
Each week is one working shift: learn, see inside, do, work, think, check, reflect. Open a week to see its real steps.
Your term timetable
Mr Reyes arrives in resus. The cardiac monitor on his bay is the first device you will learn inside out.
You make: Device brief: the bedside cardiac monitor
Mr Reyes' ST segments cannot be read at 02:00. The ward wants the monitors replaced.
You make: Fault hypothesis sheet and the evidence that closed it
Mr Reyes' readings disagree with each other. The ward asks whether the monitor can be trusted.
You make: Nurse explainer: when to doubt SpO2 and NIBP
Bay 2 has three 'faulty' devices from three vendors, all on Mr Reyes.
You make: IEC 62353 test procedure and one signed test record
Mr Reyes' heparin is under-delivering. A second patient on the same floor had a ten-fold overdose.
You make: Incident investigation record: the ten-fold heparin infusion
Mr Reyes is in Bay 3. His ventilator alarms high volume every few hours.
You make: ICU alarm quick-card
Cardioversion fails at the bedside; theatre wants an ESU with a history.
You make: Theatre teaching sheet: return electrodes, with quiz
Mr Reyes' CT has rings through every slice; the radiologist will not report it.
You make: CT artefact atlas page
Mr Reyes' cardiac MRI is postponed while the projectile incident is investigated.
You make: MR safety briefing deck
Mr Reyes' afternoon session starts forty minutes late because his machine is in bypass.
You make: Fault analysis: afternoon conductivity bypasses
Mr Reyes was briefly ventilated on the wrong settings. The family has asked what happened.
You make: Root cause and actions record
Mr Reyes is moving to one of the new ICU bed spaces on Monday, if you sign it off.
You make: Requirements and whole-life cost sheet, and a commissioning checklist
Mr Reyes' bay is one of the three calls. You cannot be in three places.
You make: Night log: every job documented to audit standard
Mr Reyes' journey through the hospital's devices becomes the case you tell at interview.
You make: Interview-ready competency portfolio and presentation
Proof
A step is done when there is evidence: a simulation score, a saved work document, a passed check or a signed observation. Opening a page never ticks anything.
The certificate
It names the track and the level you completed. Your portfolio holds the work behind it.
Choose one device from the semester. Take it apart in the Device Lab and explain it from the physiology it serves to the way it fails, with one real fault traced in a simulation case, its safety tests and its recalls. Deliver it as a ten-minute presentation to an audience of nurses and engineers, recorded.
Evidence it gives: A recorded teaching artefact and a sourced technical file for one device; maps to ABET SO1, SO3 and SO6.
Write up six of the semester's cases as a professional case portfolio, as a resident engineer would hand to a department: each with the situation, the evidence, the decision, the document produced and what changed. At least one fault, one incident, one acceptance and one maintenance decision.
Evidence it gives: Performed evidence across the equipment lifecycle; usable by the department as anonymised teaching cases.
Assemble the evidence for each of the ten track competencies, with one drawing that proves system understanding, and pass a thirty-minute mock interview with a professor, a hospital engineer or an employer.
Evidence it gives: Employability evidence a university can report (outcomes achieved, interview readiness); an employer can read it directly.
Three levels
A baseline check on day one places you, or you choose. The competencies are the same at every level; the support and the pressure change.
Baseline under 50%, or chosen · simulations at Foundation
Worked examples first, then guided practice. Simulations at Foundation with the coach on. Easy-only Device Mastery routes replace two incident cases; the acceptance, incident and boss extras are hidden.
Baseline 50% to 74%, or chosen · simulations at Practitioner
The standard semester: Practitioner difficulty, the incident and acceptance cases from week 3, coach available on request.
Baseline 75% and above, or chosen · simulations at Expert
Independent and interleaved: Expert difficulty, every case, strict thresholds, and a timed boss week.
Ways to get this track
Complete track
$299for 12 months
General Essentia, the Studios and Design are not included. Subscribe within 30 days and what you paid counts toward your plan.
Premium · Pro
$299a year with Premium
Organisation licence
Branches
Each branch keeps the core track's shape and focuses on one area of work. Each is sold on its own as a Deep Dive, and all of them come in the Full family.
Branch · Hospital-Ready Graduate
In six weeks a graduate who finished the core can commission theatre and decontamination equipment, verify neonatal devices, hold a supervised night and a major incident, and present the evidence for a trainee clinical engineer post.
Certificate of Completion: Hospital-Ready Graduate, Clinical Engineering pathway branch
Branch · Hospital-Ready Graduate
In six weeks a graduate who finished the core can take a clinical problem through user needs, risk, human factors and regulation to a design review, explain its value to a surgeon and a buyer, and present a traced design decision to a device company.
Certificate of Completion: Hospital-Ready Graduate, Medtech Industry pathway (R&D, regulatory, sales) branch
FAQ
Anything else, write to the team and we answer directly.
Yes. An organisation's licence includes every track, core and branch, with the Platform, Medical City, Essentia, the App and the dashboard. Your organisation enrols you on the track, and it appears under My track; there is nothing extra to buy.