Is this included in my organisation's licence?

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.

Can I take it on my own?

Yes, as a Deep Dive for $149 one-time, or in the Hospital-Ready Graduate Full family for $399. One payment opens it for 12 months under My track: the track's lessons, labs, Medical City scenarios, the certificate and the track mentor (100 questions per track, more with credit top-ups). General Essentia, the Studios and Design are not included. Where a week asks for your organisation's own documents, you work from BMEssentia's sample hospital documents instead, and observed sign-offs become self-assessed with evidence.

A branch is a short focus within the Hospital-Ready Graduate track, sold on its own as a Deep Dive and in the Full family: the same shift structure, built on the core's competencies, with the device families and cases of one area of work.

Which level should I choose?

Easy, Medium or Hard. A short baseline check on day one places you, or you can choose. Easy starts with worked examples and the simulation coach; Hard is independent, interleaved and timed. The same competencies are assessed at every level.

What do I get at the end?

The BMEssentia Certificate of Completion: Hospital-Ready Graduate, Medtech Industry pathway (R&D, regulatory, sales) branch, naming the track and the level you completed, and a portfolio of the real work documents you made along the way.

How much time does it take?

6 weeks, about 3.5 hours a week, in items of a few minutes to about half an hour.

Which languages is it in?

Essentia answers and explains in English, Arabic and Chinese. The course lessons and the Device Lab are in English, and every track page is also in Arabic.

Hospital-Ready GraduateMedtech Industry pathway

Branch · From the ward to the company

Hospital-Ready Graduate:Medtech Industry pathway

From the ward to the company: design controls, risk, regulation and how devices are sold.

For: University BME departments and programmes with industry placements; device companies' graduate programmes

Before you start: The Hospital-Ready Graduate core track, or its baseline check at Medium or above

Start free: week 1 of a track Book a demo for your team

Your mentor, a character in the trackDr Amira HaddadHead of Clinical Engineering

Length: 6 weeks
Time: About 3.5 hours a week
Levels: Easy, Medium, Hard
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
On your own: $149, 12 months

Hospital-Ready Graduate: Medtech Industry pathway: Device Lab, prosthetic limb — Device Lab · prosthetic limb

The arc · 6 weeks · From the ward to the company

What you'll be able to do

The job, done properly.

Write user needs and testable design inputs and start a risk file
Plan formative and summative usability work
Classify a device and its software and plan the evidence
Present clinical and financial value with sourced claims
Present a traced design decision at a design review and an interview

The story

You move from Medical City Hospital's clinical engineering floor to the R&D, regulatory and clinical teams of a device company that works with the hospital's clinicians on four projects.

Dr Amira HaddadHead of Clinical Engineering · your mentor (a character in the track)

“A feature request is not a user need. Keep the diagnostic question narrow, write needs before features, and start the risk file on day one, because every later decision has to trace back to both.”

Inside the track

What you actually use, every week.

The real screens: My track, a step with your mentor, a simulation, your skills map and the certificate.

**A step with your mentor in the Device Lab**The step names what to look at on the real device, with hints that never give the answer away.Shown: ECG with Dr Amira Haddad, this track's mentor

**A simulation**Real hospital work in Medical City, scored and debriefed, at your level.

**Your skills map**This track's own competencies, from your baseline to mastery. They move only on evidence.Shown: a sample learner's progress

**The certificate**A Certificate of Completion in the track's colours, with the work behind it.Shown: a sample for Arjun Mehta, a fictional learner

The arc

6 weeks, one running case.

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

Week 1From a clinician's problem to a design input
Week 2The error the device made easy
Week 3Accurate for whom?
Week 4Clinical value and the sale
Week 5The algorithm at night (boss week)
Week 6The capstone: the industry offer

Week 1From a clinician's problem to a design input4 h
The 14-day ECG patch: from the neurologist's problem to design inputs.
- DoDesign Studio · Fourteen Days (14-day ambulatory ECG patch)20 min
- See insideDevice Lab 39 · ECG: the continuous five-electrode monitoring configuration10 min
- WorkDesign input and first risk sheet: 14-day ECG patch20 min
- LearnDevice Design ch1 · Overview of Medical Device Development15 min
- + 10 more steps
You make: Design input and first risk sheet
Week 2The error the device made easy3.3 h
The PCA interface redesign.
- DoDesign Studio · Ten Times Too Much (PCA programming interface)20 min
- See insideDevice Lab 56 · Syringe pump: the recognition and force sensing10 min
- WorkFormative usability test plan: PCA interface20 min
- LearnDevice Design ch6 · Usability Testing and Iteration15 min
- + 10 more steps
You make: Formative usability test plan
Week 3Accurate for whom?5.3 h
The equitable spot-check oximeter: evidence and the regulatory path.
- DoDesign Studio · Every Skin (spot-check pulse oximeter)20 min
- See insideDevice Lab 52 · Pulse Oximeter: show that the shunt fraction does not move with pigment10 min
- WorkRegulatory strategy note: equitable oximeter20 min
- LearnDevice Design ch7 · FDA Regulations and CE Marking15 min
- + 12 more steps
You make: Regulatory strategy note
Week 4Clinical value and the sale2.6 h
Your company's monitors in the surgical wing tender.
- DoProcurement · Patient Monitoring Network (from the buyer's chair)20 min
- See insideDevice Lab 38 · Cardiac Monitor: chest pain with ST elevation10 min
- WorkValue case and objection map15 min
- LearnClinical Engineering ch3 · Evaluating Clinical and Financial Value in New Acquisitions15 min
- + 9 more steps
You make: Value case and objection map
Week 5The algorithm at night (boss week)3.8 h
The closed-loop insulin system at the design review board.
- DoDesign Studio · The Algorithm at Night (automated insulin delivery)20 min
- See insideDevice Lab 27 · Insulin Pump: the outlet resistance has risen a thousandfold10 min
- WorkDesign review presentation: closed-loop insulin20 min
- LearnDevice Library · Insulin Pump: Safety (the whole section)15 min
- + 8 more steps
You make: Design review presentation
Week 6The capstone: the industry offer2.7 h
Your interview at a device company.
- WorkApplication, CV lines and six-month plan20 min
- LearnBMEssentials · The Biomedical Career Path Diagnostic: R&D, Clinical or MedTech Sales (first 20 minutes)20 min
- ThinkBMEssence · Career Architecture 2: The BME Career Path Map15 min
- CheckWarm-up: retrieval from earlier weeks (spaced)8 min
- + 7 more steps
You make: Capstone and application

Proof

Only evidence counts.

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.

Before and afterThe same baseline check on day one and in the final week, scored per competency.
Mastery, not attendanceEach competency has a mastery threshold. Below it, the track routes you to the named remediation items and a re-check; a week cannot be ticked complete by opening items alone.
The audit packYour weekly work documents and capstones, ready for a supervisor, an employer or an inspector.

The certificate

BMEssentia Certificate of Completion: Hospital-Ready Graduate, Medtech Industry pathway (R&D, regulatory, sales) branch

It names the track and the level you completed. Your portfolio holds the work behind it.

All 6 weeks' required items done at the learner's level
At least 5 of 6 competencies mastered
Final check at or above the level's pass mark
Capstone at 3 or above on every criterion, signed off by the manager or professor (institutions) or AI-assisted rubric review (individuals)

A design history slice for one device

Take one Design Studio project (or your own) from clinical problem to design review: user needs, design inputs, hazards and controls, usability plan, verification plan, and the review presentation.

Evidence it gives: A design history slice a company or professor can assess.

A regulatory and evidence strategy

For one device, write the regulatory strategy: class and rule in the US and EU, pathway, clinical evidence plan with subgroups, software class, and post-market surveillance.

Evidence it gives: Regulatory reasoning evidence.

Industry application portfolio

Your application for a device company graduate role: a chosen path, a traced design decision, a value case, and your requirement-to-evidence table, presented to a panel.

Evidence it gives: Employability evidence for industry roles.

Three levels

Easy, Medium or Hard.

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.

Easy

Baseline under 50%, or chosen · simulations at Foundation

Worked examples first; Starter-tier support; the incident case and the second capstone design hidden.

Medium

Baseline 50% to 74%, or chosen · simulations at Practitioner

Practitioner difficulty; the incident case shown.

Hard

Baseline 75% and above, or chosen · simulations at Expert

Expert difficulty; both capstone-tier designs back to back, timed.

Ways to get this track

On your own, with a plan, or with your organisation.

Deep Dive

This Deep Dive

$149for 12 months

The track's lessons, labs and Medical City scenarios
The certificate when you finish
The track mentor: 100 questions for the track, more with credit top-ups
Or the Hospital-Ready Graduate Full family: $399

General Essentia, the Studios and Design are not included. Subscribe within 30 days and what you paid counts toward your plan.

Start free: week 1 of a track

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6 weeks · about 4 hours a week