BME and MP Education: Current trends in Europe

Workshop Objectives:

To provide a forum for biomedical engineers and medical physicists from Europe to interact and exchange ideas and experience on activities and programs in Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Medical Physics (MP) education.

The Workshop will include 2 sessions with mixed BME and MP presentations and possibly a Poster session. Special emphasis will be given to e-Learning and other new trends of BME and MP education development in Europe. The overall aim is to improve the quality and effectiveness of BME and MP education and training and to foster new methods in this field.

In case you consider to participate in the Workshop, please note that the deadline for a manuscript submission is February 14, 2010. Up to four-pages in English are requested for each presentation, submitted according to the rules published at the above mentioned web-page. Acceptance of abstracts will be notified not later then by 5th March 2010.

Topics:

• Current status and trends of BME and MP Education in Europe
• BME postgraduate courses/programs – new modules and methods
• MP postgraduate courses/programs – new modules and methods
• BME Undergraduate courses - structure of curricula and delivery results
• MP Undergraduate courses - structure of curricula and delivery results
• e-Learning modules and simulations for education and training.

Workshop chairs
Prof. Nicolas Pallikarakis, University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Slavik Tabakov, King’s College London, UK