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24: 177:. Through a three to four year curriculum tailored to each country's needs, EWH works with a local educational institution and Ministry of Health to train BMETs to international standards, train local teachers to carry on the program in the long term, and establish a permanent, accredited BMET training program. 132:
Engineering World Health's signature program is the Summer & January Institutes. These service abroad programs engage university-level science and engineering students to use their skills and knowledge to make a direct impact on hospitals in developing countries. Participants spend three to nine
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In the summer of 2021, EWH offered a free virtual design program for students in the United States, Lebanon and Jordan. The program, titled Virtual Engineering Innovation and Cultural Exchange, was focused on healthcare design in low-resource settings. It was sponsored by the Stevens Initiative, a
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for BMETs, with the goal of facilitating and fostering information exchange among engineers and technicians around the world. This library is a collection of open source books and publications containing information useful for training (BMETs), particularly in the developing countries where EWH is
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challenges. Chapters may also get involved in the EWH Design Competition in which teams of engineering students submit a design directed at the needs of developing country healthcare. The top three teams are selected by an independent panel of judges and are then rewarded with cash prizes, giving
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learning hands-on technical skills and the local language, and then working in local hospitals to install, repair, and maintain medical equipment. Participants also train local staff, empowering them to use and maintain equipment, to create lasting improvements in partner hospitals.
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Engineering World Health has student chapters at 45 universities around the world. These Chapters engage students in activities as design projects for the developing world, biomedical equipment repair and evaluation, and raising awareness of
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The first BMET Training program began in Rwanda, and has since placed trained BMETs in every district in the country. Thanks to further funding from the GE Foundation, EWH has completed a training program
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Since 2004, over 600 participants have repaired almost 5,800 pieces of hospital equipment, worth an estimated US$ 12 million.
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Seeking a sustainable solution to hospital equipment repair, Engineering World Health started a
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and Mohammad Kiani established EWH in Memphis in 2001. In 2004, Dr. Malkin and EWH relocated to
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and turned it over to local leadership, and, as of 2016, is training BMETs in Cambodia,
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As of 2021, the EWH's board of directors is made up of the following:
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EWH's program and funding partners as of August 2022 include:
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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Medical and health organizations based in Tennessee
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Memphis, Tennessee
Clinical engineering
ewh.org
non-profit organization
hospitals
clinics
developing world
medical equipment
Robert Malkin
Duke University
Durham, NC
Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
Nicaragua
Rwanda
Tanzania
Guatemala
Cambodia
Nepal
biomedical equipment technician
GE Foundation
Honduras
Nigeria
Ethiopia
digital library
United States Department of State
Morocco
United Arab Emirates
Aspen Institute
Ethicon

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