BME2000: Biomedical Engineering in the Clinical Environment

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Use this guide as well as the CEAS Library & Health Sciences Library websites as starting points for your research.  This guide points to selected biomedical engineering and related resources, while the library websites point you to much more.

Guide Contents

Identify a suitable medical device for your research project

A. Identify the clinical need

B. What constraints affected the design of the equipment?

C. How does the device work, based on relevant engineering principles?

D. Identify the patent associated with your device

E. Did the device require FDA approval?  Describe the process.

F. Describe the process or steps in the corporate product development from concept to final production

“Peer Reviewed” or “Refereed” Articles :

• A process that research journals use to ensure good scholarship. 
• Articles submitted to a peer reviewed journal are sent to other scholars in the same field (author’s peers).
• Peer reviewers provide opinion on: Quality of the scholarship Appropriateness for the journal

Non- Peer Reviewed Publications

• Examples: magazines like Car & Driver, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping
• Rely on the judgement of the editors to determine if the article is accurate, relevant, and meets the standards of the publication

Most Library Databases include both peer reviewed and non- peer-reviewed articles.  Some databases such as Pubmed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science focus exclusively on peer-reviewed publications.

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