Biomedical engineering at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital

Biomedical Engineering offers exciting career prospects in South Africa and abroad for students with an engineering or physical science background. The Biomedical Engineering Department resides in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and is attached to the Groote Schuur Group of Hospitals and is therefore ideally placed for teaching, research and direct patient care. The department aims to apply concepts and techniques of engineering to patient care and medical research and to equip the next generation of Biomedical Engineers and Scientists in Southern Africa. Departmental activities often involve abstract theory or advanced technology, but our guiding precept is that the purpose of the health care team, of which the biomedical engineer is a member, is to relieve suffering and improve quality of life. The department is essentially a clinically oriented teaching centre with involvement in research and development across the whole spectrum of Health Care - Preventive, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Rehabilitative. Biomedical Engineering offers exciting career prospects in South Africa and abroad for students with an engineering or physical science background. The Biomedical Engineering Department resides in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and is attached to the Groote Schuur Group of Hospitals and is therefore ideally placed for teaching, research and direct patient care. The department aims to apply concepts and techniques of engineering to patient care and medical research and equip the next generation of Biomedical Engineers and Scientists in Southern Africa. Our guiding precept is that the purpose of the health care team, of which the biomedical engineer is a member, is to relieve suffering and improve quality of life. The department is essentially a clinically oriented teaching center with involvement in research and development across the whole spectrum of Health Care - Preventive, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, Rehabilitative.