• Mentors & trainers placed in clients workplace
• Trainees bought to Adelaide
• About Adelaide

Mentors and trainers placed in clients workplace

A cost effective method of training is to place experienced, practising trainers in the clients workplace to work with a group of staff or to run formalised training sessions.

Flinders Biomedical Engineering is experienced at placing individuals or a team of mentors in hospital-based biomedical engineering environments both in Australia and overseas to train less experienced technical staff in the maintenance and management of both clinical and laboratory devices.

• FBE trainers in Malaysia
  Placement of 7 experienced Biomedical Engineering staff from South Australia in Malaysia for 1 year, mentoring and teaching Biomedical Engineers in over 40 Malaysian Hospitals provided in collaboration with ECRI.
• Papua New Guinea 2003, 2005
• Tonga 2002
• Module 1 training in Malaysia
  Modular Biomedical Engineering Training Programme (Pdf 210Kb)

Trainees bought to Adelaide

• Malaysians trained at Flinders
  Twenty-one Malaysian Biomedical Engineering staff were bought to South Australia and trained on the Flinders University Campus and at the Flinders Medical Centre. Written examinations (certified by ECRI), practical assessments and oral presentations were included.
• Hong Kong engineers in Adelaide
  Flinders Biomedical Engineering in collaboration with Flinders University and the Adelaide Queen Elizabeth Hospital Biomedical Engineering group provided equipment management and X-ray training to a group of 6 engineers from a government maintenance department for 4 weeks.

About Adelaide

In Adelaide, students can generally be housed within 1 km of the Flinders campus in a park-like setting, with good public transport available to the city centre and within a few minutes of a large regional shopping centre.  Some students decided on car hire for the duration of their stay, while others used public transport. The Central Market provides an excellent range of food from many countries.

With a five day working week, there is generally time during the weekend for tourist activities around Adelaide and South Australia. Popular visits include the world renowned southern wine regions (1 hour by road), koalas at Cleland Conservation Park, potaroos and platypus at Warrawong Earth Sanctuary and Kangaroo Island with its abundant kangaroos koalas and seals.