title: Updating the biomedical engineering curriculum: Inclusion of Health Technology Assessment subjects.
abstract: This paper describes the work being carried out at Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) in Mexico City with regard to the continuous evaluation and updating of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) curriculum. In particular the courses regarded as part of the BME basic branch are reduced and new sets of elective subjects are proposed in order to bring closer the research work at UAM with the subjects in the BME curriculum. Special emphasis is placed on subjects dealing with Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Health economics, as this branch of the BME discipline is quite promising in Mexico, but there are very few professionals in the field with adequate qualifications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico. fmml@xanum.uam.mx
authors.forename: Fabiola
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martinez Licona
authors.forename: Edmundo Gerardo
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Urbina
authors.forename: Joaquin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Azpiroz-Leehan
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*; D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004470:Economics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000193:education; D008800:Mexico; D011786:Quality Control; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000379:methods*; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods; D014495:Universities