title: From the foundation act to the corporate culture of a BME teaching institute.
abstract: This paper describes the concept and application of the organizational culture of a BME teaching institute, based on the specificity of biomedical engineering. Selected values and behavioral patterns typical for this profession were endorsed to reinforce the mutual cooperation and understanding of students, university staff and employers as partners in the educational process. Besides of building a professional pride and reputation of the teaching institute, the corporate culture is proved to be useful in imposing of the attitudes required in future career of the biomedical engineer as a partner of a medic in his efforts aimed at the wellness and safety of the patient. Five years since the foundation of the Multidisciplinary School of engineering In Biomedicine we still do not have a quantitative measure of the educational outcome quality, nevertheless the presented idea may be very useful and worth sharing with all BME educators.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Humanities, AGH University of Science and Technology, 8A Gramatyka Str. 30-071 Kraków, Poland. ewaa@agh.edu.pl
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Augustyniak
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Augustyniak
mesh_terms: D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014495:Universities