AEMB 2012 Broader Impacts Educational Sessions at BMES, October 24-27, 2012, Atlanta, GA

1261495默里在过去的十年里，美国生物工程学位课程的数量激增。有超过70个ABET认证的本科生物医学工程/生物工程课程，预计在未来几年内将超过100个。同样，医疗保健领域的新设备和新技术的范围也急剧增加。虽然生物医学工程师设计和实施的产品和服务旨在改善健康和福祉，但它们也可能造成一系列社会和伦理困境，特别是对于前沿技术。作为一个例子，潜在的困难源于可植入或可穿戴传感器，这些传感器可以存储和传输紧急护理提供者可以电子访问的个人健康信息。然而，同样的信息也可能被保险公司或身份窃贼访问。一个可以拯救人们生命的设备也可能成为伤害他们的门户。此外，公共政策对创新的资金和监管它的法律也有影响，因此，学生将受益于公共政策辩论的过程。生物医学工程（BME）的学生今天只有几年的时间才能成为推动新生物医学技术发展的过程的一部分。这一代的工程师必须有能力识别他们的发明可能引起的潜在社会和道德问题。同样重要的是，他们要了解公共政策如何影响他们的工作，以及如何有效地与决策者和公众接触，以确保为所有人的利益优化创新条件。大多数BME学术课程仅将医疗器械的伦理和社会影响作为选定课程或课程的组成部分，很少有课程涉及公共政策。2005年，AEMB决定填补空白，在生物医学工程学会（BMES）年会期间为学生举办了一次密集的教育伦理会议，这是一次领先的全国性会议。今天，AEMB在BMES年会上赞助了三个会议，包括道德，公共政策和社会影响。这笔拨款将用于（1）为学生提供参加会议和这三节会议的交通赠款，以及（2）制作每节会议的专业录像，供学校和学生团体免费使用。获得这些赠款的学生将参加所有三个会议。回国后，他们将利用培训班的录像和其他材料，为学校的培训班提供便利。参加这些会议的其他学生领袖和教师也将被要求在他们的校园举办会议。此外，AEMB将联系每个美国BME项目主席，要求他们使用会议材料。这应该促进广泛使用的内容。智力优点这套会议是一个新的模式，扩大知识和技能，这些重要的主题，并提高学生参与他们的专业。希望其他学会能够认识到这种方法的优点，并将其作为模板，让其他学科的本科生和研究生也能遇到同样的问题。此外，这种通过演讲和讨论相结合来教育学生的方法被认为是一种有效的教育方法。学生和教师的参与者将被鼓励使用这种方法时，他们运行自己的会议，从而促进在BME教育中积极学习方法的使用增加。更广泛的影响预计，学生参与者将定期考虑道德，公共政策和社会影响的问题，在设备和技术的设计和实施的过程中，这将进一步提高技术提供给社会。当他们把这些知识带到他们的社区时，他们也将提高更广泛的社会对良好和不良工程设计和实践的重要后果的认识。AEMB领导层鼓励所有教师顾问通过申请FASEB MARC导师/学生旅行赠款，将来自代表性不足群体的学生带到会议和我们的会议。此外，由于许多地方AEMB学生领袖是妇女，这一旅行补助金计划将确保妇女的代表性。此外，每节课的专业录制视频和其他材料将免费提供，以便任何学校或学生组织都可以向学生展示他们的内容。潜在的，这可以达到学生在每一个BME计划在该国。

1261495MurrayThe number of bioengineering degree programs in the United States has skyrocketed over the past decade. There are more than 70 ABET accredited undergraduate Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering programs, and this is expected to exceed 100 within the next few years. Likewise, the range of new devices and technologies in the healthcare field has increased dramatically. While the products and services that Biomedical Engineers design and implement are intended to improve health and well-being, they can also create a range of social and ethical dilemmas, especially for leading-edge technologies. As an example, potential difficulties stem from implantable or wearable sensors that can store and transmit personal health information which emergency care providers could electronically access. Yet, this same information might also be accessed by insurance companies or identity thieves. A device that could save people's lives could also be the gateway to harm them. Additionally, public policy has an effect on the funding for innovation and on the laws that regulate it. Thus, students would benefit from exposure to the process of the public policy debate.Biomedical Engineering (BME) students today are only a few years away from becoming a part of the process driving the development of new biomedical technologies. It is imperative that this generation of engineers be well-equipped to identify potential social and ethical issues that may arise from their inventions. It is equally important that they learn how public policy impacts their work and how to effectively engage with policy makers and the general public to ensure that conditions for innovation are optimized for the benefit of all. Most BME academic programs include ethics and social impact of medical devices only as integrated components in a selected course or courses, and few programs cover public policy. In 2005, AEMB determined to fill in the gaps by hosting an intensive educational ethics session for students during the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, a leading national conference. Today, AEMB sponsors three sessions at the BMES Annual Meeting, including ethics, public policy and societal impacts. Funding from this grant will be used to (1) provide matching travel grants to students to attend the conference and these three sessions, and (2) to produce professional video recordings of each session for free use by schools and student groups. Students receiving these grants will participate in all three sessions. After they return home, they will facilitate training sessions at their schools using videos and other materials from these sessions. Other student leaders and faculty that attend these sessions will be asked to host sessions at their campuses, as well. Furthermore, AEMB will contact each US BME program chair to request that they use the session materials. This should promote wide use of the content.Intellectual MeritThis set of sessions is a new model for broadening the knowledge and skills of these important topics and for improving student involvement in their profession. Other societies will hopefully recognize the merits of this approach and use it as a template for exposing undergraduate and graduate students in other disciplines to these same problems. Furthermore, this method of educating students via a combination of presentations and discussions is known to be an effective educational approach. The students and faculty participants will be encouraged to use this approach when they run their own sessions and thus promote the increased use of active learning methods in BME education.Broader ImpactsIt is expected that student participants will routinely consider ethics, public policy, and societal impact issues during the process of device and technology design and implementation; this will further improve technologies available to society. As they bring this knowledge to their communities they will also increase awareness in the wider society of the important consequences of both good and poor engineering design and practice. AEMB leadership is encouraging all faculty advisors to bring students from underrepresented groups to the conference and our session by applying for FASEB MARC Mentor/Student travel grants. Also, because many local AEMB student leaders are women, this travel grant program will ensure that women are well-represented. Additionally, the professionally recorded videos of each session and other materials will be available free of charge so that any school or student organization can present their content to students. Potentially, this can reach students in every BME program in the country.