PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING THE ENGINEERING PROFESSION’S POSITION - The challenge(s)

• The regulation of biomedical engineers and biomedical engineering recognizes the importance of ensuring the safety and efficacy of medical devices and treatments developed through this field, as well as the need to protect the public from any potential harm. [...] • To safeguard the public and prevent unlicensed individuals in biomedical engineering from performing duties that require a licensed engineer, it is crucial for all stakeholders— the public, engineers, governments, regulators and decision-makers—to comprehend the regulated scope of biomedical engineering and the benefits of its regulation by provincial and territorial engineering licensing bodies. [...] (iii) biomechanics and rehabilitation engineering, Defective hardware and software could lead (iv) biomaterials and tissue engineering, and to direct harm to the patient in the use of the (v) biomedical signal and image processing. [...] The regulation of practice in software engineering provides an biomedical engineering is therefore crucial introductory rationale that addresses the nature for ensuring the safety and efficacy of medical of practice in software engineering, including the devices and associated therapies developed use of software in biomedical devices and their through this field and protecting the public from appl. [...] They • Support the work of provincial and territorial maintain high professional and ethical standards, regulators to enforce the engineering acts establish codes of conduct, and ensure timely, as they pertain to the practice of biomedical transparent, objective, impartial, and fair engineering.