Careers

Career Description

The Air Force operates medical facilities around the world from level 1 trauma centers to remote field clinics. No matter where the facility is, it has the all the equipment necessary to treat our Airmen, and if something breaks, an Air Force Biomedical Equipment specialist is there to fix it. You won't just learn how to replace parts; you'll learn how to repair components and circuit boards because when you're in the middle of nowhere, you can't send out for parts, especially when lives are on the line.

Career Tasks

• Install, inspect, repair and modify biomedical equipment and support systems
• Knowledge in clinical applications, operation, inspection and maintenance of approximately 40 different medical devices and systems
• Use equipment such as dental operatory systems, steam sterilizers, electrocardiographs, defibrillators, physiological monitors, anesthesia systems, ventilators, clinical chemistry analyzers, fixed and mobile x-ray systems, field support equipment and computers
• Knowledge of advanced principles in electronics, pneumatics, hydraulics, mechanics and other physical sciences as it applies to medical technology
• Perform preventive maintenance and safety inspections, mechanical and electronic troubleshooting to component-level and job-related administrative actions

Relevant Interests & Skills

• Mechanics
• Mathematics
• Health and Medicine
• Electronics
• Maintenance and Repair
• Problem-solving

Training

After eight-and-a-half weeks of Basic Military Training, every Airman goes to technical training to learn their career. Here's the basic information about Biomedical Equipment technical training:

School location: Ft. Sam Houston [TX]

Length of course: 207 days

College degree earned: Healthcare Management

College credits earned: 79