Lately, I have been referring to myself as a Healthcare Clinical Technology Professional, perhaps Healthcare Clinical Engineering Professional is better.

I like that in Canada that they are utilizing “Technologist” in their CE departments since I think it adds an air of respect that Technician is sorely missing in my humble opinion.

Today CONFEA/CREA system has eighty years and Biomedical Engineering became subject to supervision since 2008, just as Technologists in Biomedical Systems (Healthcare Technologists) and Biomedical Equipment Technicians are

Also monitored by the Council. So Biomedical Engineering is officially monitored just for six years. As any other engineer, they must be registered with the board and each service provided or contract, must be reported to the Board through a document called ART (Technical Responsibility Annotation).

Here, we must be licensed but I have similar concerns as described in your article. We have to work closer too.

By the other hand, Biomedical Engineering is so new once the first group was graduated in 2005 at UNIVAP University. In spite of the fact there are, at least, 5 universities that graduates biomedical engineering, there are not enough professionals yet and, healthcare system needs the support of others engineers, technologists and technicians.

To end my comments, the Issue No. 29 – Year IX – December 2014 of CONFEA/CREA magazine that is celebrating 80 years of the Council, it can be seen that one of 2013 achievements was the creation of a Public Hearing to discuss as the text says, the invasion of foreign engineers and foreign engineering companies in Brazil. We are moving forward I believe, but we still have a lot of work to do.