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Master medical device technology.

The operating ecosystem for biomedical engineering and medtech education.

One platform to learn it. One hospital to practise it. One app to carry it.

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Open any device. Take it apart.

One ecosystem, three parts

Everything medical technology asks of you, in one ecosystem.

Learn it on the Platform. Practise it in Medical City. Carry it on the App.

The BMEssentia globe: Medical City, The Platform and The App as three lit regions joined by lines.

Medical City

The world's first interactive 3D medical device technology universe.

On Windows and Mac.

What it is
A full working hospital to walk. Go up to any device, press E and it opens in the Device Lab, where you take it apart in 3D and work through its own hands-on curriculum.
What it gives you
You can do the job, not only describe it: 511 challenges and 600 story missions drawn from real clinical engineering.
How it connects
The same login. Your results join the same progress record as the Platform.

Included in Premium

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The Platform

The complete learning platform for medical device technology.

In your browser. Nothing to install.

What it is
22 connected courses, a library of 69 devices each broken down in 13 sections, 3,800+ original illustrations, BMEssentials, BMEssence, a private community, a portfolio builder and MedTech AI.
What it gives you
You understand how every device works, and the field around it.
How it connects
What you learn here is what you meet in Medical City. Your progress is on the App.

Included in Platform and Premium

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The App

The Platform, in your pocket.

On iOS and Android.

What it is
The Platform on your phone.
What it gives you
A device, a guide or a set of questions wherever you are.
How it connects
Same login, same progress.

Included in Platform and Premium

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Who it is for

6 audiences. 1 standard of medical device knowledge.

Find yourself below. The devices, the city and the progress record are the same for everyone.

Haemodialysis Unit, BMEssentia Medical City
Haemodialysis Unit
01 / Biomedical and clinical engineering students

Before your first day on the ward.

You will work with devices you have never touched. RESOLVE tells you how each one fails before a patient depends on your knowing. Medical City puts you in the clinical environment before you set foot in a real one.

  • 69 devices, 13 sections each
  • 22 courses mapped to your degree
  • A portfolio that proves your skill
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MRI, opened in the Device Lab, BMEssentia Medical City
MRI, opened in the Device Lab
02 / Working clinical and biomedical engineers

The department runs on what you know.

69 devices. Every fault mode. Every maintenance protocol. Every procurement consideration. One platform that covers the full scope of the job, beyond the technical layer.

  • RESOLVE for every device
  • Preventive maintenance and commissioning
  • Patient safety investigation
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Department readiness, BMEssentia Medical City
Department readiness
03 / Hospital departments

Your team's competency, visible.

Every challenge completed. Every hint used. Every device mastered. The progress dashboard shows where each engineer stands and where the gaps are before they become incidents.

  • Supervisor view of the whole team
  • Competency tracking per device
  • Onboarding in the city, before the ward
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Surgical Robot Showcase, BMEssentia Medical City
Surgical Robot Showcase
04 / Device companies, distributors and field engineers

Your engineers need to earn clinical trust.

A field engineer who understands how their device fits clinical workflows, how it fails and how the hospital procures it is a different kind of asset. Medical City puts your team where your customers work.

  • Device depth that earns a clinician's trust
  • Regulation, tenders, import and export
  • Procurement from the hospital side
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Academy and Simulation Centre, BMEssentia Medical City
Academy and Simulation Centre
05 / Universities and BME programmes

Map the platform to your curriculum.

Each professor runs their own classes. Device content mapped to your programme. Student progress visible to faculty. The professional layer your graduates need, delivered before they leave your department.

  • Classes run by each professor
  • Progress visible to faculty
  • Campus-wide Medical City access
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ICU bed, Intensive Care, BMEssentia Medical City
ICU bed, Intensive Care
06 / Healthcare practitioners

Know the machine at the bedside.

Doctors, medical students, nurses, radiologists, radiographers and anaesthetists use ventilators, anaesthesia machines, infusion pumps, monitors and scanners every shift. Learn how each one works, how it fails and how to use it safely, then find it in Medical City, in the ward, theatre or imaging suite where it belongs.

  • 69 devices, 13 sections each
  • Safe use, alarms and MRI hazards
  • The engineer's language, in plain terms
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What every learner leaves able to do

Eleven competencies. One ecosystem trains them all.

  • Medical City
  • Platform
  • App

  1. Explain any device

    From the physics inside it to what it does for the patient.

    • Platform
    • Medical City
    • App

  2. Find the fault

    Go from symptom to check to cause to fix, in the right order.

    • Platform
    • Medical City

  3. Read and apply the standards

    Know the safety rules behind every device and every room, and work to them.

    • Platform
    • Medical City

  4. Look after the fleet

    Commission new equipment from crate to patient, then keep it safe with planned maintenance.

    • Medical City
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Part 1 of 3

Medical City

The world's first interactive 3D medical device technology universe.

On Windows and Mac.

BMEssentia Medical City, the whole campus at golden hour
The city

Master the engineering. Step into the experience.

A walkable 3D hospital campus. 69 devices · 156 variations in their clinical locations, 200+ animated staff, a day and night cycle. Runs on everyday Windows laptops and on Apple silicon or Intel Macs.

  • Surgical Robot, Device Lab, BMEssentia Medical City
    Surgical Robot, Device Lab
  • Device Pavilion, BMEssentia Medical City
    Device Pavilion
  • CT Showcase, BMEssentia Medical City
    CT Showcase
  • PET/CT, Nuclear Medicine, BMEssentia Medical City
    PET/CT, Nuclear Medicine
Press E at any device

Don't just study the machine. Open it.

Start with the MRI. Explode it, click any part and see what it does, in the real lab engine. Drag to turn it. The same lab opens when you press E in Medical City.

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Every device in the city

69 devices · 156 variations. Every one opens.

Imaging, surgery, therapy and monitoring. Walk up to any of them in Medical City, press E and it opens in the Device Lab.

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Stories. 600 missions, 200 in each

Three careers, played in full.

  • First Day, a Medical City storyStory 1

    First Day

    Day one as a junior clinical engineer, mentored by senior engineer Marcus Chen through 200 missions.

  • The Commission, a Medical City storyStory 2

    The Commission

    As a consultant, plan, procure, install, commission and hand over a new surgical wing in 200 missions.

  • The Investigation, a Medical City storyStory 3

    The Investigation

    Lead an independent investigation into unexplained device incidents. 200 missions, no hints in the final 20.

12 simulations

Build it yourself. Then prove it.

511 challenges drawn from the real work of clinical and biomedical engineering. Each plays at Foundation, Practitioner and Expert level.

  1. Hospital Architect, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    01

    Hospital Architect

    Plan a hospital that works for patients, staff and devices.

  2. Room Builder, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    02

    Room Builder

    Design clinical rooms that pass every standard.

  3. Clinical Engineer Campaign, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    03

    Clinical Engineer Campaign

    Run the work orders of a real engineering department.

  4. Medical Device Mastery, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    04

    Medical Device Mastery

    Prove you understand every device, inside and out.

  5. Equipment Procurement, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    05

    Equipment Procurement

    Buy the right device, not the cheapest one.

  6. Installation and Commissioning, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    06

    Installation and Commissioning

    Take new equipment safely from crate to patient.

  7. Preventive Maintenance, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    07

    Preventive Maintenance

    Keep the fleet safe before anything fails.

  8. Patient Safety Investigator, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    08

    Patient Safety Investigator

    Find what really happened, and stop it happening again.

  9. Hospital Operations Manager, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    09

    Hospital Operations Manager

    Keep a hospital's technology running under pressure.

  10. Medical Technology Detective, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    10

    Medical Technology Detective

    Trace a fault through every clue to its cause.

  11. Biomedical Engineering Design Studio, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    11

    Biomedical Engineering Design Studio

    Design a medical device from need to prototype.

  12. Master Clinical Engineering Challenge, a screen from the Medical City simulation
    12

    Master Clinical Engineering Challenge

    Everything you have learned, under real pressure.

Scenarios are built against the standards the job uses, including HBN and HTM guidance, IEC 60364-7-710 and ISO 14971.

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Download Windows Mac

Included in Premium. Installed in minutes.

  1. 01Choose Premium or a Medical City planOr start with the 7-day free trial: no card, the whole city to walk.
  2. 02Download for Windows or MacYour download appears in your BMEssentia account.
  3. 03Log in with your BMEssentia accountThe licence checks itself. Progress joins the same record as the Platform.
  4. 04Press E at any deviceThe device opens in the Device Lab.

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  • The Device Lab opening one device after another: the MRI, the haemodialysis machine and the surgical robot in 3D
    01Open the Device Lab: every device, ready
  • Walking from the fountain to the Grand Entrance of Medical City at sunset and into the Grand Promenade
    02Walk the campus, from the plaza to the promenade
  • Walking past the reception desk of the Grand Entrance Hall into the Main Atrium and along its gallery
    03Walk the whole hospital

Part 2 of 3

The Platform

The complete learning platform for medical device technology.

In your browser. Nothing to install.

1 platform. 22 courses, 69 devices, 231 guides, 13,000+ questions.

Everything you need to understand medical technology, from the physics of a device to the business around it.

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Courses

22 fully integrated biomedical engineering mastery courses.

Each course builds into the next, linking physiology to devices, physics to imaging, signals to diagnosis, electronics to control, and theory to clinical reality.

  • 22 courses
  • Each one builds on the last
  • Progress saved lesson by lesson
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Course map8/22 courses shown
  1. Course 1:

    Therapeutic Devices

    How pacemakers, pumps and ventilators treat the body.

    In Progress

  2. Course 2:

    Medical Imaging Physics

    The physics behind X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI.

    Start Course

  3. Course 3:

    Device Design

    Turn a clinical need into a safe, working medical device.

    In Progress

  4. Course 4:

    Medical Imaging

    How each scanner builds a picture of the inside of the body.

    In Progress

  1. Course 5:

    Neuro-Engineering

    Interfaces that read and stimulate the nervous system.

    In Progress

  2. Course 6:

    Prosthetic Devices

    Artificial limbs that restore movement and independence.

    In Progress

  3. Course 7:

    Rehabilitation Engineering

    Technology that helps patients regain function.

    In Progress

  4. Course 8:

    MRI Physics

    Spins, fields and the Larmor frequency behind MRI.

    In Progress

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Device Library

Every device, from the physics to the patient.

69 medical devices, each broken down in the same 13 sections, from the physics inside it to the ethics around it. Learn to read one and you can read them all.

  • 13 sections per device
  • Illustrated at every step
  • The same structure every time
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Every device page13 sections
  1. Overview
  2. Operations
  3. Importance
  4. Physics
  5. Features
  6. Applications
  7. Physiology
  8. Safety
  9. Advancements
  10. In Research
  11. Logistics
  12. Alternatives
  13. Ethical

The same order on all 69 devices, from the physics inside it to the ethics around it.

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Custom Illustrations

3,800+ illustrations. Every one drawn for this.

Nothing here is a stock image from a textbook. Every illustration was made from scratch to show how a device behaves: what happens when a setting changes, what fails first and why it matters to the patient. Here are 60 of them, six at a time: open any one to see it large.

  • See how devices really work
  • One image in place of pages of text
  • Open any one to see it large
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1 / 10, illustrations 1 to 6 of 60

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BMEssentials

Learn to think like a senior engineer.

31 modules, 31 presentations and 31 playbooks in 4 phases that train how you reason, not what you memorise: how to diagnose, how to decide and how to see a job through. Every module comes as a video, a presentation and a playbook you can use the same day.

  • 31 video modules
  • 31 presentations
  • 31 playbooks
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A BMEssentials video module: the founder on camera beside the module slides
Video
A BMEssentials presentation slide: the one-year biomedical skill stack
Presentation
A BMEssentials playbook page: Forced Action, fix one broken topic in the next 72 hours
Playbook

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BMEssence

Everything the degree leaves out.

231 guides on the working side of the field: how devices are sold, distributed, protected and regulated, and how to build a career around them.

  • Device Intelligence series
  • Career Architecture series
  • Business Mastery and Cognitive Intelligence series
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Inside BMEssence

  • The MRI Engineering Breakdown: How Spin, Magnetism and Radio Waves Build an Image of Your Body. A BMEssence guide cover, Device Intelligence series.
    Device Intelligence

    The MRI Engineering Breakdown

    How Spin, Magnetism and Radio Waves Build an Image of Your Body

    19 pages
  • The BME Salary Stack: How Compensation Actually Compounds From $65K to $200K+ and the Exact Decisions That Drive Each Jump. A BMEssence guide cover, Career Architecture series.
    Career Architecture

    The BME Salary Stack

    How Compensation Actually Compounds From $65K to $200K+ and the Exact Decisions That Drive Each Jump

    19 pages
  • The Art of Selling Medical Devices: How to Explain a $500K Device to a Surgeon Who Has Four Minutes. A BMEssence guide cover, Business Mastery series.
    Business Mastery

    The Art of Selling Medical Devices

    How to Explain a $500K Device to a Surgeon Who Has Four Minutes

    16 pages
  • Why Biomedical Engineering Feels So Much Harder Than It Is: Five Difficulty Sources, Three Cognitive Load Types, and the Protocols That Resolve Each. A BMEssence guide cover, Cognitive Intelligence series.
    Cognitive Intelligence

    Why Biomedical Engineering Feels So Much Harder Than It Is

    Five Difficulty Sources, Three Cognitive Load Types, and the Protocols That Resolve Each

    21 pages

231 guides across 5 series

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Business Mastery

Expand Your Expertise Series.

Three specialised mastery tracks that turn technical engineers into decision-makers inside hospitals, MedTech companies and global markets.

  1. Course 1: Financial Literacy for BME

    Hospital budgets and VC funding decisions. Learn to read P&Ls, build ROI models and speak the language CFOs use.

  2. Course 2: The Art of Selling for BME

    Learn to translate technical specs into business value and close hospital deals.

  3. Course 3: The Medical Device Import-Export Blueprint

    Learn to navigate customs, regulations and international distribution.

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MedTech AI

A senior engineer, on call.

An assistant built only for biomedical engineering and medtech. Ask it about a device, a fault or a concept and it answers from the field, not from the whole internet.

  • Built for biomedical engineering and medtech
  • Ask about a device, a fault or a concept
  • Answers from the field
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MedTech AIAnswer
Clot alarm on a haemodialysis machine. Where do I look first?
Check the venous pressure trend first. A rising trend with a clot alarm points to the line, not the pump.

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Private Community

What You Gain from the BMEssentia Network.

A private community for biomedical engineering and medtech. Ask a question, share what you are working on and build a network with students, engineers and tutors.

  • Ask a question
  • Share what you are working on
  • Students, engineers and tutors
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  • Build a Visible Engineering Portfolio

    Showcase completed certifications, work experience, research and applied projects. Your work isn't buried in a PDF, it's structured and seen.

  • Career Access & Visibility

    Connect directly with engineers, hiring managers, and founders inside MedTech. Credibility compounds when the right people see your thinking.

  • Mentorship in Context

    Ask real device questions. Get CV feedback. Learn how engineers 5-10 years ahead actually make decisions under pressure.

  • Collaborative System Learning

    Study in structured groups. Break down devices together. Build shared clarity instead of isolated knowledge.

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Portfolio Builder

Connect, Collaborate, and Unlock Your Potential. The Network Every Medical Sector Professional Needs.

Join a thriving network where collaboration and connection take centre stage. Share certifications, showcase research, celebrate milestones with peers who understand your field.

  • Devices you know
  • Courses you finished
  • Skills you have proved
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An example profile in the App: photo, title, skills and expertise, experience, education and certificates
Example profile in the App
Example profilePortfolio Builder
Example profile photoAdd Friends

Steven Madres

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About

Implant design engineer working on patient-specific orthopaedic implants, from CT data to the finished device.

Skills

  • Patient-specific implants
  • CAD
  • Biocompatibility
  • Design controls

Professional Experience

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  • Implant Design EngineerHelixis Medical, full-timeJan 2021 to Oct 2025, Toronto
  • Biomedical Engineering AssociateDevice design team, full-timeJun 2012 to Dec 2020, London

Education

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  • Duke UniversityBiomedical Engineering2006 to 2010
  • Johns Hopkins UniversityMasters in Bioengineering2010 to 2012

Certificates

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Awards & Achievements

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Every certificate you earn on BMEssentia lands here, ready to share.

An example profile in the Portfolio Builder: profile card, experience and education, certificates and awards.

The Platform

The complete learning platform for medical device technology.

In your browser. Nothing to install.

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The App

The Platform, in your pocket.

On iOS and Android.

iOS and Android

The Platform on your phone. Look up a device before a lab, a shift or a client visit. Answer questions on the way in. Your progress follows you everywhere.

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Included in Platform and Premium. Same login, same progress.

The App home screen: Featured Courses and Expand Your Expertise
The App Device Library: surgical robots, MRI, PET scanner and CT, each with an Explore button
A course lesson in the App: the key components of the haemodialysis system, with its illustration
The BMEssentia globe with The Platform, Medical City and The App lit and joined by lines.

One ecosystem

Three parts. One ecosystem.

  1. Meet a device in Medical City. Press E and it opens in the Device Lab.

  2. Learn it in depth on the Platform, from the physics to the patient.

  3. Pick it up again on the App, wherever you are.

  4. One login. Everything you do counts toward one record, which a professor or supervisor can also see.

What we believe

The people behind medical devices deserve more than a textbook.

Every scan.Every operation.Every hour on life support.

Each one runs on a medical device, and on someone who understands it. Those people were taught from slides and manuals. Not any more.

BMEssentia gives them the medical devices themselves, a hospital to use them in and a way to prove what they know.

For institutions

3 divisions. The full ecosystem for every seat.

Contracts priced by organisation size, region and term, with a proposal within 48 hours of your demo.

  • BMEssentia.

    Campus

    Universities and academic programmes

    The entire biomedical engineering curriculum in one platform. The 69 devices your students will meet in their first job. Courses mapped to your programme. The professional layer no degree finds time to cover.

    • BME students
    • Faculty and programme leads

    Each professor runs their own classes.

  • BMEssentia.

    Resolve

    Hospital engineering departments and the clinical staff who use the devices

    How each device fails. In what order to diagnose it. What the symptom is telling you. With the procurement, commissioning and patient safety dimensions alongside it, because your department handles all of it.

    • Clinical engineers and supervisors
    • Clinical staff who use the devices

    Every supervisor sees the whole team.

  • BMEssentia.

    MedTech

    Device companies, distributors and service organisations

    The devices your teams sell, service and support, at the depth that earns a clinician's trust. Regulation, procurement, tenders, import and export included, because your teams navigate all of it.

    • Field service engineers
    • Sales and application specialists

    One team, one view.

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See it with your own team or cohort.

Tell us who you are and we will set up a demo. A proposal follows within 48 hours of it.

Founding partner rates available for the first institutions in each region.

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Where this takes you

Picture your first day.
Every device already makes sense.

This is the engineer BMEssentia builds. Biomedical engineering students, clinical engineers and device teams arrive here the same way.

Intensive Care, Medical City
Intensive Care, Medical City
Day one

You have met every machine before.

You have opened all 69 devices before: the physics, the mechanism, the components, the clinical use and the way each one fails.

Neonatal Intensive Care, Medical City
Neonatal Intensive Care, Medical City
On the ward

The clinicians trust you.

When a device alarms, you know what the symptom is telling you and in what order to check it, because you have diagnosed it with RESOLVE before a patient depended on it.

Surgical Robot Showcase, Medical City
Surgical Robot Showcase, Medical City
In the industry

The device companies want you on their team.

You understand how a device fits the clinical workflow, how it fails and how the hospital procures it. That is the engineer who earns a clinician's trust in the field.

Robotic Theatre, Medical City
Robotic Theatre, Medical City
Leading

You run the department.

Procurement, installation, commissioning, maintenance and patient safety are already yours. You have planned a hospital, handed over a surgical wing and led an investigation.

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Pricing

Platform, Premium or Institutional. Clear plans.

Premium gives you the full Platform and Medical City from $24.92 a month on the annual plan.

Platform

BMEssentia

  • The Platform: included
  • Medical City: not included
  • The App: included
$14.92/ month

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  • Device Library: 69 devices, 13 sections each
  • 22 courses mapped to your curriculum
  • 231 guides across all device categories
  • 13,000+ practice questions
  • RESOLVE troubleshooting for every device
  • Progress dashboard and competency tracking
  • Web and mobile access
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Platform + Medical City

BMEssentia Premium

  • The Platform: included
  • Medical City: included
  • The App: included
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Includes the Medical City download for Windows and Mac.

Everything in BMEssentia, plus:

  • Device Lab: 69 devices · 156 variations in interactive 3D
  • BMEssentia Medical City for Windows and Mac
  • The full walkable 3D hospital campus
  • 12 simulations, 511 challenges, each at three levels
  • 600 story missions across 3 pathways
Institutional

BMEssentia Institutional

  • The Platform: included
  • Medical City: included
  • The App: included

Full Platform and Medical City access for every user, priced by organisation size, region and contract length.

  • One dashboard for the whole team or cohort
  • Progress across the Platform and Medical City
  • Proposal within 48 hours of your demo
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  • Six audiences: biomedical and clinical engineering students, working clinical and biomedical engineers, hospital departments, device companies and their field engineers, universities and BME programmes, and healthcare practitioners: doctors, medical students, nurses, radiologists, radiographers and anaesthetists who use medical devices every day. Everyone learns the same 69 devices, in the same city, on the same progress record.

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Master medical device technology.

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