Biomedical Engineering Personal Statement

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Shiny devices with flashy lights ruled over sci-fi fantasies during the years of my childhood. Later, these devices left me in awe as I slowly came to understand the physics behind its making and the impact electronics plays in our life. On the other hand, I always admired and respected doctors as they practiced a near divine profession. Over time, when electronics greeted medicine, the healthcare industry was accelerated to perform tremendous feats. Inventions such as bionic arms, prosthetic eye, CT, and others have had me stupefied.

It is my dream to be part of a team that would pioneer in rehabilitation engineering. Ever since I had discovered my passion in biomedical engineering, I wanted to extend my skills into helping physically challenged or differently abled people by creating assist devices for them. My final year project was also based on developing such an assist device. Of the years spent in studying the course, I believe I have a liking to rehabilitation engineering and robotics.

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When I read that [university name] had a course in MSc [programme name] with a specialisation in [specialisation name], I was sure that it was the course that
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It was a crash course that taught me all I needed to know about MRI including its simple physics, the structure and placement of an MRI and the modules of exchanging data from different images. I also attended a four-day industrial training at [institution name] where I learnt the industry structure and the process involved in designing and making of infant care equipment. I also attended hospital training at [institution name] and [institution name], both in Chennai for two weeks and one week respectively. The hospital training taught me about the hospital hierarchy and how a technical fault is being tackled by the

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