The aim of this chapter is to show the history of biomedical engineering education in Poland, from the beginning till today with special task to underline the role of modern information technology. This story is not very old, just around one century, that may be classified into four basic periods related to important historic events. First are the beginnings before the second world war. Then post-war recovery and development of fundamentals, this is the period from 1946 till around 1970. The third period, till the change of political system in Poland in “nineties”, may be called formation of multicentre knowledge based education. Finally, from ca 1995, development of modern biomedical engineering education supported by “explosion” of information technologies. Each period is here characterised. Many data are given based on personal memory as the author was privileged to know almost all pioneers involved in biomedical engineering education in Poland and participated in many important events/moments of institutions involved in development of modern biomedical engineering.
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- Category
- Publikacja monograficzna
- Type
- rozdział, artykuł w książce - dziele zbiorowym /podręczniku w języku o zasięgu międzynarodowym
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2021
