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Role-Playing Creates a Valuable Interactive Learning Environment for Biomedical Engineers and Engineering Technologists

There is an ever increasing need for biomedical engineers (BE) and biomedical engineering technologist (BMET) to be able to have greater communication skills and strong technical skills in both industrial and clinical environments. This is exemplified by the increased demand for customer service skills in medical device manufacture’s field engineers and service engineers. To meet these demands in an already crowded set of teaching objectives within a BMET bachelors program, an interactive role-playing approach was taken to maximize the group learning process. Scenarios are created for the students to confront real life difficult situations from varied vantage points. Within this safe environment, difficult questions are answered, conflict resolution is addressed and resolutions through compromise are made. The culminating response by the students was an increased understanding of competing motivations and appreciation of the clinical institutional roles that can affect the decision making process.