Biomedical engineering embodies the spirit of combining disciplines. The engineer''s pragmatic approach to-and appetite for-solving problems is matched by a bounty of technical challenges generated in medical domains. From nanoscale diagnostics to the redesign of systems of health-care delivery, engineers have been connecting advances in basic and applied science with applications that have helped to improve medical care and outcomes. Increasingly, however, integrating these areas of knowledge and application is less individualistic and more of a team sport. Success increasingly relies on a direct focus on practicing and developing collaboration skills in interdisciplinary teams. Such an approach does not fit easily into individual-focused, discipline-based programs. Biomedical engineering has done its fair share of silo busting, but new approaches are needed to inspire interdisciplinary teams to form around challenges in particular areas. Health care offers a wide variety of complex challenges across an array of delivery settings that can call for new interdisciplinary approaches. This was recognized by the deans of the University of Southern California''s (USC''s) Medical and Engineering Schools when they began the planning process, leading to the creation of the Health, Technology, and Engineering (HTE@USC or HTE for short) program. “Health care and technology are changing rapidly, and future physicians and engineers need intellectual tools to stay ahead of this change,” says Carmen A. Puliafito, dean of the Keck School of Medicine. His goal is to train national leaders in the quest for devices and processes to improve health care.
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机译：生物医学工程体现了学科融合的精神。工程师务实的方法和解决问题的意愿与医疗领域产生的大量技术挑战相匹配。从纳米级诊断到医疗服务提供系统的重新设计，工程师一直在将基础科学和应用科学的进步与有助于改善医疗保健和成果的应用联系起来。但是，越来越多地将知识和应用的这些领域整合在一起，变得不那么个人主义，而更像是一项团队运动。成功越来越依赖于在跨学科团队中练习和发展协作技能的直接关注。这种方法不容易适合以个人为中心的，基于学科的计划。生物医学工程已经尽其所能地解决了筒仓破坏问题，但是需要新的方法来激发跨学科团队围绕特定领域的挑战而组建。卫生保健在一系列交付环境中提出了各种各样的复杂挑战，可能需要采用新的跨学科方法。南加州大学医学院和工程学院的院长在开始规划过程时就认识到了这一点，并导致创建了健康，技术和工程学院（HTE @ USC或HTE）简称）程序。凯克医学院院长Carmen A. Puliafito说：“医疗保健和技术正在迅速变化，未来的医生和工程师需要智力工具来保持这种变化的领先地位。”他的目标是训练国家领导人寻找改善医疗保健的设备和程序。
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