is far broader than just developing medical devices. This profession is the application of both biological and engineering principles to medicine. This certainly involves the research and development of devices (CT, MEG, EEG, MRI), and materials (e.g. biomarker, antibodies) but it also focuses on a much wider ranger of scientific areas, such as, software and algorithm (e.g., the software can detect and remove human skull from a MRI image), drug discovery, cognitive simulation, prosthetic limbs & artificial organs, tissue engineering, medical robotics, brain surgery (e.g. tissue spectrum analysis) etc.
This is an excellent career / academic path, promising, challenging, and cutting-edge therefore, of course, competitive. Ontario is a tech hub for Biomed Eng., many start-ups are right in this arena and starving for young talents.