Competency information

Details

Perform and document a design feasibility study from a functional specification

Considerations

  • Formal design processes, such as from national or international standards or a recognised model
  • Relevance of literature/commercial product reviews
  • Use and application of design evaluation methods, eg weighted matrices

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome Bring new items of equipment, systems, facilities and protocols into service safely and effectively
# 2 Outcome Specify, design, build and bring into service pieces of equipment, using formal design processes, to be used either (a) in a biomechanical or functional assessment, including validation against current clinical methods, or (b) to meet a specific clinical need for a particular clinical problem, including measurement of performance