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Medical device sales is a hot sales category.  Because it's hot, you're going to have some competition to beat to land the job.  But never fear–the medical sales recruiter has a strategy for you! 1.  Know what's going on in the market with medical device companies. First, you have to understand the job–the sales process involved in these types of sales, how hospitals buy medical technology, how to deal with doctors, and how health care reform is going to change the game. Next, know what companies you're looking at:  I have a list of the Top 100 Medical Companies that you can sign up to receive for free, with a section devoted to medical device companies.  Also, consider looking at the financial world's picks for best health care stocks to give you another perspective. Finally, look online for general information about what's going on in medical devices today.  There's a lot of churn in the job market for medical device sales professionals in 2010, but still great jobs to be had.  Check out PHC Consulting's medical device jobs page to see some of what's available. 2.  Know what you're going to .. more»

Throughout history, military medical personnel have been involved in providing care for their comrades in arms, often at the expense of their own lives. Researchers in the US are working on a project that could replace army medics on a battlefield with robotic surgeons and nurses. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon research arm who turns science fiction fantasy into military reality. DARPA conducts high-risk military research and in the process develops amazing medical technology. At their 3-day DARPA tech conference, they announced the upcoming deployment of the first portable, self-contained, remote battlefield medic/surgeon Trauma Pod robotic system by 2009. Surgical robotics was initially conceived by DARPA as remote battlefront or space surgical robots and this technology is now widely available in the DaVinci surgical robots. Brett Giroir, director of the research agency’s Defense Sciences Office also announced that the system, called Trauma Pod, has successfully “treated” a mannequin during a test, with no complications. Brendan Visser, a surgeon at Stanford University in California who helped develop the Trauma Pod, described it as: “Three separate robots dance over the top of the patient .. more»