I had a really nice, really long post that I wrote but my hotel’s wireless is shite and kicked me off for no reason and it went bye-bye (how come sometimes if a post gets eaten I can hit back and it’s still there in the dialogue box, but other times it’s not?)
At any rate, I’ll summarize what I said:
I was a biomedical engineering major and I currently work as a biomedical technician (which is really more like a specialized form of electronic repairman.)
Biomed is a very, VERY broad field. Some aspects (bioinformatics, imaging) can benefit from CS courses, but those are really more tangentially related to biomed engineering. Real biomed engineering includes things like biomechanics, tissue engineering, biomaterials, etc…
If you do want to go into one of those fields, I’d say don’t bother with CS. I had one CS course and an embedded control course in my undergrad days, and I haven’t really used them sense, certainly not in my job, and nor would I even if I had the job I really want (which would be my undergrad specialty, biomechanics.)
To really get into a career in biomed, you’ll most likely need a master’s. If you already have a science or engineering BS, then you can directly apply to grad school, assuming you have a least some biology/physiology, and perhaps some physics and chemistry too. If you don’t have an undergrad degree, or if you have one in a very unrelated discipline, you’ll have to either get a new BS in an engineering or science (and might as well make it biomed,) or take a lot of courses outside a degree program in biology/physiology, physics, math, and probably some intro engineering courses.
Feel free to ask me anything about biomedical engineering education, careers, or whatever else and I;; try to answer as best I can.