Workshop & Training · UR CEBE
Medical Technology Management (MTM)
Procurement & Maintenance — a Master-level intensive one-week course, delivered by Expertise France-Groupe AFD and CEBE Faculty.
About the Training
The Medical Technology Management (MTM) course is a Master-level intensive programme focused on the procurement and maintenance of medical devices. It is designed for biomedical engineers and technicians, healthcare institution staff, government or health agency decision-makers, and any professional involved in procurement who is already familiar with these topics and looking to deepen their strategic and operational expertise.
Delivered jointly by CEBE faculty and a French team, the training combines presentations, case studies, and a site visit to King Faisal Hospital.
The purpose of this intensive course was to enhance participants' strategic knowledge and operational competencies in medical device procurement processes, advanced maintenance management, and lifecycle optimization to support robust healthcare delivery and medical equipment sustainability across Rwanda.
Objectives
- Master procurement fundamentals, including needs analysis, global costs, tenders, commissioning, disputes, and safety.
- Develop advanced strategies for contractual conditions, upstream technology analysis, and strategic equipment acquisition.
- Strengthen internal and external maintenance frameworks (preventive, conditional, and corrective maintenance).
- Address key economic factors, including asset obsolescence vs. innovation, metrology, and medical device vigilance.
- Facilitate knowledge exchange between local healthcare leads and international biomedical engineering experts.
Outputs
After training:
- Participants possess advanced expertise in managing medical device lifecycles and strategic procurement.
- Standardized methods for organizing internal/external hospital maintenance and quality assurance will be shared.
- Participants are able to evaluate economic models dealing with global asset costs, resource distribution, and equipment obsolescence.
- Inter-institutional collaboration among MoH, RBC-MTD, RMS, and clinical networks have been strengthened.
- Participants receive formal academic validation of acquired knowledge upon successful completion of the course assessment.
Programme Format
Venue
UR CEBE – Regional Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering and eHealth, with a site visit day at King Faisal Hospital, Kigali
Dates & Duration
Tuesday 7 – Friday 10 July 2026
4-Day Master-level Intensive Course
Roles and Responsibilities
- Coordinate the overall programme layout, registration, and academic oversight of the training.
- Provide the training venue, multimedia infrastructure, and academic evaluation coordination.
- Mobilize international experts and support the implementation of the course framework.
- Provide overall logistical support, including catering, transportation, and accommodation for participants, plus coordination facilities and printing of participants' certificates.
- rovide policy guidance, co-facilitate technical modules, and support participant mobilization.
- Participate directly in case studies and strategic roundtable discussions.
Daily Programme
Opening & Introductions — Welcome remarks and a brief introduction of CEBE, welcome remarks from AFD Group, official opening remarks from MOH, and opening remarks from RBC/MTD.
Hospital Technics & Flows — The hospital as a place of technology and processes: modeling, flows, healthcare provision and consequences; hospital fundamentals (water, oxygen, electricity); medical device life cycles.
Procurement Fundamentals — Needs analysis, costs, HR, tenders, commissioning, disputes, training, and safety.
Advanced Procurement — Case Studies & Advanced Questions — Upstream technology management, analysis of needs, costs, and human resources; consultation and calls for tenders; essential conditions to be met; commissioning; disputes; training; safety.
Advanced Procurement (continued) — Strategic procurement, essential contractual conditions, and commissioning.
King Faisal Hospital Visit — Biomedical engineering workshop tour and debrief on maintenance organisation.
Maintenance Fundamentals — Managing installed equipment; organizing internal and external maintenance (preventive, conditional, or corrective); quality assurance; electrical safety; ECME; medical device vigilance; metrology; budget and economic questions; global costs.
Advanced Maintenance — Case Studies — Budget and economic questions, global costs; overall strategic management of equipment for maintenance and contracts; obsolescence vs. innovation; homogeneity; local or regional distribution of human and material resources.
Academic Validation — Assessment and validation of acquired knowledge.
Faculty & Speakers
The programme is delivered jointly by CEBE faculty and a French team of hospital engineers and researchers, with facilitators from MOH, RBC-MTD, and RMS.
CEBE Faculty:
Gerard Rushingabigwi
Associate Professor · Biomedical Master Director
Celestin Twizere
Professor · CEBE Director
French Expert Team:
Celine Condette
Hospital Engineer & UTC Researcher · MS EB Master Director
Prof. Francois Langevin
Emeritus Professor & Researcher · President, FL IH Int.
Laurent Sevestre
Senior Biomedical Engineer · CEO, TheBiomedicalBox
A partnership with facilitators from: Ministry of Health (MOH), RBC-MTD, and RMS — sponsored by Expertise France (Groupe AFD).
Who Attended
- Biomedical engineers or technicians at hospitals and healthcare institutions
- Government or health agency decision-makers
- Any professional involved in the procurement and maintenance of medical devices
Presentations and case studies are intensive and interactive, intended for participants already familiar with these topics.
Training Gallery
Medical Technology Management Training — UR CEBE, Kigali, July 2026.