Membership of an affiliated society constitutes Federation membership, including the reduced membership rate for the IFMBE Journal: Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, and for conferences for which a reduced rate is applicable.
Benefits of becoming IFMBE member to the affiliated Society:
- International networking
- Representation in IFMBE governing bodies
- Delegates at the IFMBE General Assembly
- Inclusion in the activities of IFMBE Divisions, Committees and Working Groups
- Inclusion into activities of the global international organizations like WHO, UNESCO, IFEO, ILO etc.
- Increasing visibility and promoting activities of affiliated BME Society through IFMBE
- Publication of Proceedings of International and National conferences organized by affiliated societies in the IFMBE Proceedings Series (WoS indexed) for free
- Support to Awards programs for young researchers and early career scientists
- Availability of nominations of distinguished members of the affiliated societies for numerous IFMBE awards
Benefits to individual members of the IFMBE member Society
- Free access to IFMBE publications:
– Journal Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing –MBEC,
– IUPESM journal Health and Technology,
– IFMBE Proceedings Series,
– IFMBE News and
– another four BME related journals from Springerlink)
- Reduced registration fees to IFMBE co-sponsored conferences and conferences in collaboration with IFMBE including World Congress for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
- Participation in IFMBE Awards program, especially for young researchers and early career scientists
- Participation to Travel Fellowships
- Inclusion to International networks in BME related fields