Aerospace Medicine
Core Content Areas
40% – The Flight Environment
30% – Clinical Aerospace Medicine
20% – Operational Aerospace Medicine
10% – Management and Administration
I. The Flight Environment
A. The Biosphere
B. Theory of flight
- Aviation – fixed and rotary wing
- Spaceflight
C. Physiology
- Respiratory
- Cardiovascular
- Spatial orientation
- Bioacoustics
- Visual
D. Gravitational effects
- High performance
- Microgravity
E. Pressure effects
- Hypobaric
- Hyperbaric
F. Other physical effects
- Shock and vibration
- Thermal
- Radiation
- Toxicology
G. Human factors
- Human-machine interface
- Human performance
H. Aerospace systems
- Vehicles
- Ground support
- Simulators
- Remotely Piloted Vehicles
- Escape Mechanisms
- Medical Systems
II. Clinical Aerospace Medicine
A. Fitness for duty and return to work
- Cardiology
- Pulmonary
- Ophthalmology
- Otolaryngology
- Psychology and psychiatry
- Neurology
- Other Medical/Surgical conditions
B. Health Maintenance
- Wellness
- Self-imposed stress
III. Operational Aerospace Medicine
A. Air and space operations
- Military
- Civil aviation
- Space
B. Selection and retention
- Medical standards
- Aeromedical evaluations
- Longitudinal surveillance
C. Aeromedical transportation
D. Survival, search and rescue
- Crash worthiness
- Search and rescue systems
- Airport disaster management
E. Mishap Investigation
- Site activities
- Forensic considerations
- Accident rate and data
F. Travel medicine
IV. Management and Administration
A. Regulations
- Military
- Civil
- International
B. Organizations
- ICAO
- WHO
- DOT/FAA
- NASA
- NTSB
C. History