Fellowship
in
AeroMedical Sciences
Modules
The program is divided into 4 modules, spread over a period of 1 year.
Each module of 3-month duration will have:
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Online Modular course study and Specific clinical activites in a competency-based training
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One week per module, of taught program with lectures and workshops. The workshops will be held partly at the airbase and significant part of workshop will be during real flying in our air ambulance.
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We believe, mistakes are always made during flying with patients.It's better to make these mistakes on mannequines than on real patients. All the possible clinical challanges that can arise while in flight, the candidates are exposed to them during their flying session.
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Apart from the clinical skills, the non-technical skills of teamwork, leadership, communication, situational awareness, coping under pressure, thinking on feet, contingency planning, etc are equally essential when activities are done to save a life at 28000 feet in the confines of an aircraft or a turbulent helicopter. These are transferrable skills and attributes, which are designed to help the doctors to, not only use them in aviation medicine, but will make them fearless of any scenario occurring in their area of work within the hospital. The candidates will be taught to follow, standard operating procedures even before they board their first flight. They will be challenged on all their SOPs while flying with their team.
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HEMS is the most challenging of pre-hospital Immediate Medical care activities. The clinical skills will have to be acquired and learnt partly on simulation and partly by competency-based training in hospitals. These skills will acquire a totally new dimension when the candidates would be made to perform them at the roadside and in limited access inside a flying helicopter.
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HEMS in Major Disasters. The HEMS team, maybe the first responders at a remote train disaster. They will be taught, to set up and command make-shift temporary triage and treatment areas. Apart from the clinical skills required to manage the trauma patients, they will be taught to work in cohesion with other emergency services – Fire, Police and Rescue services.
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The faculty during the Taught weeks of the program would be from the one of the best Aeromedical services of the world, UK, Australia, Norway and Germany for each of these 3 weeks which are done in India.
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For the 4th module, the taught week will be in the United Kingdom or Australia. The candidates can give their preference. They will be joining their UK or Australian counterpart HEMS trainees in their intense 1 week induction course. This will be followed by actual HEMS sorties in these countries for a week which will be offered to a few selected candidates. The candidates will return to India after this to sit their final exams and assessments.
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After successful completion of the exams, and submission of a Dissertation, the candidates will be awarded the FAM – Fellowship in Aviation Medicine by ICATT and GHA in affiliation with The Great Western Air Ambulance Service, UK, The Kent Surrey Sussex Air Ambulance Service UK and Grater Sydney Area HEMS, Australia.