Efforts to improve aviation medical examiner performance through continuing medical education and annual performance reports.

Details

• Creators:
  Dille, J. Robert ; Harris, James L.
• Corporate Creators:
  Civil Aeromedical Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Office of Aviation Medicine
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Aviation medicine
  • Physicians
  • Certification
  • Continuing education
  • Errors
  • Training
  • Aviation medicine
  • Aviation medical examiners--Certification
  • Continuing education
  • Aviation medical examiners--Training of
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FAA-AM-84-7 ; DOT/FAA/AM-84/7
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
• Abstract:
  Continuing medical education (CME) serves to maintain or increase the knowledge, interpretive proficiencies, and technical skills that a physician uses in his/her practice of medicine. Resulting improvement in professional performance is frequently difficult to measure, particularly in aerospace medicine, but CME is required for relicensure and/or or medical society membership in 70% of states. ; The Civil Aeromedical Institute first received American Medical Association approval for Category I CME credit for attendance at FAA seminars in January 1973. We began preparing 21-item annual performance reports for each aviation medical examiner (AME) in 1979 to attempt to isolate the causes of, and to reduce, computer rejection of about one-fourth of all medical certification input because of omissions or procedural errors. There was little improvement in error rate through 1982. ; We are presently conducting special sessions and open-book tests for new AME's, lecturing to military flight surgeons, and encouraging Regional Flight Surgeons to review reports of physical examinations from new and frequent-error AME's.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/21268/dot_21268_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 166.46 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection ; FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
• Main Document Checksum:
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