In May 2003, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Surgeon General (SG) called upon the Society of USAF Flight Surgeons to report on the state of the flight surgeon from a perspective external to the traditional chain of command. This survey is the third inquiry aimed at garnering the opinion of medical treatment facility (MTF) commanders on the quality of today's flight surgeons, the level of training of new flight surgeons, and the level of preparation of aerospace medicine specialists who graduate from the Residency in Aerospace Medicine. Overall, MTF commanders appear to approve of flight surgeon oversight of aerospace medicine programs, the Aerospace Medicine Primary (AMP) Course, and the Residency in Aerospace Medicine training program. Negative opinions about the level of training or satisfaction with flight surgeons in general were overwhelmingly due to lack of experience, inadequate manning, and/or lack of base-level mentorship. These results may indicate a frustration with the level of manning and an inability to resource time to provide necessary 'on-the-job' training in the first years out of the AMP. Caution should be used in making large-scale curriculum changes based on the results of one study, as it is only sampling one of the three main stakeholders (the others being flight surgeons and the line units that the flight surgeons support). Per USAF Surgeon General's direction, future 'State of the Flight Surgeon' surveys will be a consolidation of all three stakeholders and presented once every SG cycle. This new format of the survey may give a more complete picture of the state of the flight surgeon.


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    Title :

    Society of U.S. Air Force Surgeons' 2010 State of the Flight Surgeon Survey: The Medical Treatment Facility Commander's Perspective


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2010


    Size :

    44 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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