| Title | Efforts to improve aviation medical examiner performance through continuing medical education and annual performance reports. |
|---|---|
| Record ID | 39487 |
| Personal Name Creator |
Dille, J. Robert; Harris, James L. |
| Corporate Creator | Civil Aeromedical Institute |
| Corporate Contributor |
United States. Office of Aviation Medicine |
| Publisher | Civil Aerospace Medical Institute |
| Publication Date | 19840000 |
| Language | English |
| 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. |
| Rosap ID | dot:21268 |
| Rosap URL | https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/21268 |
| TRT Terms | Aviation medicine; Physicians; Certification; Continuing education; Errors; Training |
| General Subjects | Aviation medicine; Aviation medical examiners--Certification; Continuing education; Aviation medical examiners--Training of |
| Classification | NTL - AVIATION - AVIATION; NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - Education |
| Geographical Coverage |
United States |
| Report Number | FAA-AM-84-7; DOT/FAA/AM-84/7 |
| Resource type | Tech Report |
| URL | https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/39000/39400/39487/AM84-07.pdf |
| Format | |
| Database | NTL Digital Repository |