Are Aerospace Medical Services Trained In Trauma?

NorCal · January 8, 2012

Does anyone here have the skinny on the Usa Air Forcefulness'due south Aerospace Medical Service? Information technology appears like a jack-of-all- trades/ master of none career field. What blazon of certifications, if any, practise you receive that interpret over to the civilian world? I was looking into Aeromedical Evacuation, but information technology appears that is a specialty reserved for those with several years of experience inside the Aerospace Medical Service . . .

mycrofft

My knowledge is aged but probably yet partly true.

Aerospace Medicine is the body of practise centered around the health and operability and condom of humans in the flight surroundings. That makes it a catchall, but they turn their noses up at usa groundlings.

Despite what they tell y'all at the recruiters, actually footling of what you practise in the mil transfers over to noncombatant credits. Information technology does give you a grounding in the subjects, and that is what appears well in your resume. If any schools are offered, you lot take them and excel. If they offering to ship y'all to or pay for a civilian school, leap on it. Showtime corresponding with civilian employers (and schools) early on to see who values the mil experience and what they actually want in the mode of classes/prereqs, than start taking them off-duty.

The majority of what they (used to ) do is run clinics, give shots, and do flight physicals for aviators and other air coiffure members. A small selection of them used to actually practice aeromedical transport. A smaller bunch did barometric medicine (pressure chambers).

NorCal · Jan 8, 2012

I'm looking for a reserve opportunity in the Air Force that volition get me my EMT-B and compliment my ultimate goal ob eventually obtaining my EMT-P and going into flight medic. I'm already prior service and I finished my bachelors degree last year. If I was a few years younger, I'd enlist as a PJ or go after a commission. Unfortunately, I'thou a little to one-time for that now. I'm essentially trying to acquire from my past military feel as an MP/ Firearms Teacher; it was fun, just it doesn't interpret into anything on the civilian side of the house.

BedpanCommando

I was an Aerospace Medical Service Craftsman for almost 23 years. (4 on flight condition every bit an Aeromedical Evac Tech.) I retired a yr agone. Some of what Mycrofft said was true. Very little of the preparation translates directly into a civilian job. That being said it does help. You lot volition get your EMT-B. (Or whatever in that location calling information technology now.) That is a requirement to exist in the career field.

If you are looking into an Aeromedical Evacuation slot in the reserves yous will first go to the 4N0X1 basic form at Brook Regular army Medical Heart in San Antonio. Then to the Aeromedical Evacuation Grade at Wright Patterson AFB, OH. If you don't become an AE slot don't worry a regular 4N does a lot of things in the infirmary. From piece of work on the many in patient wards to running almost of the clinics like Family Exercise, Emergency Dept, Pediatrics, OB/GYN, Internal Med, and of course the dreaded Flight Medicine. (Those are the ones Mycrofft must accept met with the whole nose affair) 99% of 4Ns never put on a flight accommodate or are ever on flight status.

As for being a Jack of all trades, Yep I have used those very same words to depict what a 4N does. But a primary of some may be more than appropriate.

Skillful Luck
(Tac Evac Brings em Back)

mycrofft

OP, if you are in Central CA, your reserve unit would exist at Travis AFB out of Brooks Medical Center. Maybe contact a Reserve recruiter to get-go (recollect, a recruiter is a salesman, don't sign anything), and so maybe see if you can wangle a way to talk to a 4N0 if you tin can to become the muddied version.

NorCal · Jan 9, 2012

Thanks for the input, I'm having a difficult time with this i . . . I have half-dozen years of military experience and two degrees under my belt, yet my job prospects are slim. I'g only trying to make the near out of my next motility so I'chiliad moving frontward instead of backwards. . .

kale Poor

yo.. how'd that programme work out? im looking for jobs in the civilian job with my expired military certs while i wait to become to med school... im like, FML

NomadicMedic

yo.. how'd that plan work out? im looking for jobs in the civilian job with my expired military certs while i expect to go to med schoolhouse... im like, FML

Well, since that post is five years old… And the affiche hasn't been dorsum in a while (since June of '13), I don't think you lot're going to get an respond