Medical Issues in Aviation

Understand the principles underlying health, safety and performance of those involved in aviation: practitioners, employees, and passengers.

The lead course facilitator is Dr. Claude Thibeault (Past President of the Aerospace Medical Association, Past President of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine, Past President of the Airline Medical Directors Association and many more and currently Medical Advisor, IATA).


How You Will Benefit

  • Understand the principles underlying health, safety and performance of those involved in aviation: practitioners, employees, and passengers

Designed for

  • Medical representatives (doctors, nurses) of airlines
  • In-flight and Flight Operations representatives

Course Content

  • Medical Incidents on board (first aid, medical kits, communicable diseases, etc.
  • Passenger fitness to fly (medical clearances, review of altitude physiology)
  • Passenger Health (Travelers' Thrombosis, Aircraft Drinking Water, Passengers with Reduced Mobility, Cabin Air Quality, etc.)
  • Role and Responsibilities of an airline medical department
  • Occupational health for aircrew
  • Crew Medical Standards (ICAO, certification, interaction between airlines and Civil Aviation Authorities, case studies)
  • For medical incidents on board: defibrillator, ground medical support
  • For passenger fitness to fly: case studies
  • For passenger health: avian fly, disinsection
  • For Occupational Health for aircrew: sleep and circadian rhythm, cosmic radiations, medications, travel medicine

Classroom Courses

June 15 - June 19, 2009
Montreal, CanadaClass No : 15955
Please note that if no sessions are listed above, then this course is currently not scheduled for delivery in our IATA classrooms.

All IATA courses can be delivered to your offices and tailored to your organisation's reality and needs. If you have a group of 15 or more individuals for this course, please contact us at training.ymq@iata.org and we will provide you with information about bringing this course to your offices at a time convenient for you and your staff.

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