flight MD??

[premedprepa]

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since most "air ambulances" employee only nurses and EMTs, theoretically, if a doctor got their emt, could they be a transport emt? even though they have an MD license? working as a transport doctor would be a great experience, but I don't know of anywhere that hires MDs as transport doctors??

 

[CyrilFiggis]

What is your actual question?

 

[Suess]

 

[candbgirl]

There are EM residencies that include flight medicine training. Those hospitals employ doctors for transport.

 

[Tenk]

Pretty much any EM doc can fly after obtaining some flight certificationS and training. We don’t need to be a paramedic. I mean... cmon...

That being said, there have been numerous studies that show pretty much no difference between the two so why pay for a Ferrari when a Ford escort will get you there just as easily?

I’ve flown a few times during residency. It’s a lot of fun but I wouldn’t do it for a profession. It’s one of the highest risk occupations in the country and the pay is not great. Also the hours kind of suck and you’re usually on for 24 hours and may not do anything during that time. I mean it would be far better to just work in the ED and then spend money buying helicopter rides on blue bird days in exotic locations. I once did a helicopter tour on Kauai and it was probably 100 times more fun than running life flight taxi runs.

 

[Bonne Nuit]

I’ve flown a few times during residency. It’s a lot of fun but I wouldn’t do it for a profession. It’s one of the highest risk occupations in the country and the pay is not great.

What makes it so high risk? Do the aircraft crash a lot? I don’t hear about lots of air ambulance crashes on the news or whatever, so I’m just curious.

 

[Tenk]

What makes it so high risk? Do the aircraft crash a lot? I don’t hear about lots of air ambulance crashes on the news or whatever, so I’m just curious.

They crash enough that for it being such a rare job, the risk of mortality far exceeds most other civilian jobs.