How do admissions perceive aspiring astronauts?

[Gandyy]

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It's because I worked in this field specifically when getting my MS. I would be working for NASA right now if that astronaut had not lost her mind in 2007.

What you would do really depends on where you are working. It could be as mundane as simply doing the occasional flight physical (most of the civilians are doing this) to doing flight disaster investigation. Some of the military and NASA aerospace medicine physicians are doing research on how the human body reacts to extreme changes (such as zero g) and finding ways to keep our pilots and astronauts healthy while on their mission and when they come back home. One of the benefits is if you are military, you apparently have to go fly on some of the jets so you can experience what your patients experience. As far as NASA goes, one of their aerospace docs told me it was 90% primary care, 5% pathology, and 5% aerospace specific medicine.

Very interesting stuff. Definitely some to keep an eye out for.

 

[Entropic]

Hey,

I am also interested in aerospace medicine and looking into the clinical responsibilities of a doctor in that field. When you said its 90% primary care, will my patients be mostly astronauts? Or will it also include other, regular people from the community? Thanks.

It's because I worked in this field specifically when getting my MS. I would be working for NASA right now if that astronaut had not lost her mind in 2007.

What you would do really depends on where you are working. It could be as mundane as simply doing the occasional flight physical (most of the civilians are doing this) to doing flight disaster investigation. Some of the military and NASA aerospace medicine physicians are doing research on how the human body reacts to extreme changes (such as zero g) and finding ways to keep our pilots and astronauts healthy while on their mission and when they come back home. One of the benefits is if you are military, you apparently have to go fly on some of the jets so you can experience what your patients experience. As far as NASA goes, one of their aerospace docs told me it was 90% primary care, 5% pathology, and 5% aerospace specific medicine.