Learning Path: Flight & Aviation Medicine

Reading list

1. NASA-STD-3001 overview clinical
   What you'll learn: How NASA crew health standards are organized and how they differ from FAA rules.
2. Standards quick reference clinical
   What you'll learn: The requirement IDs clinicians meet most often, with official links.
3. Commercial spaceflight participant screening clinical
   What you'll learn: FAA 2006 screening tiers, centrifuge data and red flags.
4. Radiation limits & monitoring clinical
   What you'll learn: Career and solar-storm limits, dosimetry and ALARA.
5. Exercise countermeasures clinical
   What you'll learn: Fitness floors in the standard and how crews try to meet them.
6. Space pharmacology & drug stability clinical
   What you'll learn: How medicines behave in flight and what is unsolved for Mars.
7. Pre-flight & post-flight clinic equipment
   What you'll learn: How to equip a clinic for spaceflight medical evaluations.
8. Risk & Gap Atlas research
   What you'll learn: NASA's human-system risks and open research gaps.
9. Launch & landing loads research
   What you'll learn: Acceleration and impact risks during launch and landing.
10. Case: motion sickness on a short orbital flight learn
    What you'll learn: Practice in-flight symptom management.
11. Case: kidney stone on a long mission learn
    What you'll learn: Practice remote, resource-limited decision-making.
12. Careers & training learn
    What you'll learn: Residencies, board certification and the AME designation.