Learning Path: Primary Care & General Clinicians

Reading list

1. Space Medicine 101 learn
   What you'll learn: The five hazards in plain language, and why mission length matters.
2. Clinician quick-start clinical
   What you'll learn: The three questions to ask any space traveler, and what to check in the first days after landing.
3. Commercial spaceflight participant screening clinical
   What you'll learn: What the FAA does and does not require, your role versus the operator flight surgeon, and how to word a letter.
4. Orthostatic intolerance after landing clinical
   What you'll learn: Why returning travelers feel faint on standing and how to assess and treat it.
5. Bone loss: countermeasures and follow-up clinical
   What you'll learn: How fast bone is lost, how slowly it returns, and what to check in clinic.
6. Kidney stone risk clinical
   What you'll learn: Why stone risk rises in flight and stays higher for about a year after return.
7. SANS: clinical monitoring clinical
   What you'll learn: The eye changes of long flights, and which findings need referral.
8. Behavioral health clinical
   What you'll learn: Sleep, mood and stress before, during and after flight.
9. Postflight recovery & long-term surveillance clinical
   What you'll learn: The recovery timeline and lifelong follow-up.
10. Case: preflight screening with hypertension learn
    What you'll learn: Practice the "optimize, document, communicate" approach.
11. Question bank learn
    What you'll learn: Check what you learned.