Program Outline

One Year Clinical Fellowship

Orientation

  • 1 Week

  • Goals/Objectives:

    • Meet with UoA and SpaceX teams

    • Develop the year schedule

    • Identify potential research projects

SpaceX

  • 28 Weeks

  • Goals/Objectives:

    • Gain on-the-job training and experience at SpaceX

    • Experience will depend on current operations and needs

Trauma, Emergency, and Critical Care nursing

  • 2 Weeks

  • Goals/Objectives:

    • Gain exposure to the skills and challenges of bedside trauma, emergency, and critical care nursing

    • Assess the challenges in delivering emergency nursing care in austere environments

Clinical Ultrasound

  • 2 Weeks

  • Goals/Objectives:

    • Gain clinical full body ultrasound skills

    • Assess how ultrasound, the only imaging modality in space, can be applied to deep space surgical and critical care

Pre-Hospital Medicine

  • 1 Week

  • Goals/Objectives:

    • Gain exposure to the pre-hospital medical environment

    • Respond to pre-hospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) calls

    • Assess the trade space between mass, volume, power, and medical capability in ambulance-based transport

Aeromedical Transport

  • 1 Week

  • Goals/Objectives:

    • Gain exposure to the civilian aeromedical transport environment

    • Respond to aeromedical EMS and interhospital transfers

    • Assess the trade space between mass, volume, power, and medical capability in flight-based transport

Trauma and Emergency General Surgery, Orthopedic Trauma, and Anesthesia

  • 4 Weeks

  • Goals/Objectives:

    • Gain exposure to trauma, orthopedic trauma, airway management, and regional blocks

    • Assess how surgical practices will need to adapt to the deep space environment, and how tools and technologies developed for space flight can benefit terrestrial rural and global surgery

  • These rotations are adjustable/replaceable based on the fellow's previous training experience

Austere Surgery Training and Low Resource Surgery

  • 5 Weeks

  • Goals/Objectives:

    • Gain exposure to the tools and techniques used in austere surgery

    • Practice these techniques in rural or global surgical settings

    • Assess how tools and techniques used in terrestrial austere surgical environments could be adapted to the deep space environment

Hyperbarics

  • 1 Week

  • Goals/Objectives:

    • Understand hyperbaric physics and physiology, and gain exposure to current hyperbaric treatment protocols

      • Requires medical clearance prior to participation

ASMA Annual Conference

  • 1 Week

  • Goals/Objectives:

    • Participate and network at the annual AsMA conference