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