Requirements Anaylsis and Prototype of a Desktop Flight Surgeon's Assistant
Abstract
U.S. Air Force flight surgeons are typically young, inexperienced physicians with limited training in areas where they assume the greatest responsibility. These areas include public health, preventive medicine, occupational medicine, aerospace medicine, travel medicine, emergency medicine, readiness planning, and a range of administrative competencies unique to the Air Force, aerospace medicine community, and local organizations. When an experienced supervisor is present, he or she may be unavailable to adequately mentor and train the junior flight surgeon, or may lack the specific knowledge themselves. This results in an inefficient, trial and error, reinventing the wheel approach to getting the job done for many junior flight surgeons. With the advent of the information age and the exponentially expanding volumes of rapidly changing, instantly accessible data on the Internet, even experienced flight surgeons find it difficult to keep up with the most current information. Some sources exist in the form of books, web sites, and computer software of various types, but most of these are limited in scope, incomplete, poorly organized, or, in the case of the fixed media, become rapidly outdated. Finding, organizing, and maintaining appropriate, current reference materials are tedious and unending tasks. For these reasons, it would be useful to have a desktop program to assist flight surgeons in rapidly accessing the specific information necessary for them to perform their duties in an efficient manner.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 22, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA381415
Entities
People
- Douglas M. Rouse
Organizations
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio