Aerospace Medicine

[Zethra]

is UTMB-Galveston the only place that has this program? Also is there anywhere I can find more info on the work environment and type of work in this specialty?

[CaribMD]

I have no idea how to answer this? If you are a premed this is a nonissue since the Medical school you go to has little to nothing to do what kind of medicine you will practice. Until residency its all the same at all the schools. SO worry on what school you can get into more then specialty, it is something a lot of premeds do, they worry about specialties not really understanding that all schools and even the first year of residency is almost the same. You have to learn to crawl before walking. You should not try to pick a school based on specialties, in the end the school picks you anyway.

[Vonsmack]

We had a professor who did his residency at UTMB in aerospace medicine, he was a cool guy who taught us our pulmonary pathophysiology. The way I understand it those that enter this specialty are either in the military or private sector. Military residencies are in San Antonio and Pensacola and these give direct care to the military. Private sector residencies are in Galveston and Wright state in Dayton, these guys can work with commercial airlines, NASA, or research. So very few spots open each year, I have no idea how competetive it is or what these residencies are looking for in candidates.

Check out http://www.asma.org

[kilgore_trout]

You can email Dr. Lisa Cain for information on the Aerospace Medicine Track at UTMB. Her email is ldcain@utmb.edu.