Doctor Training
Senior specialists employed by CareFlight work part-time in retrieval and must be clinically active in their chosen speciality. Registrars spend six months working full-time with CareFlight, for which they are accredited by the Critical Care Medical Colleges of Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine and/or Intensive Care.
All medical personnel are required to undergo a pre-employment fitness assessment and undertake a Pre-hospital Trauma Course. Continuing accreditation requires a fitness assessment every 90 days, three-monthly static winch currency training, six-monthly live helicopter rescue procedures and two-yearly HUET (helicopter underwater emergency training).
Registrars undergo an intensive two-week orientation program which includes:
- tutorials;
- ground training;
- winch training;
- in-flight training;
- safety, including cliff top and ocean edge safety;
- inter-hospital scenarios;
- HUET;
- Pre-hospital Trauma Course;
- ride-along missions.
Following successful completion of the programme, registrars are required to work four/five shifts per week, review cases with specialists weekly and attend Quality Assurance meetings monthly.
For further information on doctor training, please see Medical Structure and Organisation (PDF, 600KB).