Medical TeamTraining
Senior docotors 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. Registered nurses employed by CareFlight are trained critical care clinicians.
All medical personnel are required to undergo a pre-employment fitness assessment and undertake a
Pre-hospital Trauma Course. For helicopter operations, continuing accreditation requires a fitness assessment every 90 days, three-monthly static winch currency training, six-monthly live helicopter rescue procedures and two-yearly helicopter underwater emergency training (HUET).
CareFlight doctors and nurses undergo an intensive orientation program which may include:
- 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 program, staff are required to work rostered shifts, review cases with specialists weekly and attend Quality Assurance meetings monthly, as well as attend regular education sessions on an ongoing basis.