Curriculum
Year 1
- 6 months ER
- 4 months SpaceX
- 1 month Space Medicine Research Rotation
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Anesthesia
- Interventional radiology
- Toxicology
- Aerospace engineering
- 3 weeks vacation
Year 2
- 6 months ER
- 4 months SpaceX
- General surgery
- Aerospace engineering
- 3 weeks vacation
Procedures
General surgery
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomies
- Laparoscopic appendectomies
Interventional radiology
- Ultrasound-guided percutaneous nephrostomies
- Ultrasound-guided percutaneous cholecystotomies
Dental
- Dental cleanings
- Carries
- Fractures
- Avulsions
- Extractions
Anesthesia
- Regional anesthesia
Didactics
- 2 hour long didactics held on a bi-weekly basis
- Didactics will include lectures on space medicine and guest speakers
- Guiding textbook will be Barratt’s Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight, 2nd edition
Aerospace Engineering Curriculum
- Systems engineering
- Environmental control
- Life support systems
- Rocket equation
- Orbital mechanics