Medical Assessment of Fitness for Diving
An Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Sponsored Four-Day Course
This is a course taught by physicians for physicians. A physical examination of a commercial diver, a diver candidate, a public safety diver, or a recreational diver is significantly more complicated than a routine physical. This is a course designed to educate physicians about those unique intricacies whether that be for initial physical examinations or return to work physicals. It has been said by competent authority that "This is a course that every physician should attend."
In addition to learning about the requirements for conducting a diving physical examination, we have a lawyer on our faculty who expounds on the legal ramifications of certifying a person to dive and what happens (and who is responsible) if and/or when that diver suffers decompression illness, gas embolism, or is in an accident on the job. Even though this is a course for physicians, we know that a significant number of Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners perform physical examinations for divers (under the supervision of a physician)...because of this, they, too, may enroll in this course. However, due to regulatory issues, neither PA's nor NP's can be certified as are the physician attendees
Course Cost: $850.00
A Four-Day Course For Physicians Only
----Attendees do not need to be a diver to attend ----
Course Organizer: John J. Wassel, M.D.
See course Dates Below
Registration: ONLINE Word PDF
Upon satisfactory completion of this course, the attendee will be listed by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society as an Approved Diving Medical Examiner. After three years the physician will be required to complete a fourteen-hour (2 day) course in order to remain on UHMS listing of approved examiners. Moreover, the UHMS will be working to gain approval of this course by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) of the United Kingdom.
The re-certification course might be offered concurrently, separately, or as a distant learning on-line CME program.
Course Dates:
APRIL 19-22, 2009: ATHENS, GREECE (more information at later date)
SEPTEMBER 24-27, 2009: SANDY HOOK, NJ (more information at later date)
REGISTER ONLINE NOW FOR ANY OF THESE DATES:
https://www.regonline.com/Fitness_to_Dive
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Faculty:
John J. Wassel, M.D., Medical Director, Hyperbaric and Dive Medicine Northeast Medical
Center, 200 Medical Park Drive, Suite 220, Concord, North Carolina, 28025
Phone: (704) 721-3574; Fax: (704) 721-3630; Email: wassdive@yahoo.com
J. Nicholas Vandemoer, M.D., Hyannis Ear, Nose, and Throat Association,
68 Camp Street, Hyannis, MA 02601
Phone: (508) 775-7026; Fax: (508) 771-0499; Email: vandemoer@comcast.net
Keith Van Meter, MD, LSU Section of Emergency Medicine, Hyperbaric Medicine Division,
17 Carriage Ln., New Orleans, LA 70114
Phone: (504) 366-7638; Fax: (504) 366-1029; Email: kvanmeter@aol.com
Bobby J. Delise, Delise & Hall, 7924 Maple Street, New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: (504) 836-8000; 800-DIVER-55; Fax: (504) 836-8020; Email: bdelise@dahlaw.com
Don Chandler, 4335 Camp Kaufman Drive, Huntingtown, MD 20639
Phone: (240) 447-4928; Email: donchandler@uhms.org
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