Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society

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:

SEPTEMBER 24-27, 2009:  NEW ORLEANS, LA 
Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA
Intercontinental, 444 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70130
Room Rate: $119.00 Single/Double per night
($30 each additional adult person, per roon, per night)
Rate will be honored three (3) days before/after the official meeting dates,
based on last room availablity of the hotel at the time the reservation is
made.
Check-in time is 4pm, check-out time is 12noon.
RESERVATIONS CALL: 800-445-6563 by August 31, 2009.