1 - Self-Test questions Flashcards
What is the role of the AFSG within the AFMS?
The AFSG is the leader of the AFMS and establishes its medical service mission, making sure it supports
the Air Force mission.
List the five AFMS effects-based mission areas.
(1) Promoting and sustaining a medically ready force.
(2) Prevent illness and injury.
(3) Restore health.
(4) Optimize and sustain human performance.
(5) Systematize high reliability throughout the Aerospace & Operational Medicine Enterprise
Describe the prevent illness and injury effects-based mission area.
Preventive medicine activities ensure the force is available to accomplish the mission.
Health services forthis effect include identifying, assessing and controlling hazards from the full spectrum of health hazardsencountered in garrison or deployed environments.
It also includes communicating associated hazard risks
so commanders understand the potential outcomes of exposure, and providing solution sets for managing
hazards while continuing the mission.
Cite the two Air Force organization leaders and describe their individual responsibilities.
SECAF and the CSAF.
The SECAF is charged with policy and oversight of the department.
The CSAF is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping AF units to meet combatant commander requirements.
Cite the factors that influence the organizational structure of each MTF.
Mission, size, and capabilities of the organization.
List the 13 approved flights within an aerospace medicine squadron.
(1) Flight medicine.
(2) Missile medicine.
(3) Space medicine.
(4) Space and missile medicine.
(5) Health promotion
(6) Public health.
(7) Bioenvironmental engineering.
(8) Aerospace physiology.
(9) Aeromedical staging.
(10) Occupational medicine.
(11) Optometry.
(12) Hyperbaric medicine.
(13) Audiology.
List the five effects-based mission areas within the AOME.
(1) Promote and sustain a medically ready force.
(2) Prevent illness and injury.
(3) Restore health.
(4) Optimize and sustain human performance.
(5) Systematize high reliability through the AOME.
Occupational Medicine does?
Provides medical care to patients who enter, travel in, or leave the aeromedical evacuation system.
Health Promotion does?
Provides programs in nutrition and stress management.
Optometry does?
Manages the spectacle/gas mask inserts and warfighter/aviation corneal refractive surgery programs.
Audiology does?
Manages the hearing conservation and hearing loss prevention programs.
Flight Medicine does?
Provides clinical, occupational, and preventive medical care.
Aeromedical Staging does?
Provides human performance enhancement training.
Aerospace Physiology does?
Provides care and training for decompression sickness.
Public Health does?
Implements food safety and medical entomology programs.
