Overview
Medical investigation of aircraft accidents; short duration acceleration; noise, vibration and communication; survival and rescue; fatigue risk management; human performance; ergonomics and work performance; aviation toxicology; health promotion.
The Master of Aviation Medicine is the gold standard for doctors wanting to become fully engaged in aviation medicine.
About this paper
| Paper title | Human Performance |
|---|---|
| Subject | Aviation Medicine |
| EFTS | 0.25 |
| Points | 30 points |
| Teaching period | Not offered in 2026 (Distance learning) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $3,486.75 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Restriction
- AVME 712
- Limited to
- MAvMed, MHealSc
- Eligibility
Healthcare professionals currently employed, or interested in work, in the aviation medicine industry.
If you have not already done so, please contact the department for course advice before selecting your programme, oamu@otago.ac.nz.
- Contact
- OAMU@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
- View more information on the Department of Occupational and Aviation Medicine Unit's website
- Teaching staff
Course Director: David Fitzgerald
- Paper Structure
- Aviation Pathology and Medical Investigation of Aircraft Accidents
- Short-Term Acceleration and Aircrew Flying Clothing
- Education and Training for Commercial Flight Crew
- Noise, Vibration and Communication
- Thermal Physiology, Rescue and Survival
- Fatigue Risk Management in Aviation
- Human Performance in Aviation
- Aviation Toxicology Health Promotion
- Teaching Arrangements
This Distance Learning paper is taught remotely.
It is taught in odd years in the second semester.
- Textbooks
Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine 5th Edition
Ed. David Gradwell & David J Rainford 2016 CRC Press
ISBN 9781444179941(Available as Hardback or eBook)
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork, global perspective, lifelong learning, scholarship, communication, critical thinking, self-motivation, teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
The learning outcomes of this paper will coincide with the modules taught; these modules are
- Aviation Pathology and Medical Investigation of Aircraft Accidents
- Short-Term Acceleration and Aircrew Flying Clothing
- Education and Training for Commercial Flight Crew
- Noise, Vibration and Communication
- Thermal Physiology, Rescue and Survival
- Fatigue Risk Management in Aviation
- Human Performance in Aviation
- Aviation Toxicology
- Health Promotion
Overview
Medical investigation of aircraft accidents; short duration acceleration; noise, vibration and communication; survival and rescue; fatigue risk management; human performance; ergonomics and work performance; aviation toxicology; health promotion.
The Master of Aviation Medicine is the gold standard for doctors wanting to become fully engaged in aviation medicine.
About this paper
| Paper title | Human Performance |
|---|---|
| Subject | Aviation Medicine |
| EFTS | 0.25 |
| Points | 30 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 2 (Distance learning) |
| Delivery mode | The Distance Learning offering of this paper is taught and assessed remotely |
| Domestic Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for 2027 have not yet been set |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Restriction
- AVME 712
- Limited to
- MAvMed, MHealSc
- Eligibility
Healthcare professionals currently employed, or interested in work, in the aviation medicine industry.
If you have not already done so, please contact the department for course advice before selecting your programme, oamu@otago.ac.nz.
- Contact
- OAMU@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
View more information on the Department of Occupational and Aviation Medicine Unit's website.
- Teaching staff
Course Director: Dr David Fitzgerald
- Paper Structure
- Aviation Pathology and Medical Investigation of Aircraft Accidents
- Short-Term Acceleration and Aircrew Flying Clothing
- Education and Training for Commercial Flight Crew
- Noise, Vibration and Communication
- Thermal Physiology, Rescue and Survival
- Fatigue Risk Management in Aviation
- Human Performance in Aviation
- Aviation Toxicology Health Promotion
- Teaching Arrangements
This distance learning paper is taught remotely.
It is taught in odd years in the second semester.
- Textbooks
David P. Gradwell and Elizabeth Wilkinson (Eds.). (2024). Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine (6th ed.). CRC Press.
(Available as hardback or ebook)
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
The learning outcomes of this paper will coincide with the modules taught; these modules are
- Aviation Pathology and Medical Investigation of Aircraft Accidents
- Short-Term Acceleration and Aircrew Flying Clothing
- Education and Training for Commercial Flight Crew
- Noise, Vibration and Communication
- Thermal Physiology, Rescue and Survival
- Fatigue Risk Management in Aviation
- Human Performance in Aviation
- Aviation Toxicology
- Health Promotion