Overview
Airport services; airline aviation medicine; passenger cabin safety; flight attendant health; airline catering; alcohol and drug issues in aviation; public health aspects of airline travel; traveller health; aeromedical transport systems.
The Master of Aviation Medicine is the gold standard for doctors wanting to become fully engaged in aviation medicine.
About this paper
| Paper title | Airport and Travel Health |
|---|---|
| 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 713
- 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
- Medical Aspects of Air Traffic Control and Airport Services
- Airline Aviation Medicine
- Passenger Cabin Safety
- The Health of Flight Attendants
- Food Hygiene and Airline Catering
- Alcohol and Drug Issues in Aviation
- Public Health Aspects of Airline Travel
- Traveller Health
- Aeromedical Transport Systems
- Teaching Arrangements
This Distance Learning paper is taught remotely.
It is taught in odd years in the first 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, Scholarship, 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
Medical Aspects of Air Traffic Control and Airport Services
Airline Aviation Medicine; Passenger Cabin Safety
The Health of Flight Attendants
Food Hygiene and Airline Catering
Alcohol and Drug Issues in Aviation
Public Health Aspects of Airline Travel
Traveller Health
Aeromedical Transport Systems
Overview
Airport services; airline aviation medicine; passenger cabin safety; flight attendant health; airline catering; alcohol and drug issues in aviation; public health aspects of airline travel; traveller health; aeromedical transport systems.
The Master of Aviation Medicine is the gold standard for doctors wanting to become fully engaged in aviation medicine.
About this paper
| Paper title | Airport and Travel Health |
|---|---|
| Subject | Aviation Medicine |
| EFTS | 0.25 |
| Points | 30 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 1 (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 713
- 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
- Medical Aspects of Air Traffic Control and Airport Services
- Airline Aviation Medicine
- Passenger Cabin Safety
- The Health of Flight Attendants
- Food Hygiene and Airline Catering
- Alcohol and Drug Issues in Aviation
- Public Health Aspects of Airline Travel
- Traveller Health
- Aeromedical Transport Systems
- Teaching Arrangements
This Distance Learning paper is taught remotely.
It is taught in odd years in the first semester.
- Textbooks
- Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine 6th Edition (Ed. David Gradwell & Elizabeth Wilkinson 2024 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, 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
Medical Aspects of Air Traffic Control and Airport Services
Airline Aviation Medicine; Passenger Cabin Safety
The Health of Flight Attendants
Food Hygiene and Airline Catering
Alcohol and Drug Issues in Aviation
Public Health Aspects of Airline Travel
Traveller Health
Aeromedical Transport Systems