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RASOS Press Room

RASOS Civil Aviation Medical Examiner Course
(September-05-07)

The Barbados CAD training center hosted a RASOS civil aviation medical examiner course on August 25 and 26, 2007. While the classrooms of the BCAD training center are much more accustomed to seeing air traffic controllers, aviation security officers or airport personnel, the desks on that August weekend were filled with thirteen civil aviation medical examiners hailing from Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and St. Maarten. Readers in the know will note that St. Maarten is not a participant in RASOS but it is the nature of this region and of civil aviation that the examiner from St. Maarten is also an examiner for the ECCAA. The ICAO Annex 1 compliant course was presented by five Canadian experts.

The regional doctors were qualifying or re-qualifying for designation as civil aviation medical examiners for their respective national civil aviation personnel licensing authorities.

Transport Canada's Civil Aviation Medical Branch very kindly provided the instructional expertise as three of its four national civil aviation medical assessors, a very experienced aviation psychiatrist and an aviation cardiologist were present to provide the specialist instruction to the regional examiners. Transport Canada's generosity in providing this highly qualified technical team to assist its aviation partners in the Caribbean is gratefully acknowledged by RASOS and each of its participating authorities. RASOS acknowledges the usefulness of the technical assistance provided by Canada in the past in this region and looks forward to continuing its partnership in aviation safety with Transport Canada.

The course was a success by all accounts, including in the feedback received from the instructors.