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48AX Aerospace Medicine Specialist/Flight Surgeon

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Overview

Aerospace Medicine Specialists and Flight Surgeons provide primary care to pilots and crew members who travel in air or space. They identify, prevent, and manage physiological responses caused by the stresses and conditions of exceptional environments.

Core Skills

  • Special-duty medical qualification and readiness examinations
  • Living and working environment health-hazard evaluation
  • Aerospace operational medicine program administration

Civilian Career Paths

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Preventive Medicine Physicians

Administering aerospace medicine programs, examining special-duty personnel, and directing environmental health-hazard evaluations transfer directly to aerospace and occupational prevention work.

How to prepare: Have a target employer assess your residency and specialty credentials against its preventive-medicine requirements. Civilian physician practice requires state medical licensure; verify your status with the relevant state medical board.

What the civilian work involves
  • Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
  • Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.
  • Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: AEROSPACE MEDICINE PHYSICIAN SPECIALIST (48AX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "AEROSPACE MEDICINE PHYSICIAN SPECIALIST"; normalized cached text lines 9563-9585; family-level section (48A4, 48A3, 48A1)

    Supports: Special-duty medical qualification and readiness examinations, Living and working environment health-hazard evaluation, Aerospace operational medicine program administration, Preventive Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1229.05)

  2. O*NET: Preventive Medicine Physicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Preventive Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1229.05)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Physicians and Surgeons

    [3] What They Do; Duties; How to Become One, Training and Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Preventive Medicine Physicians (O*NET 29-1229.05)

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