Unit 1: USAF Medical Service Mission & Organization Flashcards
Enable medically fit forces
Provide expeditionary medics
Improve the health of all we serve to meet nation’s needs
AFMS mission
what are the tactical action plans to accomplish the AFMS mission?
Deliver the best medical capabilities to support winning today’s fight
Enhance full spectrum medical capabilities to support winning toay’s fight
Implement patient-centered care to sustain healthy and resilient Airmen/families
Advance medical capabilities through research and infrastructure recapitalization
Build interoperability and medical acquisition expertise
What are the three medical command levels you should be familiar with?
Surgeon General
Major command surgeon
Medical treatment facility commander
Is the head of the AFMS and is the medical staff advisor to the Secretary of the Air Force, Chief of Staff, USAF & Assistant Secretary of Defense
Surgeon General
Responsible for implementing the Surgeon General’s programs and policies
Major command surgeon
Responsible for directing all medical programs for a base or wing
MTF commander
To whom is the MTF commander responsible?
responsible to the base or wing commander
Medical groups normally consist of what four subordinate sqaudrons?
Medical Support
Medical Operations
Aerospace Medicine
Dental
Which AFI gives the areas of professional concern and the functions of each?
AFI 48-101, Aerospace Medicine Enterprise
Provide direct support to AF operations by promoting and sustaining force health, preventing injury and illness, restoring health, and sustaining human performance
Aerospace Medicine Enterprise (AME) mission
Six major Aerospace Medicine programs:
Flying, Operations, & Special Duty Program
Occupational & Environmental Health Program
Force Health Readiness Program
Community Health Program
Human Performance Sustainment Program
Emergency Response/Disaster Management Program
Name the five most common flights of the aeropsace medicine squadron
Aerospace and Operational Medicine
Health Promotion
Public Health
Optometry
Bioenvironmental Engineering
Provides primary care to flying and special operational duty personnel and their families
Aerospace and Operational Medicine Flight
Determines fitness for flight and special operational duties
Aerospace and Operational Medicine Flight
Acts as Human Systems Integration consultant to the wing and to air operations, space, weapons, and warfare centers
Aerospace and Operational Medicine Flight
Provides programs that encourage healthy lifestyles
Health Promotion Flight
Manages health and wellness centers
Health Promotion Flight
Recommends and implements programs to prevent disease, disability, morbidity, and death through effective use of population-base programs
Public Health
Conducts epidmiological surveillance and analysis of communicable, environmental, and occupational morbidity and mortality to establish and prioritize strategies for prevention and intervention
Public Health
Provide programs for both individuals and groups to clearly communicate risks and hazards in the workplace/environment & best practices to safeguard health
Public Health
Examines, diagnoses, treats and manages diseases and disorders of the visual system
Optometry Flight
Provides primary eye care and refractive services to flying and non-flying military personnel
Optometry Flight
Manages the spectacle/gas mask insert, contact lens, and warfighter aviation corneal refractive surgery programs
Optometry Flight
provides operational health risk assessment expertise to enhance commander decision making and health service support capabilities
BE Flight
Evaluates occupational workplaces through routine and special surveillance to ensure hazards are identified, assessed and controlled through engineering controls, administrative controls or personnel protective equipment
BE Flight
Identifies, evaluates, and recommends controls for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and physical occupational and environmental health threats
BE Flight
PH mission statement
preventing disease, disability, and premature death
encompasses the preventive medicine, communicable disease, epidemiology, medical entomology, food safety, and public health deployed/disaster relief programs
Community Health Management
This program evaluates hygiene practices and the usability of equipment in base facilities
Report findings and recommend corrective action through the MTF commander to the responsible agencies
Program also offers support to all base preventive medicine programs
Preventive Medicine Program
Methods of communicable disease control include:
immunization and testing for various communicable diseases
the study of how disease and injury occur in a population
Epidemiology
What are the two areas in medical entomology that PH is concerned with?
Pest/vector biology
Surveillance
To whom are significant epidemiological trends reported?
All health care providers through the Chief, Aeromedical Services
What two areas is PH responsible for under food safety?
Food inspection
Food sanitation
What duties does PH provide under the Occupational Health Program?
Supervisor and worker education
Fits some personal protective equipment
Performs shop visits
Conduct PHAs
The FDA falls under what agency?
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)
a scientifiic regulatory agency responsible for the safety of the nation’s domestically produced and imported foods, cosmetics, drugs, biologics, medical devices, and radiological products
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
mission is to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of our nation
US Public Health Service (USPHS)
Primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting public health activities in the US
Main focus is increasing support to local and state health departments, improving global health, decreasing leading causes of death, strengthening surveillance and epidemology, and reforming health policies
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
ensuring the nation’s commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products are safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged
US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
provides inspection services for fish, shellfish, and fishery products to the industry
US Department of Commerce (USDC)
provides regulations, guidance, and enforcement
OSHA
produces new scientific knowledge and practical solutions vital to reducing risks of injury and death
National Institute for Occupationa; Safety and Health (NIOSH)
responsible for designing and enforcing programs that guarantee the continued safety and purity of our environment
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
USDHHS divisions
FDA
USPHS
CDC
Food inspection programs:
USDA
USDC
Federal Occupational Safety and Health Agencies:
OSHA
NIOSH
EPA
What does the AF use to evaluate working environments at base-level industrial sites?
NIOSH standards
What is the purpose of the AF Inspection System (AFIS)?
To enable and strengthen commanders’ effectiveness and efficiency
To motivate and promote military discipline, improve unit performance, improve managerial excellence up & down the chain of command
To identify issues interfering with effectiveness, efficiency, compliance, discipline, readiness, performance, surety and management
any inspection conducted by a Wing on a subordinate agency
internal inspections
allow commanders to control the depth, scope, and frequency of inspections
internal inspections
any inspection conducted by authorities outside the inspected unit
external inspections
provide an independent accountability of readiness, economy, efficiency and state of discipline
validate and verify the internal inspection process
external inspections
What are the three major inspections that are provided through the AFIS
Management
Unit effectiveness
Commander’s inspection program
What are the categories of the five-tier rating system used on MIs, UEIs, and CCIPs?
Outstanding
Highly effective
Effective
Marginally effective
Ineffective
Out of the three main types of inspections, which are external inspections?
Management and Unit effectiveness
Conducted above the Wing level
Assesses the efficiency, effectiveness, economy, & discipline of the organization, activities, or programs within an organization
Management inspection
Validates and verifies a Wing’s Commander’s Inspection Program (CCIP) for accuracy, adequacy, and relevance
Unit effectiveness inspection
Inspection frequency:
24-30 months for AD
48-60 months for ANG
Unit effectiveness inspection
mandatory for Wings and inspects Wing-wide and subordinate unit effectiveness, as well as assessing cross-unit programs as directed by the Wing commander
The Commander’s Inspection Program
a means by which you can evaluate your work to see if you are performing to established standards
Self-inspections
Which computer generated document details manpower listing reflecting the distribution of manpower allocations into a limited structure of authorizations?
Unit Manning Document (UMD)
includes information such as the number of positions authorized, grade/rank, occupational series, AFSC, and security access requirements
UMD
describes personnel assigned to a unit and is commonly referred to as the alpha roster
Unit Personnel Management Roster (UPMR)
contains Privacy Act Information and is used by the Af Personnel Center (AFPC) to make permanent change of station (PCS) decisions
Unit Personnel Management Roster (UPMR)
What are the three types of manpower used by the AF to perform required work
Military personnel
In-service civillian employees
Contracted services
