The Australian and New Zealand Hyperbaric Medicine Group
Introductory Course in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine
Please note: This course is fully subscribed with a waiting list. If you are considering attending the course in 2026, dates will again be from mid to late February 2026 for two weeks.
Dates: 17-28 February 2025
Venue: Hougoumont Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia
Cost: AUD$3,200.00 (inclusive of GST) for two weeks.
Successful completion of this course will allow the doctor to perform Recreational and Occupational (as per AS/ NZS 2299.1) fitness for diving medicals and be listed for such on the SPUMS Diving Doctors List (provided that they continue to be a financial SPUMS member).
The course content includes:
- History of diving medicine and hyperbaric oxygen treatment
- Physics and physiology of diving and compressed gases
- Presentation, diagnosis and management of diving injuries
- Assessment of fitness to dive
- Visit to RFDS base for flying and diving workshop
- Accepted indications for hyperbaric oxygen treatment
- Hyperbaric oxygen evidence based medicine
- Wound management and transcutaneous oximetry
- In water rescue and management of a seriously ill diver
- Visit to HMAS Stirling
- Practical workshops
- Marine Envenomation
Contact for information:
Sam Swale, Course Administrator
Phone:+61-(0)8-6152-5222
Fax:+61-(0)8-6152-4943
Email:
Accommodation information can be provided on request.
Royal Australian Navy Medical Officers’ Underwater Medicine Course
Dates: 17-28 March 2025 and 13-24 October 2025
Venue: HMAS Penguin, Sydney
The MOUM course seeks to provide the medical practitioner with an understanding of the range of potential medical problems faced by divers. Emphasis is placed on the contraindications to diving and the diving medical assessment, together with the pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of common diving-related illnesses. The course includes scenario-based simulation focusing on the management of diving emergencies and workshops covering the key components of the diving medical.
Cost: The course cost is AUD$2,332 (excl GST) but is subject to change.
Successful completion of this course will allow the doctor to perform Recreational and Occupational (as per AS/ NZS 2299.1) fitness for diving medicals and be listed for such on the SPUMS Diving Doctors List (provided that they continue to be a financial SPUMS member).
For information and application forms contact:
Rajeev Karekar, for Officer in Charge,
Submarine and Underwater Medicine Unit
HMAS Penguin
Middle Head Rd, Mosman
NSW 2088, Australia
Phone: +61 (0)2-9647-5572
Fax: +61-(0)2-9647-511
Email:
Navy Medicine Operational Training Command - Naval Undersea Medical Institute
Undersea Medical Officer (UMO) and Undersea Medical Examiner (UME) Courses (CIN: B-6-A-2200)
The Undersea Medical Officer Candidate (UMOC) training is significantly changed for classes starting in July 2024, with two phases of training.
Phase One is approximately 11 weeks at the Naval Undersea Medical Institute (NUMI) located on Naval Submarine Base New London located in Groton, Connecticut. Phase one academic offerings include instruction on radiation health, physicals and waivers, operational medicine, health record administration, professional development, BLS, ACLS, damage control, firefighting, and submarine escape. This phase includes rigorous physical conditioning in preparation for dive school. Physical training entails approximately four hours of swimming, running, calisthenics, finning, and water confidence training per day. The goal of the physical training is for the student to excel in the diver Physical Screening Test (PST) and in dive school. UMOCs must pass the Diver PST to continue on to Phase Two. All students will be graduated as Undersea Medical Examiners at the end of Phase 1. Candidates who cannot pass the Diver PST or who demonstrate a lack of in-water ability will not be sent to Phase Two and will instead be detailed to Undersea Medicine billets that do not require diving medicine. UMEs have the possibility of later returning to dive training if certified to meet physical requirements.
Phase Two consists of nine weeks of dive and medical training at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center (NDSTC) in Panama City Beach, Florida. This course requires significant physical conditioning, especially during the first three weeks of training. Twice daily rigorous PT is conducted by the dive school training team. After completing pool week, students will receive training in advanced SCUBA diving, closed circuit re-breathing systems used by the navy SEAL teams (oxygen based) and EOD Teams (mixed gas based), as well as surface supplied systems. Students receive hands-on experience in hyperbaric chamber operations as well as extensive training in the Navy Recompression tables and diving medicine. Graduates are detailed to the fleet as UMOs.
For more information, contact our Undersea Medical Officer For more information, contact our Undersea Medical Officer Course Supervisor by email at
PREREQUISITES:
- Be a citizen of the United States.
- MUST BE A VOLUNTEER
- Pass all three parts of national boards (USMLE or COMLEX) before reporting to NUMI.
- Successfully completed medical or osteopathic degree plus at least one year of medical internship at an accredited medical training facility.
- Hold a state medical license or have applied for a state medical license.
- Hold Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) certification. Certification must remain valid throughout this course.
- Be able to meet minimum physical requirements per MILPERSMAN 1220-410
- Students must have a security clearance SECRET to attend the Undersea Medical Officer course.
- Have a full uniform sea bag to include: Service Dress Blue, Service Dress White ("choker whites" for men), Summer White, Khaki, NWU and appropriate outerwear. Physical training uniforms consist of short-sleeved white t-shirts, UDT shorts (issued by NUMI or bought at a local uniform store), navy PT shorts, navy blue sweatshirt and sweatpants.
- Be currently Dive Duty and Submarine Duty qualified. This requires a current, complete physical exam specifically designated for the purpose of Dive Duty and Submarine Duty (MANMED 15-102 & 106). Applicants will also need to meet the MANMED Section 3 Standards for Enlistment and Commissioning. Any disqualifying condition will require a waiver, even if one has previously been received for the same condition. The Submarine and Diving Duty physical examination must be properly documented on a form DD 2807-1 and form DD 2808 and signed by an Undersea Medical Officer.
- Pressure test (to pressure of 60 fsw for 10 minutes in a dry hyperbaric chamber (this may be completed at NUMI if facilities are not available prior to detachment from previous command). Pressure test date & results must be documented on a form NAVMED 6150/2, which must be complete on both sides and signed as either PQ or NPQ for Diving Duty by a UMO or DMO.
NAVMED 6150/2
- Physical requirements restrict pregnant service members from eligibility per OPNAVINST 6000.1 series
- For more info contact
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