Approved courses for Doctors

The Australian and New Zealand Hyperbaric Medicine Group 

Introductory Course in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine

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
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Accommodation information can be provided on request.

Royal Australian Navy Medical Officers’ Underwater Medicine Course 

Date: Second part of 2024 and 2025 dates to be confirmed. 

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 remains at AUD$1,355 (excl GST).

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
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