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3 minute guide to annual AAME appraisal

General advice

  • Use an approved electronic format. Please see our website
  • You should confirm that your professional activity is mainly Aviation related and there is no identifiable Designated Body (such as NHSE or the Faculty of Occupational Medicine). This qualifies for the AAME’s GMC Suitable Person service. In other words, if you cannot get an understanding review elsewhere
  • Describe and evidence your personal effort: reflection, learning and changes in Practice (certificates not needed). Especially for CPD, QIA and complaints
  • Please contact your appraiser in good time with questions. Send your portfolio 3 weeks (or a bare courtesy of 2 weeks) before the appraisal
  • Remember your appraiser is interested in what you think and how you intend to develop your work

Specific requirements (minimums) – for further Pandemic concessions talk to your Appraiser

  • Commentary on learning outcomes from last year’s PDP
  • 20 CPD (use CAA Learning Pool). 1 credit = 1 hour of learning demonstrated by a brief reflective note on lessons learned. Described outcomes generates QIA-CPD credit. Certificates not needed.
  • Quality improvement activities. g. audits, Incidents, Case Reviews / Management – especially when it results in improved practice. Capture representative activities
  • Colleague and patient-client feedback. Share accounts of complaints, compliments, criticisms or suggestions. And learning. Formal surveys once in each 5-year revalidation cycle.
  • Ideas for 3 PDP objectives
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AAME 41st Annual Scientific Meeting (6 March 2021)

Last year’s Scientific Meeting seems a lifetime ago given the extraordinary events of the last twelve months and the devastation that Covid-19 has wrought on the aviation industry and our pilot colleagues. 
 
As a result, we carefully considered the merits of postponing the meeting until later in the year, but given the ongoing uncertainty in how the pandemic may continue to unfold, decided that an online meeting would be a prudent move. We now have great pleasure in inviting you to the Association of Aviation Medical Examiners’ Annual Scientific Meeting to be held virtually on Saturday 6th March 2021, with the invaluable and ongoing administrative assistance of 3D Performance.

Click here to book your place for the AAME 41st Annual Scientific Meeting
 

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AAME online membership System 2020-2021

Please click here to access the AAME online membership system for membership registration for the period of 1st June 2020 – 31 May 2021.

You are able to pay for membership fees and Suitable Person/Appraisal service here. If you have any problems registering, please contact Administration in the first instance at aame@3dperformance.co.uk

We look forward to welcoming you to the Association of Aeromedical Examiners!

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CAA Exemption Notice

The CAA have issued an updated Exemption Notice ORS4 No 1383, dated 28th April 2020, this supersedes the previous Exemption Notice ORS4 No 1354. 
We have asked whether pilots now need to carry the updated ORS4 No1383 or whether the previous version (ORS4 No1354) will suffice. We will update you when we have received a response; please keep an eye on the website for updates. 
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MSRP update

February 2020 update  
Dear AME community,
In our last update we mentioned some of the challenges we have faced especially in relation to the certification module. The project team are continuing to work closely with RioMed in testing the product and resolving issues. Whilst we are pleased to say we are making progress, this has been slower than anticipated and we are still in the System Verification Testing phase. Detailed work is in progress on the MARS data mapping and migration plans and in finalising the procedures for providing access to Cellma for applicants and non-CAA users via the CAA Portal. The communications, business change and training plans are being finalised and we have started a programme of engagement with key external stakeholders including commercial airlines and helicopter operators, Air Traffic Control providers, General Aviation organisations and trades unions. Cellma will only be launched once we are satisfied that we can provide a stable product that is fit for purpose. Please find the Medical System Replacement Project’s latest activities and progress report below: 

Activities in progress:
Revision of project delivery plans with an anticipated launch in Q3 2020 Continuation of System Verification testing (SVT), and preparations for User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Instructions on how and when non-CAA users (AMEs, AME staff and external cardiologists) should apply for a CAA portal account and request user access to Cellma will be communicated when the systems are ready and CAA staff have received any necessary training
Roll-out of the communications plans, with current focus on key large external stakeholders
Development of the training programme and guidance materials
Upcoming activities:
Once SVT testing is completed and we are satisfied that the functional requirements have been met, the CAA project team will recommence User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
AMEs who previously undertook UAT training will be invited to participate again.
We will provide as much notice as possible as to when this will take place, as well as the input that will be required
Volunteer Pilot and ATCO applicants will also be involved in UAT for their feedback on the user-experience without specific system training.
The team will be in touch with further updates and actions as required. 

Kind regards,

Medical System Replacement Project Team
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AAME 40th Annual Scientific Meeting (6 – 8 Mar 20)

We have great pleasure in inviting you to the Association of Aviation Medical Examiners’ 40th Annual Scientific Meeting to be held over the weekend of 6-8thMarch 2020.

As this is our 40thAnniversary as an Association, we were keen to hold the meeting at a location with a strong aviation link, and the rich aerospace history of the city of Bristol fitted that bill. The conference will be held at Aerospace Bristol, overlooking the old Filton Airfield, in a comfortable lecture theatre located just off the museum’s Concorde Hall. 

The conference hotel and 40th Anniversary celebration Gala Dinner will be held at the Bristol Marriot Royal, located on College Green in the centre of Bristol.

 
 
 
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BREXIT – AMEs can continue issuing EASA certificates

Please note the content of this email from Stuart Mitchell

From: Mitchell Stuart 

Subject: RE: UK AMEs and EASA certs during Brexit transition period

Date: 31 January 2020 at 12:19:53 GMT

To: Helen Hoar 

Dear Helen,

I am told by our Corp Comms Department that the UK CAA website will be updated later today.

In short, the UK remains in the EASA system of mutual acceptance of AME/AeMC Authorisations and Medical Certificates at least until the end of the transition period.

Kind regards,

Stuart

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AME Case Referral Form (v5)

Dear AME Colleague

Please excuse the ‘flurry’ of e-mails regarding the referral form. You have provided us with further very useful feedback on the updated form and we are trying to accommodate the requests we have received from you. We hope this will help make it easier to use and to address restrictions you were coming across when trying to send large numbers of documents.

We have now published a Word version of the referral on the CAA website (see attached). If you wish to use this version of the referral form then convert it to pdf format before sending it to us. Alternatively, you can copy and paste the referral form from the Word version onto an email and refer a case to us in this way.

Kind regards

Dr Ewan Hutchison

Head of Medical Assessment

Safety and Airspace Regulation Group

UK Civil Aviation Authority

AME Case Referral Form v 5.0 January 2020 (PDF)

AME Case Referral Form v 5.0 January 2020 (word)