Training

Doctors

Diving Medical Officers' Course

IUHM runs a 2-week course for Military Medical Officers on an annual basis. On completion of training, military MOs will have the knowledge and expertise to treat diving illnesses and to conduct fitness-to-dive medical examinations. The course is run according to international standards and certification, and includes 62 hours of lectures, hands-on chamber practicals and diving.

Since 2002, Dr Carl Edmonds (a renown figure in diving medicine) has been directing and lecturing a significant proportion of the course together with local lecturers and experts.

Interested medical officers of the Malaysian Armed Forces may contact IUHM for registration, or visit the DMO Course website.

At present, this course is not open to civilian doctors.

Postgraduate Attachment

Two local Universities collaborate with IUHM in training postgrduates reading Occupational Health for their Masters on an annual basis. The short attachment allows students to understand the health risks of occupational diving and methods of controlling the risk.

Postgraduate attachment from foreign Universities are conducted on request, on a case-by-case basis.

Interested postgraduates please visit our attachment request guide.

Medical Students' Electives

Medical students electives are aimed at providing them with basic diving and hyperbaric medicine knowledge. Activities includes lectures, ward rounds, clinics, guidance on clinical research and surveys, chamber practicals, and visits to operational units.

Interested medical students please visit our attachment request guide.

Paramedics and Nurses

Diving Medical Assistants' Course

This 8-week course aims to train paramedics and nurses to allow them to perform duties of a diving medical assistant, which include:

• Run a hyperbaric chamber for the treatment of diving illnesses and clinical hyperbaric cases, both as chamber operators and as an inside tender
• Diagnose and manage diving injuries in hospital and in remote areas
• Assist Diving Medical Officers in conducting fitness to dive medical examinations
• Manage a chamber operating team

Course activities includes lectures, chamber practicals, clinical case management, objective structured clinical evaluations and diving practicals.

Divers

Basic Life Support for Divers

IUHM runs 3-day BLS courses specially aimed at military divers. Three such courses are run annually at KD Duyong, the RMN Diving Centre.

Diving First Aid

Military divers who are trined in Basic Life Support may progress to be trained in Diving First Aid. This course includes instructions in Oxygen First Aid, Automated External Defibrillators and Transfer Under Pressure.